Christopher May
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3673838 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christopher May |
| NOMBRES | Christopher |
| APELLIDO | May |
| FIRMA | MAY C |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8369-1649 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 195 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Mindfulness in Relationships
Illicit Alcohol in Victorian Off‐Licence Retailers
An approach to teaching religious education in relation to socio-political divergence and the climate crisis
This paper will examine the significance that an approach to teaching religious education might have in relation to increasing sociopolitical divergence in the UK and beyond. A consideration of the increasing socio-political polarisation and its impact on education will lead to a discussion of why this means that a focus on knowledge alone, however this is conceived, will be insufficient to address such challenges. A discussion of what it is that…
Neoliberalism, guilt, shame and stigma
The researchers conducted a Lacanian discourse analysis of 21 interviews conducted in 2016 of food bank clients of a large city in a southern U.S. state. The study focused on accounts of food insecure individuals regarding their experiences of stigma, shame, and guilt towards receiving non‐profit food assistance and how those experiences—or lack thereof—might play a role in food bank utilization, given the problematic of why many food insecure ho…
Academic publishing and open access
This article briefly sets out a political economy of academic publishing, exploring what the costs and benefits of this model are/were for the academic community. It then moves to explore forms of open access publication available to the social science (politics and international relations) community in the United Kingdom and beyond. The article concludes by asking why (given its likely advantages), the open access model is not ubiquitous and sug…
Handbook on the Rule of Law
Handbook on the Rule of Law
Cultivating Standards of Taste
Cultivating Standards of Taste:"Aisthesis" in Liberal Arts and Science Pedagogy Christopher May (bio) and Ryan Wittingslow (bio) In Of the Standard of Taste, David Hume retells a story lifted from Cervantes's Don Quixote Sancho Panza, it is revealed, comes from a family with an excellent capacity for discernment in wine; it is a "quality hereditary" in his line. Indeed, Pancho declares, two of his kinsman on his father's side-the finest tasters i…
Examining the Link Between the Human Microbiome and Antisocial Behavior
Objective: The expansion of technology enables closer examination of human biological functioning which has exponentially increased knowledge about how the human organism interacts with surrounding environs to produce certain behaviors. The contemporary biosocial model pushes crime theorists and researchers alike to consider the many biological factors that may be implicated in violent behavior and how those factors are ameliorated or exacerbated…
Bringing Susan Strange Back In (again)
This volume brings together a group of scholars who, I believe, all had personal relationships with Susan Strange during her life and, as such, can interpret the nuances of her work. In his introduction, Randall Germain, as editor and initiator of the project, suggests the volume will deliver three crucial impressions of Susan Strange's work. First, her view of (structural) power in IPE was novel in its pluralism and permissive of interchange(s) …
The great leveler
As we now know the financial crisis of 2008 was not (at least not yet) the final crisis of capitalism. For its critics one of the most interesting aspects of global capitalism has been its resilien
Multinational Corporations in World Development
In light of the 2014 Ecuador-sponsored resolution at the UN Human Rights Council to examine the link between Transnational Corporations and Human Rights, in this paper I review the first major discussion at the United Nations of the role of multinational corporations. The report on Multinational Corporations in World Development (1973) for the UN Department of Economic and Social affair launched the (then) new UN Centre on Transnational Corporati…
Corporate Nationality and the Breaking of State Contracts
The interest in global corporations’ activity and behavior is at least in part driven by the perception that these massive firms have become more powerful than states. Indeed, we are often told both in popular accounts and in (some) academic analysis that these firms are able to shape and shift national political economies toward their own needs and interests. However, these broad arguments seldom survive detailed empirical testing, leaving the t…
Global Corporations in Global Governance
This book offers a concise and accessible overview and analysis of the place of large multinational and regional corporations in the political economy of global governance.May argues that not only do corporations have an impact on the institutions of global governance, but they must be understood as a multifaceted institution of global governance in their own right, controlling and shaping significant aspects of the global political economy. Topi…
Global Corporations in Global Governance
A Normative Theory of the Information Society
The Rule of Law
The Rule of Law
In this review of the late Tom (Lord) Bingham's last book on the Rule of Law I briefly note that the rule of law has become an increasingly normal trope of (global) politics, before setting out Bingham's characterisation of the norm itself. I then ask how we might explain the ascendance of the term (in light of Bingham's lack of interest in the issue), such that Bingham's book might find a mainstream non-academic publisher
Access to Knowledge in Africa
