Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis: special review forum.

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis. Published by Adam D. Morton and myself in 2018, this book analyses how these conditions can be understood in terms of their internal relationship so as to capture capital’s connection to the states-system of uneven and combined development, social reproduction, and the contradictions facing humanity within world-ecology. In this blog post, I draw attention to a recently published Forum on this book by the journal International Relations with a range of exciting, critical interventions.

 

The critical interventions with various aspects of the book include the following contributions:

 

Cemal Burak Tansel - Historical Materialism and International Studies: Theorising the Politics of Struggle in the Everyday World.

 

Bob Jessop – Internal Relations in Global Capitalism.

 

Ian Bruff – A Necessarily Historical Materialist Moment for Whom? A Tale of Two Literary Rhythms.

 

Sébastien Rioux – Towards a Historical Geographical Materialism?

 

Lara Montesinos Coleman – Marxism, Coloniality and Ontological Assumptions.

 

Aida A. Hozić - Follow the Bodies: Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis and Feminist IPE.

 

Victoria Basham – A Necessarily Historical Materialist Moment? Feminist Reflections on the Need for Grounded Critique in an Age of Crises.

 

Kevin Gray – China and the Philosophy of Internal Relations.

 

When we had completed the manuscript for the book in July 2017, it felt like a conclusion to our joint authorship collaboration that has flowed across some twenty-years. As the various critical engagements with GCGWGC here demonstrate, however, academic scholarship is never and can never be a completed enterprise. Hence, in our response to the interventions, Adam and I emphasise the importance of opening the gates of political economy through constructive, critical and reflective discussions. GCGWGC is, thus, one step in a collective but unfinished attempt in this ongoing process.

 

Andreas Bieler and Adam D. Morton – Gate-opening Political Economy.

 

Further reviews of this book can be accessed here. 

 

 

Andreas Bieler

Professor of Political Economy

University of Nottingham/UK

Andreas.Bieler@nottingham.ac.uk

Personal website: http://andreasbieler.net

29 March 2021