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'''Rupert Taylor''' (born 1958), Professor of Political Studies, formerly Head of the Department of Political Studies at the ], ], from 1987 to 2013. He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a ] degree in ] at the ] in 1980, followed by an ] at the ] in 1981 and a ] in ] at Kent, completed in 1986. He was formerly a ] in the Department of Political Science at the ] in ], ] in the Department of Political Science at ] and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Politics, ]. '''Rupert Taylor''' (born 1958), is a professor of political studies and former head of the Department of Political Studies at the ], ], from 1987 to 2013.
He was educated at the progressive independent ] in England and completed a BA degree in ] at the ] in 1980, followed by an MSc at the ] (1981) and a PhD in sociology at Kent, (1986). He was formerly a ] in the Department of Political Science at the ] in ], ] in the Department of Political Science at ] and a visiting research fellow in the School of Politics, ].


His publications include articles in ''African Affairs'', '']'', ''Peace and Change'', '']'', ''Race and Class'', ''The Round Table'', and '']''. He has served as editor of ''Politikon'' and ''Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations''. Publications include articles in ''African Affairs'', '']'', ''Peace and Change'', '']'', ''Race and Class'', ''The Round Table'', and '']''. He was editor of ''Politikon'' and ''Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations''.

Rupert Taylor is currently a “B” rated National Research Foundation scholar (that is one deemed to have an international reputation). He is one of few internationally recognized social scientists who have worked at Wits University, and many of Rupert Taylor's publications can be accessed at https://independent.academia.edu/RupertTaylor


Rupert Taylor is a "B" rated National Research Foundation scholar.


==Early career== ==Early career==
⚫ As a Masters student at the London School of Economics Taylor achieved the highest distinction grade for the degree. His doctoral dissertation highlighted the problems confronting Queen's University Belfast in trying to maintain a liberal position in a deeply divided society and helped initiate the reform of sectarian employment practices in higher education in Northern Ireland. In 1984 his research findings were reported in the British and Irish media, and stimulated a Fair Employment Agency enquiry that resulted in new employment equity guidelines. Taylor's doctoral research was acknowledged in John Whyte's ''Interpreting Northern Ireland'' (Oxford University Press, 1990).

⚫ As a Masters student at the London School of Economics in 1981, Taylor achieved the highest overall distinction grade for the degree. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Kent highlighted the problems confronting Queen’s University Belfast in trying to maintain a liberal position in a deeply-divided society and helped initiate the reform of sectarian employment practices in higher education in Northern Ireland. In 1984 his research findings were reported in the British and Irish media, and helped lead to a government enquiry through the Fair Employment Agency that resulted in new employment equity guidelines. Taylor’s doctoral research was acknowledged in John Whyte’s now-classic study ''Interpreting Northern Ireland'' (Oxford University Press, 1990).


==Consociationalism== ==Consociationalism==
⚫ Taylor's research interests include ], transitions to democracy and ]. He has written widely about ] and the ]. He has been critical of ] as a strategy of ].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Belfast Agreement and the politics of consociationalism: A critique|last=Taylor|first=Rupert|journal=The Political Quarterly|volume=77|issue=2|pages=217–226|year=2006|doi=10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00764.x}}</ref>


⚫ Whilst at the New School for Research in New York (1993–94), Taylor developed a deeper critique of the way in which political science has dealt with race and ethnicity (expounded in the Ethnic and Racial Studies award-winning paper). This led him to propose a social transformation theory as a compelling way to bring about democratic peace in societies marked by racial and ethnic division – see his "Northern Ireland: Consociation or Social Transformation" chapter in John McGarry's ''Northern Ireland and the Divided World'' (Oxford University Press, 2001). Taylor's position on consociationalism is widely acknowledged in the political science literature on the Northern Ireland conflict and the South African transition from apartheid to democracy, a position consolidated with the recent publication of the edited volume on Consociational Theory (Routledge, 2009).
⚫ Taylor's research interests include ], transitions to democracy and ]. He has written widely about ] and the ]. He has been critical of ] as a strategy of ].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00764.x|title=The Belfast Agreement and the politics of consociationalism: A critique|last=Taylor|first=Rupert|journal=The Political Quarterly|volume=77|issue=2|pages=217–226|year=2006|doi=10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00764.x|format=abstract}}</ref> His scholarly career has centered around engagement with consociational theory. His third-year undergraduate dissertation on the topic with John Burton was awarded first class. Through contact with ] in Johannesburg in the late 1980s, he engaged in a scholarly debate over the prospects for consociational democracy in South Africa – in particular through interrogating the meaning of ethnicity in consociational theory and through comparison with Northern Ireland.