The emergence of the Internet and the digital world has changed the way people access, produce and share information and knowledge. Yet people in Africa face challenges in accessing scholarly publications, journals and learning materials in general. At the heart of these challenges, and solutions to them, is copyright, the branch of intellectual property rights that covers written and related works. This book offers an understanding of the legal …
Openness in academic publication
John Ruskin's Political Economy
In 2010 it will be 150 years since John Ruskin's major intervention in political economy was published. While in many ways Ruskin remains a well-known British commentator, his work on political economy has languished, relatively under-appreciated and seldom discussed. In this short review of Ruskin's political economy, the central aspects of his analysis are introduced and summarised. This is then allied to a short indication of how these ideas r…
The World Trade Organization
Damien Tambini, Danilo Leonardi & Chris Marsden, Codifying Cyberspace
Opening other windows
Although analysis in IR and IPE has increasingly started to focus on non-state actors and the information society, the role of the legal architecture of the Internet has been relatively under-analysed in terms of the structural power around communication interfaces. In this article I suggest the work of Lewis Mumford offers a useful lens for thinking about the political economy of technological change in an information society. I set out the role…
The World Intellectual Property Organisation and the Development Agenda
In this article the current political debates at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) relating to the proposed “development agenda” are set out and contextualised. Central to the proposal for the WIPO Development Agenda is the need to make the link to the United Nations (of which the WIPO is a Specialised Agency) actually mean something. Thus, at the centre of the WIPO Development Agenda is an engagement with the hitherto accepted …
Interaction between States and Citizens in the Age of the Internet
We examine the origins of the recent shift towards “e‐government” in three cases: the United States, Britain, and the European Union. We set out three heuristic models of interaction between states and citizens that might underpin the practice of “e‐government.” Focusing on U.S., British, and European Union initiatives, we undertake a comparative analysis of the evolution of key policy statements on e‐government reform in national (and supranatio…
Moments in law
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are increasingly recognized as the key economic resource of the future. This has led to considerable discussion of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement which was brokered during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. In this article we present an analysis of a number of key 'moments' in the history of IPRs which eventually led to this particular agreement. We utilize a '…
Neoliberalism, guilt, shame and stigma
The researchers conducted a Lacanian discourse analysis of 21 interviews conducted in 2016 of food bank clients of a large city in a southern U.S. state. The study focused on accounts of food insecure individuals regarding their experiences of stigma, shame, and guilt towards receiving non‐profit food assistance and how those experiences—or lack thereof—might play a role in food bank utilization, given the problematic of why many food insecure ho…
Escaping the TRIPs’ Trap
Across sub-Saharan Africa, the promise of ‘informational development’ is proclaimed. The global governance of intellectual property rights (IPRs), however, currently structured through the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement and overseen by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), makes much software expensive to deploy. There is an alternative: open-source and/or free software ameliorates many of the cost problems …
Cosmopolitan Legalism Meets ‘Thin Community
The making of knowledge and information into property, through intellectual property rights (IPRs) has commonly been justified using a set of cosmopolitan norms. These norms of justification have been extensively deployed within the structures of global governance for IPRs. However, the political community that underpins such norms in national jurisdictions is lacking at the global level. Many of the political problems now recognized with the glo…
Unacceptable Costs
If we think of an author as having a natural right to profit from his work, then we will think of the copier as some sort of thief; whereas if we think of the author as beneficiary of a statutory monopoly, it may be easier to see the copier as an embodiment of free enterprise values
The denial of history
In this article, I examine the impact of the reification of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on the global political economy of information and knowledge. I begin by establishing the central functions that IPRs perform in the global political economy, and then review reification as an analytical tool for the examination of social phenomena. The interrogation of IPRs using the concept of reification raises the issue of the role of anxiety in th…
The Academy's New Electronic Order? Open Source Journals and Publishing Political Science
For many years, the dissemination of academic research has been controlled by commercial publishers. However, in light of the continuing inflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals, many academics are investigating open access publishing over the Internet. Although most advanced in the natural sciences, given its essentially political character, open access publishing should also be carefully considered by political scientists (and as…
