Barry K Gills
Biographic Data
| ID | 153247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry K Gills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry K |
| FAMILY NAME | Gills |
| SIGNATURE | GILLS B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5423-0432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 446 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Transformative resistances to extractivisms
Navigating the pluriversal terrain: Dilemmas, Dynamic Diversities, and Synergies
Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life
Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of "capital," departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue that the current understanding of "value" must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties to capital while acknowledging the ways in which ca…
Pluriversality and beyond: Consolidating radical alternatives to (mal-)development as a Commonist project
This article addresses contradictions in the 'pluriverse' of radical alternatives to maldevelopment, and proposes an integrative framework for fostering productive convergences among its forces. It argues that the 2020s and 2030s will be pivotal decades, in which the current global conjuncture, characterized by intensifying economic turmoil, climate change, and ecological crises, will translate into increased mass discontent, global polarization,…
Introduction: Post-Covid transformations
This article provides an introduction to the special issue on post-COVID transformations. We raise three sets of questions relating to the implications of the pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation. First, what is likely to be the impact of the pandemic on the current global order based on neoliberal hyperglobalization? Se…
Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives
This article examines global extractivisms and transformative alternatives; addressing: (1) access to and control over resources, (2) governance and recognition, (3) environmental-social harms, and (4) justice. The examination of these themes provides an understanding of the sociospatial links between extractivism and differentiated distribution of benefits and burdens. The study sheds light on the politics of recognition, including the discourse…
From extractivism to global extractivism: The Evolution of an Organizing Concept
All the named authors were members of the Helsinki Research Working Group on Global Extractivisms and Alternatives, who jointly constructed this article. Equal authorship by all authors is recognised
Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out
In this editorial postscript, we return to a primary theme of this special issue on Economics and Climate Emergency. We elaborate on some aspects of, and reasons why we need, urgent and radical transformative change. We briefly update the trends affecting climate change and ecological breakdown, assess the need for an end to the ‘war on nature’, which resists a dichotomy between our species and nature and make some comments on the COP process and…
Unity on the Global Left
The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies
This chapter discusses the politics of, by and through hope. Unanticipated global changes have triggered an intensified search for hope, which has become constructed as a response to and resource to draw on in uncertain circumstances. Through its promise of a better future, hope – as a basic human desire – has become a tool deployable for political ends. This chapter investigates how hope can be used not only to facilitate transformations but als…
Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies
Deep Restoration: From The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening
We are living in a time of exception. A time when the existing order is open to question.In this short essay for Globalizations I wish to make some initial reflections in response to the present ‘t
Beyond the critical: Reinventing the radical imagination in transformative development and global(ization) studies
Evidence is mounting of severe planetary and civilizational crises, interrelated and mutually constitutive of one another at unprecedented scales caused by the ‘globalization' of a hegemonic mode of civilizational ‘(mal-)development.' Critical scholarship in both Development and Global(ization) Studies faces numerous challenges. In this article, we argue that critical scholarship needs to be radically transformed to become radically transformativ…
Teaching climate complacency: Mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education
In this paper we ask, what is mainstream economics education conveying to its students? Standard mainstream economics textbooks treat the environment as a specialist issue in addition to standard concerns and based on solutions that conform to those standard concerns. When viewed as socialisation for students this is a major problem. To illustrate the problems we set out key aspects of the standard format, and draw attention to the structure and …
Economics and climate emergency
In this essay we provide introductory comment for the collection of solicited essays on Economics and Climate Emergency. In the first section we suggest that recent critique of the climate movement has broader systemic significance and this is indicative of issues that bear on the collected essays. In the following section we rehearse some of the standard arguments leading to complacency and delay to action on climate change and ecological breakd…
Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies
President Trump as status dysfunction
In this brief polemic we argue that Trump’s words, actions and inactions are potentially deeply damaging to the legitimacy of the office he holds and to the continuity of the institutions defining that position. This, writ large, is an issue for organization theory. We use Searle’s concept of status functions to argue that Trump invokes problems of status dysfunction. He has failed to place himself in a position to be competent and does not confo…
Global Climate Emergency: After COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity
This Special Editorial on the Climate Emergency makes the case that although we are living in the time of Global Climate Emergency we are not yet acting as if we are in an imminent crisis. The authors review key aspects of the institutional response and climate science over the past several decades and the role of the economic system in perpetuating inertia on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Humanity is now the primary influence on the pla…
In search of unity: A new politics of solidarity and action for confronting the crisis of global capitalism
This essay is an introduction to a Special Forum by critical scholar-activists responding to the late Samir Amin’s call for the establishment of a new political vehicle that would be capable of uniting diverse progressive and revolutionary movements consisting of the workers and peoples of the whole world. The purpose of this vehicle would be to confront and radically transform a global capitalist order in deep crisis. The authors of these essays…
Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts
Whether we talk about human learning and unlearning, securitization, or political economy, the forces and mechanisms generating both globalization and disintegration are causally efficacious across the world. Thus, the processes that led to the victory of the ‘Leave’ campaign in the June 2016 referendum on UK European Union membership are not simply confined to the United Kingdom, or even Europe. Similarly, conflict in Ukraine and the presidency …
Theorizing alternatives to capital: Towards a critical cosmopolitanist framework1
We are living in an era of multiple crises, multiple social resistances, and multiple cosmopolitanisms. The post-Cold War context has generated a plethora of movements, but no single unifying ideology or global political program has yet materialized. The historical confrontation between capital and its alternatives, however, continues to pose new possibilities for social and systemic transformations. Critical analysis of ideological divisions amo…
Toward Transversal Cosmopolitanism: Understanding Alternative Praxes in the Global Field of Transformative Movements
This article critically reflects on theoretical dilemmas of conceptualizing recent ideological shifts and contention among global transformative movements. Some studies conceptualize these movements as ideologically mature and coherent, while other inquiries highlight disorganization, fragmentation, disillusion, and dispute. The former line of argument suggests that underlying emerging global solidarities—to the extent they genuinely exist—there …
The Future of Development from Global Crises to Global Convergence
The twenty-first century carries huge potential to be radically different from the nineteenth and twentieth. In this new global era, humanity possesses extraordinary material means as well as unpre
South–South cooperation and the rise of the Global South
In this introductory article we examine the recent resurgence of South–South cooperation, which has moved once again onto the centre stage of world politics and economics, leading to a renewed interest in its historic promise to transform world order. We provide an overview of contemporary debates surrounding this resurgence, noting in particular the division between those who are optimistic with regard to the potential of Southern economic devel…
Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky
In this interview Boris Kagarlitsky discusses the significance of contemporary ideas surrounding South–South Relations, the continuities and discontinuities between the ‘global South’ and previous notions of the ‘Third World’, and whether such changes in the world economy of over the past half a century can be understood as a form of hegemonic transition. Kagarlitsky also addresses the role of the various social forces and movements of the global…
From extractivism to global extractivism: The Evolution of an Organizing Concept
All the named authors were members of the Helsinki Research Working Group on Global Extractivisms and Alternatives, who jointly constructed this article. Equal authorship by all authors is recognised
South–South cooperation and the rise of the Global South
In this introductory article we examine the recent resurgence of South–South cooperation, which has moved once again onto the centre stage of world politics and economics, leading to a renewed interest in its historic promise to transform world order. We provide an overview of contemporary debates surrounding this resurgence, noting in particular the division between those who are optimistic with regard to the potential of Southern economic devel…