⚫ Taylor participated in a two-year international study of peace and conflict organisations in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. This study was conducted in collaboration with the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), involved academics from Princeton University, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, University of Ulster and Bethlehem University, and was presented at the ISTR conference in Geneva in 1998. This led to the publication of Gidron, Katz, and Hasenfeld (eds), ''Mobilizing for Peace'' (Oxford University Press, 2002). Taylor authored the chapter on South Africa. This book won the Virginia Hodgkinson Independent Sector research prize (2003).
⚫ Whilst a visiting research scholar at the New School for Research in New York (1993–94), Taylor developed – through participating in debates with Charles Tilly, Arthur Vidich, Ira Katznelson, Anthony Marx, amongst others – a deeper critique of the way in which political science has dealt with race and ethnicity (as expounded in the Ethnic and Racial Studies award winning paper). This led him to develop further intellectual engagement with consociational scholars and to propose a social transformation theory as a more compelling way to bring about democratic peace in societies marked by racial and ethnic division – as expounded in his "Northern Ireland: Consociation or Social Transformation" chapter in John McGarry’s ''Northern Ireland and the Divided World'' (Oxford University Press, 2001). Taylor’s position on consociationalism is widely acknowledged in the political science literature on the Northern Ireland conflict and the South African transition from apartheid to democracy, a position consolidated with the recent publication of the edited volume on Consociational Theory (Routledge, 2009).

⚫ Along with Mark Shaw, Taylor was selected in 1996 to participate in a two-year international study of peace and conflict organizations in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. This research programme, funded by the Apsen Institute, and was conducted in collaboration with the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR). This research involved academics from Princeton University, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, University of Ulster and Bethlehem University, and was collectively presented at the ISTR bi-annual conference at the University of Geneva in 1998, resulting in the publication of Benjamin Gidron, Stanley N. Katz, and Yeheskel Hasenfeld (eds), ''Mobilizing for Peace'' (Oxford University Press, 2002). Taylor authored the chapter on South Africa. This book was the winner of the Virginia Hodgkinson Independent Sector research prize (2003).


==South Africa== ==South Africa==
⚫ Taylor's peer-reviewed papers on the causes of political violence in South Africa have been referred to in many international publications. One such paper, published in African Affairs (2002), examines the structural nature of post-apartheid political violence in KwaZulu-Natal. Another is the earlier Race and Class paper (1991) on township political violence. In ''The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Wilson wrote that “Rupert Taylor came up with sophisticated theories of apartheid violence.” Taylor wrote a number of papers on ] in South Africa, and along with Orkin wrote a substantial chapter on the racialisation of social scientific research on South Africa that attracted a scholarly response in the ''South African Sociological Review''. Taylor has published two well-cited papers with Habib (Vice-Chancellor of Wits University) on opposition politics and the state of the South African nonprofit sector.

⚫ Taylor’s peer-reviewed papers on the causes of political violence in South Africa have been referred to in many international publications. One such paper, published in African Affairs (2002), examines the structural nature of political violence in KwaZulu-Natal in the post-apartheid years. and another is the earlier Race and Class paper (1991) on township political violence. In his book ''The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Richard Wilson wrote that “Rupert Taylor came up with sophisticated theories of apartheid violence.” Taylor has made a contribution to South African electoral studies, particularly through questioning the veracity of the dominant “racial census” approach to understanding voting behaviour in the 1994 and 1999 elections. He wrote a number of papers on non-racialism in South Africa, and along with Mark Orkin (former executive director of the Human Sciences Research Council) wrote a substantial chapter on the racialization of social scientific research on South Africa that attracted a scholarly response in the ''South African Sociological Review''. Taylor has published two well-cited papers with Adam Habib (later appointed Vice-Chancellor of Wits University) on opposition politics and the state of the South African nonprofit sector.


==Editor of Voluntas== ==Editor of Voluntas==
⚫ In 2000 Taylor was appointed editor of the ISTR journal ''Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations''. As editor, he took the journal to Springer, a new major international publisher. As a result of Taylor's editorial direction the global academic visibility of ''Voluntas'' dramatically increased. It is now an ISA-rated journal and the leading journal focusing on the scholarly study of the third sector. Taylor served as editor until 2009 and compiled an edited volume on Third Sector Research (Springer, 2010).