Capacity building and the (re)production of intellectual property rights
There is little settled or uncontested about the trips agreement and the global governance of intellectual property rights (iprs). This suggests that the provision of training and technical assistance to build capacity is itself part of the reproduction of the dominant (trips constituted) view of iprs and is therefore a political project rather than merely technical provision. On one side many developing countries' elites and governments are keen…
Strange fruit
(1996). Strange fruit: Susan Strange's theory of structural power in the international political economy. Global Society: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 167-189
Academic publishing and open access
This article briefly sets out a political economy of academic publishing, exploring what the costs and benefits of this model are/were for the academic community. It then moves to explore forms of open access publication available to the social science (politics and international relations) community in the United Kingdom and beyond. The article concludes by asking why (given its likely advantages), the open access model is not ubiquitous and sug…
The Rule of Law
In this review of the late Tom (Lord) Bingham's last book on the Rule of Law I briefly note that the rule of law has become an increasingly normal trope of (global) politics, before setting out Bingham's characterisation of the norm itself. I then ask how we might explain the ascendance of the term (in light of Bingham's lack of interest in the issue), such that Bingham's book might find a mainstream non-academic publisher
The world intellectual property organization
The hypocrisy of forgetfulness
Although often now presented as a potentially universal set of legal principles, the particular history of the initial development of intellectual property rights (IPRs), first in Venice, then subsequently in Britain and across Europe is directly related to Europe's specific history. In this paper, I argue that we cannot separate the development of intellectual property as a legal form from the specific early history of capitalism in Europe. The …
The Political Economy of Proximity
(2002). The Political Economy of Proximity: Intellectual Property and the Global Division of Information Labour. New Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 317-342
Information society, task mobility and the end of work
From international political economy to global political economy. The International Political Economy Yearbook series
Cultivating Standards of Taste
Cultivating Standards of Taste:"Aisthesis" in Liberal Arts and Science Pedagogy Christopher May (bio) and Ryan Wittingslow (bio) In Of the Standard of Taste, David Hume retells a story lifted from Cervantes's Don Quixote Sancho Panza, it is revealed, comes from a family with an excellent capacity for discernment in wine; it is a "quality hereditary" in his line. Indeed, Pancho declares, two of his kinsman on his father's side-the finest tasters i…
Examining the Link Between the Human Microbiome and Antisocial Behavior
Objective: The expansion of technology enables closer examination of human biological functioning which has exponentially increased knowledge about how the human organism interacts with surrounding environs to produce certain behaviors. The contemporary biosocial model pushes crime theorists and researchers alike to consider the many biological factors that may be implicated in violent behavior and how those factors are ameliorated or exacerbated…
The Rule of Law
The World Intellectual Property Organisation and the Development Agenda
In this article the current political debates at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) relating to the proposed “development agenda” are set out and contextualised. Central to the proposal for the WIPO Development Agenda is the need to make the link to the United Nations (of which the WIPO is a Specialised Agency) actually mean something. Thus, at the centre of the WIPO Development Agenda is an engagement with the hitherto accepted …
The World Intellectual Property Organization and the Development Agenda
Until recently it was seldom remarked that for over thirty years World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has been a specialized agency of United Nations. As a specialized agency, WIPO is meant to reflect and respond to priorities set in UN General Assembly--priorities often related to promotion of economic in poorer country members of UN, and that are part of mandate of a number of other specialized agencies. However, WIPO takes a specifi…
Trouble in E-topia
This article looks at the claims made about the city's new workplace, where information-related endeavour is leading to a new world of work. However, this can only be regarded as a positive step in labour relations if the central role of intellectual property in the information age is forgotten or obscured. After briefly laying out the claims made about the new age, the article identifies the continued importance for capitalists of controlling pr…
Feature review
Thinking, buying, selling
(1998). Thinking, buying, selling: Intellectual property rights in political economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 59-78
In the Name of War
Journal Article In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers since 1918 Get access May Christopher N., In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers since 1918. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. viii, 370 pp. $29.95. Fred D. Ragan Fred D. Ragan East Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 34, Issue 2, April …
In the Name of War
