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| Our friend and colleague David Slater, who has died aged 70, was one of the world’s leading analysts of Latin American development. From 1995 until 2011, he was professor of political geography at Loughborough University, and he had previously taught and researched at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1972-75) and at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, University of Amsterdam (1975-95). | Our friend and colleague David Slater, who has died aged 70, was one of the world’s leading analysts of Latin American development. From 1995 until 2011, he was professor of political geography at Loughborough University, and he had previously taught and researched at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1972-75) and at the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation, University of Amsterdam (1975-95). |
| He was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Dorothy Richardson, a piano teacher, and Albert Slater, a civil servant, and educated at Blackpool grammar school. David studied geography at the University of Durham and then gained a PhD at the London School of Economics. | He was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Dorothy Richardson, a piano teacher, and Albert Slater, a civil servant, and educated at Blackpool grammar school. David studied geography at the University of Durham and then gained a PhD at the London School of Economics. |
| He brought erudition, intellectual energy and comradeship to his work on Africa and Latin America. A powerhouse of original and challenging ideas, he produced groundbreaking work on development theory and on the rise of social movements in Latin America and their geopolitical implications. Through journal articles and books such as Territory and State Power in Latin America (1988), Geopolitics and the Post-colonial (2004) and The American Century (1999, co-edited with Peter Taylor), David built an enviable international reputation, and he was appointed to visiting professorships at universities in Brazil, Canada, the US, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Sri Lanka. | He brought erudition, intellectual energy and comradeship to his work on Africa and Latin America. A powerhouse of original and challenging ideas, he produced groundbreaking work on development theory and on the rise of social movements in Latin America and their geopolitical implications. Through journal articles and books such as Territory and State Power in Latin America (1988), Geopolitics and the Post-colonial (2004) and The American Century (1999, co-edited with Peter Taylor), David built an enviable international reputation, and he was appointed to visiting professorships at universities in Brazil, Canada, the US, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Sri Lanka. |
| David was an inspiration. A brief discussion with him would be likely to stimulate new ways of thinking and open fresh avenues for inquiry. He had a deep concern for human rights and social justice, and this underpinned all he did as a commentator on global problems. This was particularly so in regard to apartheid South Africa, Palestine under Israeli occupation, Cuba under the US embargo and the struggles of the dispossessed in Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela. | David was an inspiration. A brief discussion with him would be likely to stimulate new ways of thinking and open fresh avenues for inquiry. He had a deep concern for human rights and social justice, and this underpinned all he did as a commentator on global problems. This was particularly so in regard to apartheid South Africa, Palestine under Israeli occupation, Cuba under the US embargo and the struggles of the dispossessed in Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela. |
| Indeed, his association with the Palestinian cause was pursued at some personal cost. His vocal support for an academic boycott of Israel (for instance, he was a signatory of a 2009 letter to the Guardian calling for a boycott), provoked vitriol and personal attacks from some academic quarters. | Indeed, his association with the Palestinian cause was pursued at some personal cost. His vocal support for an academic boycott of Israel (for instance, he was a signatory of a 2009 letter to the Guardian calling for a boycott), provoked vitriol and personal attacks from some academic quarters. |
| David is survived by his partner, Farida Sheriff. | David is survived by his partner, Farida Sheriff. |