Activities
CSE Trans-Pennine Express Working Group:
June 2009 (Manchester)
Pinar Bedirhanoglu (METU) Turkey and EU enlargement
May 2009 (Leeds)
TBC
March 2009 (Leeds)
Paul Cammack (MMU) The OECD and the politics of global competitiveness
27th February 2009 (G.019 ALB Manchester)
Christos Memos (York) will be reflecting on the Greek riots.
January 23rd 2009 (Alcuin college A/TB/057, York)
Jamie Gough (Sheffield)
'Industrial relations/labour and crisis'.
December 2008 (Beech Grove House, Leeds)
Stuart Hodkinson (Leeds) The neoliberalization of public housing.
28th November 2008 (G.019 ALB Manchester)
Hugo Radice (Leeds) '1968 and the idea of socialism'.
24th October 2008 (Alcuin College, 102, York University)
Werner Bonefeld Abstract Labour: Against its Nature and on its Time
&
Axel Kicillof
(Buenos Aires) & Guido Starosta (Manchester) Materiality and Social Form: A Political Critique of Rubin’s Value-Form Theory pdf
20th June 2008 (ALB 2nd floor Boardroom Manchester)
Guido Starosta (Manchester) 'The system of machinery and the social and material determinations of revolutionary subjectivity in the Grundrisse and Capital', 2pm-4pm.
David Neilson (Waikato) 'From Marx’s fragments towards a general theory of employment and the surplus population'.
May 16th 2008 (Beech Grove House, Leeds)
Stuart Shields 'From Shock Therapy to sovereignty paranoia: Neoliberalism and neopopulism in Poland's post-communist transition' 2pm-4pm.
25th April 2008 (Derwent College, D/056, York) meet in the Derwent cafeteria.
Neil Ryan 'Globalisation, Neo-Gramscianism and Open Marxism', 2pm-4pm.
14th March 2008 (ALB 2nd floor Boardroom Manchester)
Hugo Radice (Leeds) 'The developmental state under global neoliberalism', 2pm-4pm.
22nd February 2008 (Beech Grove House, Leeds)
Greig Charnock (Manchester) 'Challenging New State Spaces:
The Open Marxism of Henri Lefebvre', 2pm-4pm.
25th January 2008 (Langwith College, L/037, York)
John Smith (Sheffield) 'What's new about the new Imperialism?' 2pm-4pm.
14th December 2007 (ALB 2nd floor Boardroom (2.016/017)
Werner Bonefeld (York) 'Primitive accumulation and accumulation of capital' 2pm-4pm.
Weekly reading group:
The HMRG meets as a reading group on a weekly basis to discuss texts selected by its members in the Arthur Lewis Building (ALB). This is an open forum and all are welcome to attend. We meet on Wednesdays 12.00-13.00, room details and readings below.
7th May 2008 ALB 4.051 Jamie Peck (2008) 'Remaking laissez-faire', Progress in Human Geography, 32(3) pp. 3-33.
30th April 2008 ALB4.050 Erik Swyngedouw 'Where is the political?'.
23rd April 2008 no reading group but all welcome to the Politics Seminar (3pm-4.30pm) at which Ben Fine (SOAS) will be discussing his work on 'Economics Imperialism'.
16th April 2008 (ALB4.051) Jacques Rancière (2004) 'Introducing disagreement', Angelaki, 9(3) pp. 3-9.
12th March 2008 (ALB4.051) Karl Marx 'Introduction' to Grundrisse.
5th March 2008 (ALB 4.050) Kees van der Pijl (2007) 'Capital and the state system: a class
act', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(4) pp. 619 - 637.
27th February 2008 (ALB 4.050) Robbie Shilliam (2004) 'Hegemony and the Unfashionable Problematic of Primitive Accumulation', Millennium, 32(1) pp. 59-88.
13th February 2008 (ALB 4.051) Gonzalo Pozo-Martin (2007) 'Autonomous or materialist
geopolitics?', Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(4) pp. 551 - 563.
6th February 2008 (ALB 4.051) Werner Bonefeld, Alice Brown & Peter Burnham (1993) A Major Crisis? Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, chapter 2, 'National states and the global economy: The politics of economic policy', pp. 6-33. Copies available from Greig.
30th January 2008 (ALB 4.051) David Harvey (1976) 'The Marxian theory of the state', Antipode pp. 80-89.
23rd January 2008 No reading group - CSE workshop
16th January 2008 (ALB 4.050) James Heartfield, (2007) '1648 and All That', Critique, 35(3) pp. 445-455.
5th December (ALB 4.051) William Robinson (2007) 'Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and Transnational State', Societies Without Borders, 2(1) pp. 5-26.
28th November (ALB 4.050) Neil Smith (1994) Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space, 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, chapter 2, 'The production of nature', pp. 32-65. The pdf online also includes chapter 1.
21st November (ALB 4.051) Hannes Lacher (2003) 'Putting the state in its place: the critique of state-centrism and its limits', Review of International Studies, 29(3) pp. 521–541.
14th November No reading group - SERG/Ted Benton seminar
7th November (ALB 4.050) Ted Benton (1991) 'Marxism and Natural Limits: An Ecological Critique and Reconstruction', New Left Review I (178) pp. 51-86.
31st October (ALB 4.051) Benno Teschke (2002) 'Theorising the Westphalian System of States: International Relations from Absolutism to Capitalism', European Journal of International Relations, 8(1): 5-48.
24th October (ALB 4.031) Peter Kennedy (2006) 'Marxism and the Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist State', Critique, 34(2) pp. 179-96.
Annual workshop
The HMRG organises an annual workshop based around a specific theme.
October 12th 2007 Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour Workshop
As part of a joint initiative with Andreas Bieler and Adam Morton from the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham, we held a one-day workshop in Nottingham. The objective was to discuss issues of global restructuring and state theory from within the varied historical materialist tradition. Papers from the event will be available here soon and podcasts from the day will be online at the workshop website
2006 Bob Jessop Future of the Capitalist State workshop.