Journal Article In the Name of War: Judicial Review and the War Powers since 1918. By Christopher N. May. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989. xii + 370 pp. $29.95.) Get access Michael J. Glennon Michael J. Glennon University of California Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Page 1302, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936680 Published: 01 March …
Strange fruit
(1996). Strange fruit: Susan Strange's theory of structural power in the international political economy. Global Society: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 167-189
From international political economy to global political economy. The International Political Economy Yearbook series
International politics in Europe
Free markets and food riots
Capital, knowledge and ownership
The argument that the information society represents ‘something new’ is predicated on the claim that its use of a new resource — knowledge/information — fundamentally differentiates it from previous systems of capitalism. However the actual organization of the posited information society constructs a widespread recognition of the legitimacy of intellectual property. The article examines the two central claims for transformation made in the inform…
Thinking, buying, selling
(1998). Thinking, buying, selling: Intellectual property rights in political economy. New Political Economy: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 59-78
The Information Society as Mega-Machine
Too often the history of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is wrenched out of the history of technology and presented as something altogether separate and therefore different, rendering previous analyses irrelevant. However, there are sufficient analytical tools to hand without the continual invention of new paradigms to understand the current stage of technological advance. To support this contention, in this article, the continu…
Information Society, Commodities and Continuity
(2000). INFORMATION SOCIETY, COMMODITIES AND CONTINUITY: A response to Professor Frank Webster's information, capitalism and uncertainty. Information, Communication & Society: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 91-94
Feature review
Information society, task mobility and the end of work
Presidential Defiance of "Unconstitutional" Laws
The yet to be authorized 'line item veto' advocated by recent administrations pales in comparison to the 'absolute item veto' already wielded by an 'Imperial Presidency'. When the Executive refuses to enforce disfavored statutes, the effect is a veto without Congressional override. Can such a power be reconciled with our government scheme? A review of the Framer's intent shows that it was believed that the Constitution conferred on the Executive …
(Re)constituting Global Political Economy. The International Political Economy Yearbook series, continued
Moments in law
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are increasingly recognized as the key economic resource of the future. This has led to considerable discussion of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) agreement which was brokered during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations. In this article we present an analysis of a number of key 'moments' in the history of IPRs which eventually led to this particular agreement. We utilize a '…
Authority and Markets
‘Prologue
‘Towards a Theory of Transnational Empire’, 1989
The Venetian Moment
The role of the Venetian republic in the history of intellectual property is not well known although the innovations which were later codified into law by the British Crown, and which are usually regarded as heralding the age of intellectual property, were first developed a century before in Venice. This article explores these precursors to the more commonplace understanding of the origins of intellectual property law, and draws some parallels be…
Unacceptable Costs
If we think of an author as having a natural right to profit from his work, then we will think of the copier as some sort of thief; whereas if we think of the author as beneficiary of a statutory monopoly, it may be easier to see the copier as an embodiment of free enterprise values
The Political Economy of Proximity
(2002). The Political Economy of Proximity: Intellectual Property and the Global Division of Information Labour. New Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 317-342
Trouble in E-topia
This article looks at the claims made about the city's new workplace, where information-related endeavour is leading to a new world of work. However, this can only be regarded as a positive step in labour relations if the central role of intellectual property in the information age is forgotten or obscured. After briefly laying out the claims made about the new age, the article identifies the continued importance for capitalists of controlling pr…
Key Thinkers for the Information Society
Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms
At the centre of the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is a long history of political bargains struck between private rights to reward and the social benefit of information/knowledge diffusion. The historical dynamic of politics in this policy area has been to expand the rights of owners while circumscribing the public realm of information and knowledge. In recent decades the public domain has become merely a residual, all that is…
Interaction between States and Citizens in the Age of the Internet
We examine the origins of the recent shift towards “e‐government” in three cases: the United States, Britain, and the European Union. We set out three heuristic models of interaction between states and citizens that might underpin the practice of “e‐government.” Focusing on U.S., British, and European Union initiatives, we undertake a comparative analysis of the evolution of key policy statements on e‐government reform in national (and supranatio…
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