Keir Milburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keir Milburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keir |
| FAMILY NAME | Milburn |
| SIGNATURE | MILBURN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7804-8977 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A pharmaceutical commons? Producing alterity through public-common partnerships
This paper contributes theorisations of alterity within alternative organisation studies by arguing ‘alterity’ must be understood as a second-order characteristic rather than a quality intrinsic to organisational form. It develops this argument by engaging with recent scholarship focused on the potential for public bodies, especially municipal authorities, to act as enablers of commoning initiatives across various sectors. Public-common partnersh…
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures
This article considers the potential of public–common partnerships (PCPs) to act as a new municipalist intervention against the privatisation and financialisation of land in the UK. In previous publications, we have presented PCPs in abstract terms as a municipalist organisational form that could help communities eschew the disciplinary effects of finance capital to pursue alternative democratic forms of urban development. Here, we start to exami…
Generation Left after Corbynism
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party has allowed age to emerge as a dramatic new axis of political division. This article treats the political generation gap as, in part, a transformation in class composition. Most notably, starting with the political age divide makes recognition of a shift toward an asset-based economy hard to avoid. The economic crisis of 2008, and the British government responses to it, have provoked a contradiction …
The comedian as populist leader: Postironic narratives in an age of cynical irony
In October 2013 during a fractious interview with Jeremy Paxman for the Newsnight TV programme, the comedian Russell Brand called for a revolution against a self-serving political and economic elite. Over the following 18 months Brand became a prominent Left-wing political figure in the UK This paper suggests that Brand’s experience was not isolated but forms part of a wider contemporary trend of comedians becoming populist political leaders. Oth…
On the uses of fairy dust: Contagion, sorcery and the crafting of other worlds
We look to mythic resources to help us narrativise and conceptualise instances of 'affective contagion' within social movements. We first review 'Crowd Theory', from Gustave Le Bon to Freud, and then the mimetics of Richard Dawkins and his followers. We find both theories lacking when it comes to accounting for collective agency. Next we turn to the work of Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, drawing on their conception of capitalist sorcery…
The problem with social movements: A reply to Fournier
This is a reply to:Fournier, Philippe. 2014. “The multitude and localized protest: the example of the Quebec student strike.” Global Discourse. 4 (2–3): 163–178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.923641
Nomad Citizenship, Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Twenty-First Century
We reread E. P. Thompson's remarkable 1971 essay "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the "spasmodic view" of these riots-that they were "nonpolitical" or "prepolitical"-we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular "moral economy" of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters w…
The August riots, shock and the prohibition of thought
In the immediate aftermath of the August 2011 riots discussion of their context and meaning was severely restricted. This paper examines this prohibition on thought through the construction of a concept of shock as an immobilising excess of unexpected information. Positioning this concept within the problematics of contemporary social movements, we then ask how shock absorbers might be built into movement practice by collectivising the reception …
Speaking out: How organizations value and how value organizes
‘There is no alternative!’, declared British prime minister Margaret Thatcher three decades ago. The bald statement, repeated ad nauseam, became neoliberal mantra. It seeks to universalize and naturalize an ethical framework that privileges market value to the exclusion of other values. This ethical framework—or value system—determines the way in which organizations value human actions and, hence, the way that (market) value organizes human relat…
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures
This article considers the potential of public–common partnerships (PCPs) to act as a new municipalist intervention against the privatisation and financialisation of land in the UK. In previous publications, we have presented PCPs in abstract terms as a municipalist organisational form that could help communities eschew the disciplinary effects of finance capital to pursue alternative democratic forms of urban development. Here, we start to exami…
The comedian as populist leader: Postironic narratives in an age of cynical irony
In October 2013 during a fractious interview with Jeremy Paxman for the Newsnight TV programme, the comedian Russell Brand called for a revolution against a self-serving political and economic elite. Over the following 18 months Brand became a prominent Left-wing political figure in the UK This paper suggests that Brand’s experience was not isolated but forms part of a wider contemporary trend of comedians becoming populist political leaders. Oth…
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Twenty-First Century
We reread E. P. Thompson's remarkable 1971 essay "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the "spasmodic view" of these riots-that they were "nonpolitical" or "prepolitical"-we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular "moral economy" of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters w…
