Robin Blackburn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 253407 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robin Blackburn |
| NOMBRES | Robin |
| APELLIDO | Blackburn |
| FIRMA | BLACKBURN R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3491-7381 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 285 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1963 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Towards a new model of population mental health research and policy translation in the UK
Challenging school experiences of unavoidable absence and return for young people with chronic health conditions in English secondary schools
Introduction School absences rates in England have remained high since the COVID-19 pandemic and reducing absence is a policy priority. Evidence shows that young people with chronic health conditions have higher school absence and worse educational outcomes. We examined the perspectives of young people, caregivers and school staff on school absence and return for English secondary school pupils with chronic health conditions. Methods We recruited…
Contradictions of Capital and Slavery
Intersectional relationships between age, sex, ethnicity, nationality and experience of racism in the UK using different ethnicity categorisations
Traditionally, research has relied on broad ethnic categories such as "Asian," "Black," "White," "Mixed," and "Other." These categories often mask significant variations in experiences and outcomes among ethnic subgroups. The Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (I-MAIHDA) approach has become an increasingly recognised quantitative method to study intersectional health inequities. There is a n…
Hospital readmission among people experiencing homelessness in England
BACKGROUND: Inpatients experiencing homelessness are often discharged to unstable accommodation or the street, which may increase the risk of readmission. METHODS: We conducted a cohort study of 2772 homeless patients discharged after an emergency admission at 78 hospitals across England between November 2013 and November 2016. For each individual, we selected a housed patient who lived in a socioeconomically deprived area, matched on age, sex, h…
The Sacred Cause
At the outset of this impressive work Jeffrey Needell explains that, despite its quality and extent, the existing literature on Brazilian slave emancipation fails to focus on the vital interaction between social movement and elite politics that eventually allowed plantation slavery, after 300 years, to be legally suppressed in 1888. The Brazilian empire was a constitutional monarchy providing space for contestation and negotiation. Needell urges …
The Force of Example
Reform to Preserve
The Corbyn Project
Given the imbalances of the UK economy—overblown financial sector, gaping current account, delirious levels of debt—what structural changes might a Corbyn government effect? Robin Blackburn discusses prospects and proposals for an egalitarian shift
The World Reimagined
The World Reimagined offers a concise, well-documented account of “Americans and human rights in the twentieth century.” Mark Philip Bradley deliberately sidesteps the question of “origins” but squarely confronts the fact that Americans did not easily grant authority to supranational bodies—to do so would be to imply that something was missing or wrong in U.S. institutions. The U.S. failure to ratify the League of Nations, and the fact that the l…
Revisiting the Transition to Capitalism Debate
White Gold, Black Labour
Gunboat Abolitionism
Stuart Hall, 1932–2014
Finance for Anarchists
Alexander Cockburn, 1941–2012
A tribute to Alexander Cockburn—director of CounterPunch, Marxian environmentalist, long-standing editor of New Left Review. Robin Blackburn traces his path from County Cork to Soho, Havana to Manhattan, the Florida Keys to California’s Lost Coast
La crise 2.0
Revolution And Emancipation
The British anti-slavery movement was initiated by Granville Sharp, who had first focused on securing a judgment from the High Court that the holding of slaves in England was illegal - the celebrated Mansfield judgment of 1772. Slavery in the Americas was suppressed in one territory after another, in events extending over a little more than a century from the 1770s to the late 1880s. The ending of slavery was only secured by the bloody ordeal of …
An Unfinished Revolution
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they agreed on the cause of "free labor" and the urgent need to end slavery. In his introduction, Robin Blackburn argues that Lincoln's response signaled the importance of the German American community and the role of the international communists in opposing European recognition of the Confederacy. The ideal…
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln held very different views on the ‘social question’. This essay explores the way in which they converged in their estimation of slavery during the course of the Civil War; Marx was an ardent abolitionist, and Lincoln came to see this position as necessary. It is argued that the rôle of runaway slaves – called ‘contraband’ – and German-revolutionary ’48ers played a significant rôle in the radicalisation of Lincoln and …
Crisis 2.0
Atlantic economies remain mired in unemployment and stagnation three years on from 2008. Diagnosing the underlying causes of the crisis as global over-capacity, deficient demand and anarchic credit creation, Robin Blackburn explores proposals for a genuine exit from it to the left
Reclaiming Human Rights
Defining Slavery—its Special Features and Social Role
State of the Union
Value Theory and the Chinese Worker
