Dr Greig Charnock

Greig completed his PhD at Manchester in 2005. Since then he has taught International Politics at Manchester as a member of the Centre for International Politics.

He is currently MA Pathway Director for International Political Economy, co-convener of the Historical Materialism Research Group, an associate of the Centre for the Study of Political Economy, and convener of the Politics Seminar series.

He is a member of the editorial board of Capital & Class (journal of the Conference of Socialist Economists), co-convener (with Hugo Radice, Stuart Shields and Werner Bonefeld) of the CSE's 'Trans-Pennine Working Group', and is a member of the Global Competitiveness Research Group based at the Institute for Global Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Keywords: Marxism; political economy; global competitiveness; urbanism; global governance; Latin America; Spain.

Greig is committed to the analysis of contemporary political economy and restructuring processes from a Marxist point of departure. His recent research has examined the role of key international regulative agencies in the promotion of a politics of global competitiveness, and with a focus on the Latin American region.

Greig's current research seeks to build upon the work of the French social theorist Henri Lefebvre in order to critically understand the current promotion of a politics of global competitiveness. The objective of the research is to produce a book which applies this understanding to the contemporary political economy of Spain.

• POLI10601 Introduction to International Politics (IPE section)
• POLI20541 Social Movements for Political Change (The May 1968 Events in
  France)
• POLI70401 Graduate Seminar in International Politics (Marxism)

Greig is on research leave in semester two

Publications Database

Charnock, G (2008) 'Competitiveness and Critique: The Value of a New Materialist Research Project', Historical Materialism, 16, 2: 117-141.

Charnock, G. (2006) 'Improving the Mechanisms of Global Governance? The Ideational Impact of the World Bank on Mexico's National Reform Agenda', New Political Economy, 11, 1: 73-98

Charnock, G. (2005) 'The Crisis of Foxism? The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Mexico', Capital & Class, 86: 1-8.

Greig is keen to supervise postgraduate research in the following areas:

Marxist social theory; international/global political economy; the political economy of development; Latin American or Spanish political economy

Current PhD Students:

• Tom Houseman (The Bretton Woods Institutions and the Conceptualisation of 'Poverty')
• Tom Purcell (The Role of Cooperatives in Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution)
• Japhy Wilson (The Production of Mesoamerica: Neoliberalisation and the Destructive Creation of Space)