Adam David Morton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 160763 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Adam David Morton |
| PRENOMES | Adam David |
| SOBRENOME | Morton |
| ASSINATURA | MORTON A D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1003-8101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 76 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 789 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 76 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Totality must be defended
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life. By contrast, this article makes an intervention in economic geography debates by refuting this analysis as largely misguided. The article makes the ca…
Value theory in the country and the city
This special issue on ‘Value Theory in the Country and the City’ sets out to further a conversation about value and to do so by accepting the view that there are multiple ‘lives’ of value, which include Marx’s theory of capital as well as extending beyond it. Pragmatically, this issue is timely. Discussion of value in relation to the centrality of ground rent to uneven development, agrarian reform of the rural and resource extraction has become m…
The dialectical matrix of class, gender, race
Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature of capitalism? Is discrimination based on race in-built into the reproduction of racial capitalism? By assessing wider contributions within and between Marxism Feminism and Black Marxism, this paper seeks to address the multiple oppressions of class, patriarchy, and race. Intersectional and dual-systems theorising establishes an analytical differentiation of patriarchy and capitalism, or capit…
Introduction to ‘The Lukács Question
Not for the first time, certain stakes came to the boil again in the 1950s surrounding what became referred to as the ‘Lukács question’, namely the position of Georg Lukács under the shadow of Stalinism. What follows is an interview by Patrick Tort with Henri Lefebvre on the ‘Lukács question’, arising from an earlier lecture delivered by the latter in Hungary in 1955. The interview is important for the light it sheds on the power of truth in rela…
Hothousing for development
This article refocuses attention on issues of mid-20th century state-led development and the role of development banks in shaping capitalist expansion. More specifically, a general recasting of attention back to the era of Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI) is underway in light of contemporary debates about 'mixed economies' in constituting state-led developmentalism. Mixed economies are held to conjoin public and private interests and t…
The new age of catastrophe
In it, Callinicos's innovative reading of Nikolai Bukharin underpinned a theory of imperialism at the intersection of two logics of power or two forms of competition: economic and geopolitical.In a recent article, I revisited Callinicos's originality to demonstrate how unique Marxist approaches to both the structural theory of anarchy and racial capitalism have been silenced by mainstream imitators, namely, Kenneth Waltz and E. H. Carr (see 'Main…
What is this thing called passive revolution
Mainstreaming Marxism
This article carves out a focus on certain authorized mainstream perspectives and their theorizations of world order, and how they have become dominant at the expense of excluded and silenced contributions. This task begins, first, by asserting that the anarchic conditions of world order have been mainstreamed at the expense of contributions to Marxist political economy. Here, my focus extends the methodological approach of juxtaposition to explo…
The life-nerve of the dialectic
One hundred years that shook the world. This is one way of receiving History and Class Consciousness by György Lukács, a text that is considered by many to be one of the most important in Marxist philosophy and dialectics since its first appearance in 1923. However, in approaching its centenary, how does the focus on dialectics that is at the text’s centre travel to address contemporary interdisciplinary concerns in political economy and radical …
Reflexões sobre o desenvolvimento desigual
Um enfoque sobre as transformações nas relações sociais de propriedade e a associação com debates históricosociológicos sobre a formação do Estado moderno podem contribuir para o entendimento das origens sociais da transição para o capitalismo no México. A base para a produção capitalista foi criada ali por acumulação primitiva sob condições de desenvolvimento desigual e combinado. Esta situação pode ser entendida como uma "revolução passiva" bas…
A Geography of Blood Meridian
Gate-opening political economy
Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender
The contributions of Ellen Meiksins Wood to social property relations arguments have facilitated an enhanced understanding of the historical specificity of capitalism and its structuring conditions. Yet such arguments also have some questionable assumptions when it comes to theorising gender and so-called 'extra-economic' identities, most noticeably regarding capitalism as indifferent to gender relations. This article delves into such issues by d…
Interlocuções Com a Revolução Passiva
Este artigo se engaja criticamente com os debates sobre o desenvolvimento desigual e combinado e particularmente a falta de atenção dada nesta literatura às considerações da diversidade espacial na expansão externa do capitalismo, bem como as questões de eurocentrismo. Por meio de interlocuções com Antonio Gramsci sobre sua teorização da formação do Estado e da modernidade capitalista e a noção de revolução passiva, extraímos a relação interna en…
Reading for Class
This article contends that the arguments developed within and beyond Development and Globalization: A Marxian Class Analysis are vital to the project of building twenty-first century socialism. My surveying of David Ruccio’s scholarship as well as the wider Rethinking Marxism project argues that both are indispensable reading for class, in a twofold sense. First, such interventions are indispensable reading for class in that they shape classrooms…
EU Aggregate Demand As a Way out of Crisis? Engaging the Post‐Keynesian Critique