In answer, Blackburn explores the paradoxes of fictitious capital, underwritten by super-exploitation of China’s producers. A public-utility credit system, democratic forms of nationalization and mechanisms to socialize investment as steps towards financial dual power
The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848
The Making of New World Slavery
"At the time when European powers colonized the New World the institution of slavery had almost disappeared from Europe itself. Having overcome an institution widely regarded as oppressive and unfortunate why did they sponsor the construction of racial slave systems in their new colonies? Robin Blackburn traces European doctrines of race and slavery from medieval times to the early modern epoch, and finds that the stigmatization of the ethno-reli…
Ideology in social science
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848
The Old World Background to European Colonial Slavery
Student Power
Finance and the Fourth Dimension
The concept of alternative futures, banished from postmodernity’s eternal present, flourishes on the financial summits of the global economy. Robin Blackburn argues against a neo-Luddite dismissal of the new financial engineering techniques by the Left, while coolly assessing the economic and social costs of their current configurations
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848
Pensions
The Imperial Presidency, the War on Terrorism, and the Revolutions of Modernity
The Working Class in the Labour Market
The Slave Trade
Hospital readmission among people experiencing homelessness in England
BACKGROUND: Inpatients experiencing homelessness are often discharged to unstable accommodation or the street, which may increase the risk of readmission. METHODS: We conducted a cohort study of 2772 homeless patients discharged after an emergency admission at 78 hospitals across England between November 2013 and November 2016. For each individual, we selected a housed patient who lived in a socioeconomically deprived area, matched on age, sex, h…
The Sacred Cause
At the outset of this impressive work Jeffrey Needell explains that, despite its quality and extent, the existing literature on Brazilian slave emancipation fails to focus on the vital interaction between social movement and elite politics that eventually allowed plantation slavery, after 300 years, to be legally suppressed in 1888. The Brazilian empire was a constitutional monarchy providing space for contestation and negotiation. Needell urges …
Economic democracy
Daedalus Summer 2007 To some, economic democracy is self-evidently a good thing if it means spreading economic opportunities more widely, giving workers a greater say in the workplace, and allowing communities to participate in the investment decisions that shape their future. Indeed, a classic argument has it that political democracy–universal suffrage, civic freedoms, and all that is needed to make them practical and effective–will work better …
Capital and Social Europe
What positive programme can the Left propose for a ‘social Europe’, against the Anglo-Saxon model? Robin Blackburn outlines first steps towards a new financial regime aimed at boosting resources for sustainable health and retirement provision, with a share levy on corporations, redistributed across the continent
White Gold, Black Labour
Stuart Hall, 1932–2014
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln held very different views on the ‘social question’. This essay explores the way in which they converged in their estimation of slavery during the course of the Civil War; Marx was an ardent abolitionist, and Lincoln came to see this position as necessary. It is argued that the rôle of runaway slaves – called ‘contraband’ – and German-revolutionary ’48ers played a significant rôle in the radicalisation of Lincoln and …
The Subprime Crisis
As reverberations from the stricken mortgage market reach the real economy, Robin Blackburn reveals the origins of the crunch in the shadowy realms of financialization. Precedents from the bubbles and crash of the 1920s, warnings from pioneers and venture capitalists, and proposals for how to turn the crisis to socially redistributive effect
How to rescue a failing pension regime
The Enron Debacle and the Pension Crisis
What does the collapse of America’s energy conglomerate reveal about the mechanisms of financial intermediation? Crooked accountancy and plundering of employee pensions as badges of the Anglo-Saxon model that is conquering the landscape of capital today
The Origins of American Slavery
Journal Article The Origins of American Slavery: Freedom and Bondage in the English Colonies. By Betty Wood. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1997. viii, 132 pp. $18.00, ISBN 0-8090-7456-7.) and The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492–1800. By Robin Blackburn. (New York: Verso, 1997. vi, 602 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-85984-890-7.) Get access John K. Thornton John K. Thornton Millersville University Millersville, Pennsylvania Searc…
Putting the Sociologist in the Sociology of Culture
Craig Calhoun, Putting the Sociologist in the Sociology of Culture: The Self-Reflexive Scholarship of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Jul., 1990), pp. 500-505
Guerilla Warfare
One has become familiar with the demented logic and the deadened language of prominent American nuclear strategists. This book initiates us into a new branch of military mythology: “counter-guerilla warfare” and its associated techniques. It proves almost as frightening as the theory of nuclear strategy proper, since it
Guerilla Warfare
One has become familiar with the demented logic and the deadened language of prominent American nuclear strategists. This book initiates us into a new branch of military mythology: “counter-guerilla warfare” and its associated techniques. It proves almost as frightening as the theory of nuclear strategy proper, since it