⚫ ==Dismissal from Wits University==
⚫ In 2000 Taylor was appointed editor of the ISTR journal ''Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations''. As editor, he was responsible for taking the journal to Springer, a new major international publisher. As a result of Taylor’s editorial direction – as through holding international symposia and through commissioning high-profile special issues – the global academic visibility of ''Voluntas'' dramatically increased. It is now an ISA-rated journal and the leading journal internationally to focus on the scholarly study of the third sector. Taylor served as editor until 2009 and initiated and compiled an edited volume on Third Sector Research (Springer, 2010).
Taylor was placed on special leave by Wits University in 2013 following allegations of sexual harassment,<ref name="sabc">{{cite news |url= http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/a7a15c004f5cdcdabc12bf1e5d06aea0/Wits-professor-accused-of-sexual-harassment-put-on-leave--20130423 |title= Wits professor accused of sexual harassment put on leave |publisher= ] |date= 23 April 2013 |accessdate= 2 November 2013 |work= sabc.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191730/http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/a7a15c004f5cdcdabc12bf1e5d06aea0/Wits-professor-accused-of-sexual-harassment-put-on-leave--20130423 |archive-date= 29 October 2013 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name="citypress">{{cite news |url= http://www.citypress.co.za/news/wits-prof-accused-of-sexual-harassment-placed-on-special-leave/ |title= Wits prof accused of sexual harassment placed on special leave |publisher= ] |work= citypress.co.za |date= 22 April 2013 |accessdate= 2 November 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130918165556/http://www.citypress.co.za/news/wits-prof-accused-of-sexual-harassment-placed-on-special-leave/ |archivedate= 18 September 2013 |df= dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Bizcomm">{{cite news |url= http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/499/92390.html |title= Professor frog-marched off Wits campus |first= Amukelani |last= Chauke |publisher= BizCommunity Daily Industry News |date= 22 April 2013 |accessdate = 1 November 2013}}</ref> which he disputed, and was subsequently dismissed from his position.<ref name="timeslive">{{cite news |url= http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/09/06/wits-fires-third-sex-pest |first= Poppy |last= Louw |title= Wits fires third 'sex pest' |publisher= ] (South Africa)|date= 6 September 2013 |accessdate= 2 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="iol">{{cite news |url= http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/wits-fires-third-sex-pest-1.1574108#.UmuqjSRzqYU |title= Wits fires third sex pest |first= Nontobeki |last= Mtshali |work= ] |date= 6 September 2013 |accessdate= 2 November 2013}}</ref>


⚫ ==Dismissal from Wits==

Taylor was placed on special leave by Wits University in 2013 following allegations of sexual harassment,<ref name="sabc">{{cite news |url = http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/a7a15c004f5cdcdabc12bf1e5d06aea0/Wits-professor-accused-of-sexual-harassment-put-on-leave--20130423 |title= Wits professor accused of sexual harassment put on leave |publisher= ] |date= 23 April 2013 |accessdate= 2 November 2013 |work= sabc.com}}</ref><ref name="citypress">{{cite news |url= http://www.citypress.co.za/news/wits-prof-accused-of-sexual-harassment-placed-on-special-leave/ |title= Wits prof accused of sexual harassment placed on special leave |publisher= ] |work= citypress.co.za |date= 22 April 2013 |accessdate= 2 November 2013}} which he disputed, stating he was taking legal advice. He was subsequently dismissed from his position.
==Selected publications== ==Selected publications==
* “South Africa: Consociation or Democracy? ”. 85 (Fall 1990). New York: Telos Press. * "South Africa: Consociation or Democracy? ”. 85 (Fall 1990). New York: Telos Press.
* "South Africa: Anti-Apartheid NGOs in Transition" with Adam Habib, Voluntas, 1999, Vol. 10, No. 1 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1021495821397 * "South Africa: Anti-Apartheid NGOs in Transition" with Adam Habib, Voluntas, 1999, Vol. 10, No. 1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1021495821397


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
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https://independent.academia.edu/RupertTaylor *

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Rupert Taylor (born 1958), is a professor of political studies and former head of the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 1987 to 2013. He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in England and completed a BA degree in politics and government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics (1981) and a PhD in sociology at Kent, (1986). He was formerly a visiting research fellow in the Department of Political Science at the New School for Social Research in New York City, adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University and a visiting research fellow in the School of Politics, Queen's University Belfast.

