Affective Socialists explores the story of the Chilean and Bahraini Marxist left, their rise to political and cultural prominence, and their subsequent removal from power during the peak of their influence. This thesis covers the period between 1964 and 1975, during which both n…
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This dissertation is a political history of The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte , from its composition by Karl Marx and first publication in New York City in 1852 to the last edition published in the Weimar Republic eighty years later. It studies ten editions published in…
This dissertation develops a theoretical framework for the study of a resurgent realism in the context of contemporary global anglophone literature. By demonstrating the continuing relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, and by expanding their theories of realism and the …
This dissertation explores a peculiarly French case of the ideological thaw in the Sixties, when the belated disenchantment with USSR prompted Parisian intellectuals to recast their interests: out of Europe, via tiers-mondisme, or out of history, via structuralism. Towering figu…
Négritude is a condensed form of Western ideologies; yet it is still the basis for any claim of Black/African specificity. However, that specificity is not unique to Black/Africans, but is, rather, part of a wider universal system. At the same time, because racism is one of the …
The objective of this thesis is to investigate and understand why and how consent is manipulated in societies where severe coercion seems to be effective in securing power. This text therefore analyses the role and nature of coercion and consent – of armed conflict and news prod…
This research is a practice-based, theory-led, examination of forms of extraction under capitalism. The thesis addresses the question of where and how does extraction take place, both in and outside of the wage relationship. Directly employing Marx's concept of surplus extractio…
This thesis is an investigation into the integration of east German women into the FederalRepublic following German unification. It draws on oral history interviews to examine theexistence of a distinctive identity amongst east German women and concludes that theiropinions and v…
The commentary draws on a range of work to demonstrate the argument that policy and politics are of central importance in shaping social work in England. I outline the development of my practice wisdom and then examine the contested nature of social work knowledge. Drawing on my…
The life expectancy of political organisations who claim tostand in the Marxist tradition is often short. Differences overaspects of theory, sometimes masking clashes of personality,ensure that there is a continual flow of splits and sects whosetheoretical deliniations are sligh…
The originality of the thesis is advanced in a number of ways. The first is to examine the S.I.'s contribution to political theory. This thesis is original as it is a political reading of the Situationists and this has primacy. It focuses on key political concepts and considers …
This thesis examines the uneven development of the productive subjectivity of the British working class, and how this was expressed in patterns of regional, racial, ethnic, and gendered patterns of inequality between 1997-2010. I examine the transformation of the British working…
This thesis provides an original contribution to ongoing debates within scholarly Political Economy and Area Studies literatures on the (neoliberal) transformation of the Hungarian political economy. Within this literature, the ‘transition’ to a (free) market economy and democra…
U.S.-centric, capitalistic development depends upon a possessive individualism that naturalizes a transcendent, exceptional “Americanness” by privileging maleness, whiteness, heterosexuality and class position. This process of privileging involves a double maneuver: (1) ideologi…
This study of the biblical Book of Amos from Marxist and Freudian perspectives demonstrates that the critical approaches so designated complement one another well enough to be adapted and employed constructively in the study of literature and literary production. From the Marxis…
This dissertation presents the history of the evangelical Christian movement as a dynamic faith movement that developed outside the structure of the established Ethiopian Orthodox Church and thereby highlights the historicity of the new dimension of Christianity by offering a co…
This dissertation examines the evolution of Chinese martial arts fiction in the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay between its narrative form and historical ground. In my analysis, the industrialization of China is shown to have produced new forms of social interdepend…
This dissertation examines the anti-war, anti-militarist tradition of American literature and film from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961) to the most recent documentaries about the ongoing Iraq War. This dissident, deeply humanist tradition has been, in Western art, a central feat…
The forced extraction of raw materials and life forms from the Earth’s biosphere sustains human feats of modernity. From precious metals to fossil fuels, from copper to uranium, and the rare earth minerals essential to modern infrastructure and electronics, the history of mining…