Prologue to the Cuban Revolution
The Cuban revolution is now widely recognized as an event of world-historical importance. For the first time there has been a socialist revolution in the Americas. For the first time the new forms of colonialism have been unequivocally rejected. For the first time a socialist revolution has been
Inequality and Exploitation
Britain remains a country where the concentration of wealth is still one of the highest in the world. This is a fact that has significance for all societies of the capitalist type. After all, Britain has had one of the strongest Labour movements of any advanced capitalist country
Women in the Soviet Economy. Their Role in Economic, Scientific, and Technical Development
Journal Article N. T. Dodge. Women in the Soviet Economy. Their Role in Economic, Scientific, and Technical Development Get access Women in the Soviet Economy. Their Role in Economic, Scientific, and Technical Development. By N. T. Dodge. (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins Press (London: Oxford University Press), 1966. Pp. xviii + 331. 80s.) R. M. Blackburn R. M. Blackburn Clare College, Cambridge. Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
The Marxism of Régis Debray
Regis Debray has written three closely linked studies of the Latin American revolution. Together, they unquestionably constitute one of the most brilliant examples of Marxist-Leninist analysis to have appeared in many years. What above all distinguishes Debray's writings is their relentlessly Leninist focus on making the revolution, as a political, technical, and military problem. This is what gives them their inner unity and their unmistakable t…
La otra realidad
The First Circle
‘For a country to have a great writer is like having another government,’ remarks one of the characters in The First Circle. This observation has always been especially true of Russia and a reading of Solzhenitsyn’s work confirms that it has as much relevance today as at any
Student Power
Comment on Magas
Robin Blackburn writes: Branka Magas’ article touches on two themes to be found in much writing on the oppression of women. One is the very common rejection of Freud because of the blatant sexism which he frequently expressed, the other is a rejection of violence in the name . . .
Comment on Lucien Rey
The fundamental premiss of Rey’s comment runs as follows: ‘there is little of value written on women’s oppression within the Marxist tradition and perhaps even less within the Freudian tradition.’ Consequently, the feminist critique of Hegel, Freud, Rousseau, etc, is more important than a Marxist critique of feminism, . . .
English for Foreign Students Goes out on the Streets
There is much discussion these days about what to do in the foreign language classroom to develop skills in communication. For the foreign students in our universities the best laboratory is outside the classroomin the community of native speakers of English. It is obvious that this setting is more natural and more challenging for the students and that, as they talk with Americans, their oral fluency will improve. What is not so obvious is that w…
The Heath Government
The eruption of the international financial crisis last August has thrown into sharp relief an often neglected dimension of inter-imperialist contradictions—namely the relation between the domestic class struggle and the international competition of the major imperialist states. There are two ways of neglecting this relationship: one simply regards
Conversational English
Ideology in social science
The Test in Portugal
The Military revolt which seized Lisbon and overthrew the Caetano government on 25 April 1974 toppled in a morning the most long lived fascist State in history and one of the most stable capitalist regimes anywhere this century. By the same stroke it set the stage for the
Marxism
The real originality of Marx and Engels lies in the field of politics, not in economics or philosophy. They were the first to discover the historical potential of the new class that capitalism had brought into existence—the modern proletariat, a class that could encompass a universal liberation from
Elites, Ruling Classes and Political Power in South Asia
The Working Class in the Labour Market
White-Collar Work
Nicolas Krasso
It is with great sadness that we inform our readers of the death of Nicolas Krassó; he died on January 10th this year, following a fire accident at his home in November from which he did not recover. Nicolas joined the editorial committee of the Review in 1965
The overthrow of colonial slavery, 1776-1848
Raymond Williams and the Politics of a New Left
The death of Raymond Williams on January 26th robs the left in Britain of its most authoritative, consistent and radical voice. His loss is the more difficult to bear in that it was unexpected and came when he was at the height of his powers. Tributes to Williams
Putting the Sociologist in the Sociology of Culture
Craig Calhoun, Putting the Sociologist in the Sociology of Culture: The Self-Reflexive Scholarship of Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams, Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Jul., 1990), pp. 500-505
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848
Fin de Siecle
As we enter the last decade of the twentieth century, the ruin of ‘Marxist-Leninist’ Communism has been sufficiently comprehensive to eliminate it as an alternative to capitalism and to compromise the very idea of socialism. The debacle of Stalinism has embraced reform-communism, and has brought no benefit to
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