Political Economy Centre Research Seminar - A World Order of Racial Capitalism by Hallsworth Visiting Professor Adam David Morton
| Dates: | 26 October 2022 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 12:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Adam David Morton , |
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Abstract: My aim here is to carve out a focus on certain authorised mainstream perspectives and their theorisations of world order and how they have become dominant at the expense of excluded and silenced contributions. This task commences, first, by asserting that the anarchic conditions of world order have been mainstreamed at the expense of contributions to Marxist political economy. Specifically, my focus starts with the competing understandings of anarchic orders in Kenneth Waltz and Nikolai Bukharin to disclose, in the latter, the anarchical structure of world capitalism. Second, my attention is cast to the parallel profiles of E.H. Carr and C.L.R. James bolstered by their weighty understandings of world revolution to reveal, in the latter, neglected racialised and classed conditions of imperialism. In a fresh manner, then, my approach juxtaposes key figures that have been present (Waltz, Carr) and absent (Bukharin, James) in understanding world order through the anarchic structure of the world market and racial capitalism. By so doing, both familiar and distinct constructions of the rise and fall of world orders can be revealed that speak to the contemporary era of global capitalism, delivering historical sensitivity to understanding present-day challenges. As a result, the argument about a necessarily historical materialist moment to understanding world order can be further extended and deepened. By asserting the necessity of historical materialism to analysing the anarchically structured world economy and racial capitalism, contending mainstream approaches can be revealed as a “slavish breed of imitators” when it comes to understanding world order.
Speakers
Adam David Morton
Role: Hallsworth Visiting Professor
Organisation: UofM and University of Sydney
Biography: Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (Pluto Press, 2007);Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), which was the recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis(with Andreas Bieler, Cambridge University Press, 2018), and editor of the volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography (with Stuart Elden, University of Minnesota Press, 2022).
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