On the uses of fairy dust: Contagion, sorcery and the crafting of other worlds
We look to mythic resources to help us narrativise and conceptualise instances of 'affective contagion' within social movements. We first review 'Crowd Theory', from Gustave Le Bon to Freud, and then the mimetics of Richard Dawkins and his followers. We find both theories lacking when it comes to accounting for collective agency. Next we turn to the work of Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, drawing on their conception of capitalist sorcery…
The problem with social movements: A reply to Fournier
This is a reply to:Fournier, Philippe. 2014. “The multitude and localized protest: the example of the Quebec student strike.” Global Discourse. 4 (2–3): 163–178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.923641
The August riots, shock and the prohibition of thought
In the immediate aftermath of the August 2011 riots discussion of their context and meaning was severely restricted. This paper examines this prohibition on thought through the construction of a concept of shock as an immobilising excess of unexpected information. Positioning this concept within the problematics of contemporary social movements, we then ask how shock absorbers might be built into movement practice by collectivising the reception …
Speaking out: How organizations value and how value organizes
‘There is no alternative!’, declared British prime minister Margaret Thatcher three decades ago. The bald statement, repeated ad nauseam, became neoliberal mantra. It seeks to universalize and naturalize an ethical framework that privileges market value to the exclusion of other values. This ethical framework—or value system—determines the way in which organizations value human actions and, hence, the way that (market) value organizes human relat…
The August riots, shock and the prohibition of thought
In the immediate aftermath of the August 2011 riots discussion of their context and meaning was severely restricted. This paper examines this prohibition on thought through the construction of a concept of shock as an immobilising excess of unexpected information. Positioning this concept within the problematics of contemporary social movements, we then ask how shock absorbers might be built into movement practice by collectivising the reception …
Nomad Citizenship, Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Twenty-First Century
We reread E. P. Thompson's remarkable 1971 essay "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the "spasmodic view" of these riots-that they were "nonpolitical" or "prepolitical"-we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular "moral economy" of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters w…
The problem with social movements: A reply to Fournier
This is a reply to:Fournier, Philippe. 2014. “The multitude and localized protest: the example of the Quebec student strike.” Global Discourse. 4 (2–3): 163–178. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2014.923641
On the uses of fairy dust: Contagion, sorcery and the crafting of other worlds
We look to mythic resources to help us narrativise and conceptualise instances of 'affective contagion' within social movements. We first review 'Crowd Theory', from Gustave Le Bon to Freud, and then the mimetics of Richard Dawkins and his followers. We find both theories lacking when it comes to accounting for collective agency. Next we turn to the work of Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, drawing on their conception of capitalist sorcery…
The comedian as populist leader: Postironic narratives in an age of cynical irony
In October 2013 during a fractious interview with Jeremy Paxman for the Newsnight TV programme, the comedian Russell Brand called for a revolution against a self-serving political and economic elite. Over the following 18 months Brand became a prominent Left-wing political figure in the UK This paper suggests that Brand’s experience was not isolated but forms part of a wider contemporary trend of comedians becoming populist political leaders. Oth…
Generation Left after Corbynism
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party has allowed age to emerge as a dramatic new axis of political division. This article treats the political generation gap as, in part, a transformation in class composition. Most notably, starting with the political age divide makes recognition of a shift toward an asset-based economy hard to avoid. The economic crisis of 2008, and the British government responses to it, have provoked a contradiction …
Strategies for a new municipalism: Public–common partnerships against the new enclosures
This article considers the potential of public–common partnerships (PCPs) to act as a new municipalist intervention against the privatisation and financialisation of land in the UK. In previous publications, we have presented PCPs in abstract terms as a municipalist organisational form that could help communities eschew the disciplinary effects of finance capital to pursue alternative democratic forms of urban development. Here, we start to exami…
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future
A pharmaceutical commons? Producing alterity through public-common partnerships
This paper contributes theorisations of alterity within alternative organisation studies by arguing ‘alterity’ must be understood as a second-order characteristic rather than a quality intrinsic to organisational form. It develops this argument by engaging with recent scholarship focused on the potential for public bodies, especially municipal authorities, to act as enablers of commoning initiatives across various sectors. Public-common partnersh…
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