Global extractivisms and transformative alternatives
This article examines global extractivisms and transformative alternatives; addressing: (1) access to and control over resources, (2) governance and recognition, (3) environmental-social harms, and (4) justice. The examination of these themes provides an understanding of the sociospatial links between extractivism and differentiated distribution of benefits and burdens. The study sheds light on the politics of recognition, including the discourse…
Low intensity democracy
By evoking the US counter-insurgency catch phrase 'low intensity conflict', it is out intention to show that perhaps more than at any other time in the recent past, today the struggle to define 'democracy' has become a major ideological battle. 'Democracy' has replaced 'development' as the buzzword for the 1990s. Democracy seems to be sweeping the globe, driving before it both communist party dictatorships and rightist military regimes on every c…
Global Climate Emergency: After COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity
This Special Editorial on the Climate Emergency makes the case that although we are living in the time of Global Climate Emergency we are not yet acting as if we are in an imminent crisis. The authors review key aspects of the institutional response and climate science over the past several decades and the role of the economic system in perpetuating inertia on reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Humanity is now the primary influence on the pla…
Paths to a historicized international political economy
As a field of study, international political economy suffers from a significant historical deficit. Where this deficit is recognized, it is most commonly addressed by adding 'historical context' to the inquiry, as in the injunction to place globalization into its proper historical context. While this is a useful and necessary first step, it does not adequately address the problem of 'historicizing' IPE. In order to genuinely historicize IPE, we m…
Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations
The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyse the contradiction between globalising and territorially-based social and political forces in the context of past, present and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a 'triple crisis' involving…
Economics and climate emergency
In this essay we provide introductory comment for the collection of solicited essays on Economics and Climate Emergency. In the first section we suggest that recent critique of the climate movement has broader systemic significance and this is indicative of issues that bear on the collected essays. In the following section we rehearse some of the standard arguments leading to complacency and delay to action on climate change and ecological breakd…
Overturning ‘Globalisation’: Resisting the teleological, reclaiming the ‘political’
(1997). Overturning ‘Globalisation’: Resisting the teleological, reclaiming the ‘political’. New Political Economy: Vol. 2, Globlisation and the politics of resistance, pp. 179-195
Are All Politics Domestic? Perspectives on the Integration of Comparative Politics and International Relations Theories
Empire’ versus ‘Cosmopolis’: The clash of globalizations
‘How can there be laughter, how can there be pleasure, when the whole world is burning? When you are in deep darkness, will you not ask for a lamp?’ Siddhartha Gautama, (the Buddha) from The Dhamm
Deep Restoration: From The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening
We are living in a time of exception. A time when the existing order is open to question.In this short essay for Globalizations I wish to make some initial reflections in response to the present ‘t
Teaching climate complacency: Mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education
In this paper we ask, what is mainstream economics education conveying to its students? Standard mainstream economics textbooks treat the environment as a specialist issue in addition to standard concerns and based on solutions that conform to those standard concerns. When viewed as socialisation for students this is a major problem. To illustrate the problems we set out key aspects of the standard format, and draw attention to the structure and …
Toward Transversal Cosmopolitanism: Understanding Alternative Praxes in the Global Field of Transformative Movements
This article critically reflects on theoretical dilemmas of conceptualizing recent ideological shifts and contention among global transformative movements. Some studies conceptualize these movements as ideologically mature and coherent, while other inquiries highlight disorganization, fragmentation, disillusion, and dispute. The former line of argument suggests that underlying emerging global solidarities—to the extent they genuinely exist—there …
People Power in the Era of Global Crisis: Rebellion, resistance, and liberation
This article examines the relationship between oppression, injustice, and liberation both theoretically and practically and in relation to contemporary global events and political history. The struggle for human freedom and liberation from structures of oppression and exploitation, and the relation to democracy and to the agents of social change, is the central subject of the analysis. The article summarises the critical analyses of the contribut…