Publications include articles in African Affairs, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Peace and Change, The Political Quarterly, Race and Class, The Round Table, and Telos. He was editor of Politikon and Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations.

Rupert Taylor is a "B" rated National Research Foundation scholar.

Early career

As a Masters student at the London School of Economics Taylor achieved the highest distinction grade for the degree. His doctoral dissertation highlighted the problems confronting Queen's University Belfast in trying to maintain a liberal position in a deeply divided society and helped initiate the reform of sectarian employment practices in higher education in Northern Ireland. In 1984 his research findings were reported in the British and Irish media, and stimulated a Fair Employment Agency enquiry that resulted in new employment equity guidelines. Taylor's doctoral research was acknowledged in John Whyte's Interpreting Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 1990).

Consociationalism

Taylor's research interests include political violence, transitions to democracy and non-governmental organisations. He has written widely about South African politics and the Northern Ireland conflict. He has been critical of consociationalism as a strategy of conflict management.

Whilst at the New School for Research in New York (1993–94), Taylor developed a deeper critique of the way in which political science has dealt with race and ethnicity (expounded in the Ethnic and Racial Studies award-winning paper). This led him to propose a social transformation theory as a compelling way to bring about democratic peace in societies marked by racial and ethnic division – see his "Northern Ireland: Consociation or Social Transformation" chapter in John McGarry's Northern Ireland and the Divided World (Oxford University Press, 2001). Taylor's position on consociationalism is widely acknowledged in the political science literature on the Northern Ireland conflict and the South African transition from apartheid to democracy, a position consolidated with the recent publication of the edited volume on Consociational Theory (Routledge, 2009).

Taylor participated in a two-year international study of peace and conflict organisations in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. This study was conducted in collaboration with the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR), involved academics from Princeton University, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University, University of Ulster and Bethlehem University, and was presented at the ISTR conference in Geneva in 1998. This led to the publication of Gidron, Katz, and Hasenfeld (eds), Mobilizing for Peace (Oxford University Press, 2002). Taylor authored the chapter on South Africa. This book won the Virginia Hodgkinson Independent Sector research prize (2003).

South Africa

Taylor's peer-reviewed papers on the causes of political violence in South Africa have been referred to in many international publications. One such paper, published in African Affairs (2002), examines the structural nature of post-apartheid political violence in KwaZulu-Natal. Another is the earlier Race and Class paper (1991) on township political violence. In The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Wilson wrote that “Rupert Taylor came up with sophisticated theories of apartheid violence.” Taylor wrote a number of papers on non-racialism in South Africa, and along with Orkin wrote a substantial chapter on the racialisation of social scientific research on South Africa that attracted a scholarly response in the South African Sociological Review. Taylor has published two well-cited papers with Habib (Vice-Chancellor of Wits University) on opposition politics and the state of the South African nonprofit sector.

Editor of Voluntas

In 2000 Taylor was appointed editor of the ISTR journal Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. As editor, he took the journal to Springer, a new major international publisher. As a result of Taylor's editorial direction the global academic visibility of Voluntas dramatically increased. It is now an ISA-rated journal and the leading journal focusing on the scholarly study of the third sector. Taylor served as editor until 2009 and compiled an edited volume on Third Sector Research (Springer, 2010).

Dismissal from Wits University

Taylor was placed on special leave by Wits University in 2013 following allegations of sexual harassment, which he disputed, and was subsequently dismissed from his position.

Selected publications

References

  1. Taylor, Rupert (2006). "The Belfast Agreement and the politics of consociationalism: A critique". The Political Quarterly. 77 (2): 217–226. doi:10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00764.x.
  2. "Wits professor accused of sexual harassment put on leave". sabc.com. SABC News. 23 April 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  3. "Wits prof accused of sexual harassment placed on special leave". citypress.co.za. City Press (South Africa). 22 April 2013. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  4. Chauke, Amukelani (22 April 2013). "Professor frog-marched off Wits campus". BizCommunity Daily Industry News. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  5. Louw, Poppy (6 September 2013). "Wits fires third 'sex pest'". The Times (South Africa). Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  6. Mtshali, Nontobeki (6 September 2013). "Wits fires third sex pest". Independent Online (South Africa). Retrieved 2 November 2013.

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