Post‐Keynesians have delivered an important advance in providing explanations of the Eurozone crisis, not the least in demonstrating how the formation of the European integration project lacked the means to manage effectively the macroeconomic imbalances between core and peripheral spaces across the region. Through a critical engagement with such descriptions, this article argues that to account more adequately for the formation of the asymmetric…
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
Questioning the utopian springs of market economy
This volume brings together papers that were initially presented, or otherwise have their origins, in an international conference ‘Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy’, held at the Un
The great trasformismo
The purpose of this article is to explore the commonalities and differences between Karl Polanyi and Antonio Gramsci in their assessment of the origins of fascism as located within the rise of capitalism in the nineteenth century and its structural impasse in the twentieth century. Specifically, the aim is to trace a set of associations between Polanyi and Gramsci on the transformations wrought across the states-system of Europe prior to the cris…
Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
Interlocutions with passive revolution
This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and particularly the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism's outward expansion as well as issues of Eurocentrism. Through interlocutions with Antonio Gramsci on his theorising of state formation and capitalist modernity and the notion of passive revolution, we draw out the internal relationship between the structurin…
The Urban Revolution in Victor Serge
The Russian Revolution was an example of what one of its participant-witnesses, John Reed, called “intensified history.” At the same time as Ten Days That Shook the World was published, another of the Russian Revolution's witness-chroniclers was documenting the transformations of space in Red Petrograd under the name of Victor Serge (1890–1947). By analyzing the space of the city and the condition of urban revolution in the writings of Victor Ser…
The Architecture of 'Passive Revolution
This article analyses the political economy of Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'state space' with specific attention directed towards the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City, completed in 1938. The conditions of modernity can be generally related to the spatial ordering of urban landscapes within capital cities conjoining the specifics of national identity with imitative processes. Antonio Gramsci captured such sentiments through his understand…
Gramsci and ‘the International’
Situated within a historical materialist understanding of social transformation and deploying many insights from Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break with mainstream International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) approaches emerged in the early 1980s in the work of Robert Cox.1 This provided a key inspiration for the emergence of what became known, along with a few other names, as an identifiable ‘neo-Gramscian’ literature of …
The Who of Power
How is the causative role of ideas appreciated in understanding the political economy of neoliberalism? What are the origin stories of neoliberalism and how are these related to the periodisation of capitalism? Is there a role for an explicit normative perspective in critiquing neoliberalism as a set of class relations? These broad questions are raised in this feature review, which looks at the latest work on the durability of embedded neoliberal…
Unravelling Gramsci
Historicising representations of 'failed states
This article examines the rise of various representations of postcolonial states to highlight how thinking and practice that arose and prevailed during the Cold War still persists in the present ostensibly post-cold war era. After initially outlining the historical construction of the social sciences, it is shown how the annexation of the social sciences evolved in the early post-World War II and cold-war era as an adjunct of the world hegemonic …
The Deficits of Discourse in IPE
This article engages with the debate on how the role of ideas can be conceptualized within International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) and how this is related to the discursive production of meanings embedded in the economy. It is argued that although constructivist and poststructuralist approaches can conceptualize the structural relevance of ideas, thereby improving on neorealist and liberal institutionalist approache…
Globalisation, the State and Class Struggle
This article explores common commitments between competing historical materialist perspectives within International Political Economy (IPE). It does so by engaging with the approach of Open Marxism that has emerged as the basis of a radical rethinking of theories of the state, the dialectic of subject-object and theory-practice, as well as commitments to emancipating the social world. Despite these contributions, though, there has been a sonorous…
The continuum of passive revolution
Some aspects of the Southern question' (1926) established a strain of thought in Antonio Gramsci's questioning of conditions of uneven and combined development in Italy, which encompassed complex relations of class stratification, racial domination, colonial rule, the social function of intellectuals, and how best to mobilise against the bourgeois state. This strain of thought was then extended, in his carceral research, through his sustained and…
Historicizing Gramsci
Across debates within political and international theory similar demands have been made concerning the need to 'historicize' the theoretical and practical legacy of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Yet little attention has been hitherto granted to the substantive ontological and epistemological basis of such demands. By outlining a series of interpretative controversies and examining in detail the question of historicizing Gramsci, this artic…
Waiting for Gramsci