The Swinging of the Pendulum: The Global Crisis and Beyond
Economic liberalisation and reform in South Korea in the 1990s: A 'coming of age' or a case of 'graduation blues
(1996). Economic liberalisation and reform in South Korea in the 1990s: A 'coming of age' or a case of 'graduation blues'? Third World Quarterly: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 667-688
Beyond the critical: Reinventing the radical imagination in transformative development and global(ization) studies
Evidence is mounting of severe planetary and civilizational crises, interrelated and mutually constitutive of one another at unprecedented scales caused by the ‘globalization' of a hegemonic mode of civilizational ‘(mal-)development.' Critical scholarship in both Development and Global(ization) Studies faces numerous challenges. In this article, we argue that critical scholarship needs to be radically transformed to become radically transformativ…
The Return of Crisis in the Era of Globalization: One Crisis, or Many
The crisis of postwar East Asian capitalism: American power, democracy and the vicissitudes of globalization
The debate over the East Asian crisis has thus far been led by economists who have focused on technical economic issues and policy goals at the expense of macro historical-structural questions. Foremost amongst the neglected questions is whether and under what conditions ‘Postwar East Asian Capitalism’ (PWEAC) will either continue to flourish or undergo a radical political transformation ‘after the crisis’. This question must be understood in the…
Pluriversality and beyond: Consolidating radical alternatives to (mal-)development as a Commonist project
This article addresses contradictions in the 'pluriverse' of radical alternatives to maldevelopment, and proposes an integrative framework for fostering productive convergences among its forces. It argues that the 2020s and 2030s will be pivotal decades, in which the current global conjuncture, characterized by intensifying economic turmoil, climate change, and ecological crises, will translate into increased mass discontent, global polarization,…
Democratizing Globalization and Globalizing Democracy
The article begins with a critique of the failure of the present world order, based on its exclusivity and reliance on a traditional international relations paradigm, including nationalism and cultural particularism. The post-cold war impetus toward universal liberalism has brought about conditions rendering this paradigm untenable. Globalization requires a new political order if universal economic liberalism is to be stable. However, there remai…
Sustainable democracy: Formalism vs substance
(1993). Sustainable democracy: Formalism vs substance. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 415-422
Capital Redefined: A Commonist Value Theory for Liberating Life
Capital Redefined presents a unique perspective on the nature of "capital," departing from the prevailing reductionist accounts. Hosseini and Gills offer an expanded perspective on Marxian value theory by addressing its main limitations and building their own integrative value theory. They argue that the current understanding of "value" must be re-examined and liberated from its subservient ties to capital while acknowledging the ways in which ca…
Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out
In this editorial postscript, we return to a primary theme of this special issue on Economics and Climate Emergency. We elaborate on some aspects of, and reasons why we need, urgent and radical transformative change. We briefly update the trends affecting climate change and ecological breakdown, assess the need for an end to the ‘war on nature’, which resists a dichotomy between our species and nature and make some comments on the COP process and…
El Salvador in Crisis: Indigenous Conflict and Foreign Intervention
The coup that never happened: The anatomy of the “death” of Kim Il Sung
The fate of Kim Il Sung remained a mystery tonight after a day of intense speculation and whirling rumours in Seoul and Tokyo that the North Korean leader had been overthrown, assassinated, or both
Fracturing socialism: A fragile future
North Korea and the crisis of socialism: The historical ironies of national division
(1992). North Korea and the crisis of socialism: The historical ironies of national division. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 13, Rethinking Socialism, pp. 107-130
Low intensity democracy
By evoking the US counter-insurgency catch phrase 'low intensity conflict', it is out intention to show that perhaps more than at any other time in the recent past, today the struggle to define 'democracy' has become a major ideological battle. 'Democracy' has replaced 'development' as the buzzword for the 1990s. Democracy seems to be sweeping the globe, driving before it both communist party dictatorships and rightist military regimes on every c…
Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations
The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyse the contradiction between globalising and territorially-based social and political forces in the context of past, present and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a 'triple crisis' involving…
Sustainable democracy: Formalism vs substance
