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Posts Tagged ‘historical materialism’
Capitalism in contemporary Iran: Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics
Kayhan Valadbaygi | February 22, 2024
In my recently published book, Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital accumulation, State Formation, and Geopolitics, by Manchester University Press in the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Series, I offer an alternative narrative to state formation in Iran grounded in a historical [...]
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Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure and Change in Social Theory
Brett Heino | November 15, 2022
One of the grand traditions of the Past & Present Reading Group is “the pitch.” As we near the end of our current text, those who have engaged with it are given the opportunity to nominate the next book that the group will tackle. At risk of doing an injustice to any selfless members of the [...]
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Uneven and Combined State Capitalism: Towards a Research Agenda
Ilias Alami | Adam D. Dixon | October 21, 2021
An extremely lively and promising pluri-disciplinary research agenda has coalesced around the rubric state capitalism, demonstrating its potential for focusing scholarly efforts on an important set of transformations in the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing [...]
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George Comninel, ‘Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx’
Berkay Koçak | June 10, 2021
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The revival of Marx and Marxism emerged as one of the inevitable consequences of the critical questioning of capitalism with the long-term effects of the Global Crisis by 2007-8. Seeking to carry ‘the renaissance of Marx and Marxism’ forward, Palgrave-Macmillan’s Series [...]
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Theorising ‘the international’ with historical materialism
Cemal Burak Tansel | April 1, 2021
The variations of the question ‘What is the point of International Relations?’ have been asked by so many scholars over the years that there is now a veritable literature dedicated to analysing the discipline’s unending existential angst. In a snapshot of the debates on IR’s raison d’être, [...]
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Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Madelaine Moore | December 29, 2020
For the last book of 2020, the Past & Present Reading Group tackled Georg Lukács’ classic, History and Class Consciousness. There was a general sense that although the text remains a critical work for the development of a theory of praxis and for historical materialism more broadly, as [...]
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Historical Materialism Sydney Keynotes
Gareth Bryant | December 3, 2018
Please join us for the keynote addresses at the Historical Materialism Sydney 2018 conference. All parts of the conference are free and open to all.
Full conference details, including venue, timetable and registration are here.
Lisa AdkinsSocial Reproduction in the Neoliberal [...]
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