(1993). Sustainable democracy: Formalism vs substance. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 415-422
Approaches from a Historical Materialist Tradition
Approaches from a Historical Materialist Tradition Get access Robert Cox, Robert Cox York University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Henk Overbeek, Henk Overbeek University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Barry Gills, Barry Gills University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Transcending the State-Global Divide: A Neostructuralist Agenda in International Relations
Part 1: States and Regions in the Face of the Global Capitalist Crisis, A. Lipietz State and Society in International Relations, R. Palan. Part 2: World Economic Interpretation of European Politics, A. Gunder Frank The Reich Resurrected? - Continuity and Order in German Expansion, K. Van der Pijl The International Origins of South Korea's Export Orientation, B. Gills Swedish Social-Democracy and the World Market, L. Wilde The Infrastructure of th…
Economic liberalisation and reform in South Korea in the 1990s: A 'coming of age' or a case of 'graduation blues
(1996). Economic liberalisation and reform in South Korea in the 1990s: A 'coming of age' or a case of 'graduation blues'? Third World Quarterly: Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 667-688
Transcending the State-Global Divide: A Neostructuralist Agenda in International Relations
Are All Politics Domestic? Perspectives on the Integration of Comparative Politics and International Relations Theories
Overturning ‘Globalisation’: Resisting the teleological, reclaiming the ‘political’
(1997). Overturning ‘Globalisation’: Resisting the teleological, reclaiming the ‘political’. New Political Economy: Vol. 2, Globlisation and the politics of resistance, pp. 179-195
Globalization and the Politics of Resistance
List of Tables and Figures Foreword: The Social Left and the Market System J.K.Galbraith Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Notes on the Contributors PART I: GLOBALIZATION AND RESISTANCE: THINKING THROUGH POLITICS Introduction: Globalization and the Politics of Resistance B.K.Gills Overturning 'Globalization': Resisting Teleology, Reclaiming Politics L.Amoore, R.Dodgson, B.K.Gills, P.Langley, D.Marshall & I.Watson Conceptualizing Resistance to Glo…
The crisis of postwar East Asian capitalism: American power, democracy and the vicissitudes of globalization
The debate over the East Asian crisis has thus far been led by economists who have focused on technical economic issues and policy goals at the expense of macro historical-structural questions. Foremost amongst the neglected questions is whether and under what conditions ‘Postwar East Asian Capitalism’ (PWEAC) will either continue to flourish or undergo a radical political transformation ‘after the crisis’. This question must be understood in the…
Paths to a historicized international political economy
As a field of study, international political economy suffers from a significant historical deficit. Where this deficit is recognized, it is most commonly addressed by adding 'historical context' to the inquiry, as in the injunction to place globalization into its proper historical context. While this is a useful and necessary first step, it does not adequately address the problem of 'historicizing' IPE. In order to genuinely historicize IPE, we m…
World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change
List of figures List of tables List of contributors An Introduction to World System History: Toward a social science of long-term change Robert A. Denemark, Jonathan Friedman, Barry K. Gills and George Modelski Part 1: General Perspectives on World System History 1. The Five Thousand Year World System in Theory and Praxis Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills 2. World System Evolution George Modelski 3. Civilizations, World Systems and Hegemonies…
Democratizing Globalization and Globalizing Democracy
The article begins with a critique of the failure of the present world order, based on its exclusivity and reliance on a traditional international relations paradigm, including nationalism and cultural particularism. The post-cold war impetus toward universal liberalism has brought about conditions rendering this paradigm untenable. Globalization requires a new political order if universal economic liberalism is to be stable. However, there remai…
The turning of the tide
Over two centuries ago, in the year 1776, the historian Edward Gibbon published the first volume of his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which he entitled ‘The Turn of the Tide’
Humanity at the crossroads: The globalization of environmental crisis
In Memoriam: Andre Gunder Frank (24 February 1929 to 23 April 2005)
Andre Gunder Frank, perhaps the most prolific and controversial development economist and sociologist of the post-war era, best known as the author of ‘Dependency’ theory, died on Saturday in Luxem
Empire’ versus ‘Cosmopolis’: The clash of globalizations
‘How can there be laughter, how can there be pleasure, when the whole world is burning? When you are in deep darkness, will you not ask for a lamp?’ Siddhartha Gautama, (the Buddha) from The Dhamm
Globalization and global history
The global politics of justice
Accepting Difference, Finding Tolerance, Practising Dialogue
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