This article asserts that Antonio Gramsci's account of 'the international' linked to the rise of the modern capitalist states-system remains neglected within debates on the historical sociology of International Relations (IR). It does so by following two main axes of inquiry that assist the aim of unravelling Gramsci's relevance to understanding processes of state formation within the causal conditioning of `the international'. The first axis foc…
From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism
This article deals with the growing policymaking interest in the condition of ‘failed states’ and the calls for increased intervention as a means of coping with international terrorism. It starts by highlighting the inordinate attention initially granted to the threat posed by ‘rogue states’ to the neglect of ‘failed states’. Generally, it is argued that the prevalence of such notions has to be related to a persistence of Cold War discourse on st…
Structural change and neoliberalism in Mexico
This article examines an enduring context of 'passive revolution' in the making of modern Mexico by developing an account of the rise of neoliberalism during a period of structural change since the 1970s. It does so by analysing and understanding both the unfolding accumulation strategy and the hegemonic project of neoliberalism in Mexico since the 1970s as emblematic of the survival and reorganisation of capitalism through a period of state cris…
La Resurrección del Maíz
This article develops an analysis of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, active in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Taking recent reflections on neoliberal globalisation and resistance as its point of departure, questions are raised about how the EZLN movement is a response to specific historical circumstances in Chiapas; how the EZLN is a response to the restructuring of the capitalist system on a global scale; and how it is pro…
A critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change
Situated within a historical materialist problematic of social transformation that deploys many of the insights of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break emerged, in the 1980s, in the work of Robert Cox from mainstream International Relations (IR) approaches to hegemony. This article provides a comprehensive 'state-of-the-discipline' overview of this critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change. It does so by…
The Gordian Knot of Agency—Structure in International Relations
The agent-structure debate has proceeded in International Relations for some time now. Within an initial `first wave' of debate, this revolved around proposing various `solutions' to the problem of how to appreciate the mutually constitutive relationship between agency and structure. The ensuing debate was then characterized by an apparent intellectual cul-de-sac. There were always `two stories to tell' about agency and structure — one an explana…
Reflections on Uneven Development
A focus on transformations in social property relations and engagement with historical sociological debates on modern state formation can contribute to an understanding of the social origins of the transition to capitalism in Mexico. The basis for capitalist production there was created by primitive accumulation under the conditions of uneven and combined development. This situation can be understood as a "passive revolution" based on state inter…
Spaces of Uneven Development and Class Struggle in Bolivia
This article engages with the politics of class struggle and state formation in modern Bolivia. It examines how current forms of political contestation are shaped by the legacy of the Revolution of 1952 and the subsequent path of development. In so doing, we therefore explore spaces of uneven and combined development in relation to ongoing transformations in Bolivia linked to emergent class strategies of passive revolution, meaning processes of h…
Disputing the geopolitics of the states system and global capitalism
Alex Callinicos's intervention in the debate on the geopolitics of the states system and capitalist modernity provides a crucial wake-up call to International Relations theory and practice. Yet, within the contending positions he outlines disputing the political economy of geopolitical conflict, inter-state rivalry and capitalist imperialism, the insights of Antonio Gramsci are notably absent. This article contributes to the debate by elaborating…
Thinking Past Henri Lefebvre
This introduction to the translation of Henri Lefebvre's 1956 essay "The theory of ground rent and rural Sociology" moves through three stages. First, it suggests that Anglophone appropriations of Lefebvre have tended to focus too much on his urban writings, at the expense of understanding his early work on rural sociology, and failing to recognise how his urban focus emerged as a result of his interest in rural-urban transformation. Second, it p…
Social Forces in the Struggle over Hegemony
(2003). Social Forces in the Struggle over Hegemony: Neo-Gramscian Perspectives in International Political Economy. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 153-179
The Social Function of Carlos Fuentes
This article seeks to raise meaningful questions about the role, or wider social function, of the intellectual within state-civil society relations in Latin America characterised by conditions of socio-economic modernisation. It does so by pursuing such questions through a detailed examination of the social function of Carlos Fuentes as an intellectual in Mexico. Through a focus on the social function of Carlos Fuentes, it is possible to distingu…
The Grimly Comic Riddle of Hegemony in IPE
This contribution reflects on the current state of ‘critical’ international political economy (IPE) by contesting the prevailing dominance of liberal pluralist analysis and its overriding commitment to defining the social as an arena of multiple, competing and individuated identities. While ubiquitously invoked, what exactly does the ‘critical’ prefix represent? My argument is that much ‘critical’ analysis in IPE is a liberal pluralist flag of co…
The War on Drugs in Mexico
This article focuses on the continued attractiveness of ‘failed state’ strategic thinking that stretches across policy-making and academic circles and links it to the issue of the War on Drugs in Mexico. It does so in order to challenge, if not reject, caricatured representations of ‘failed states’. Moreover, it offers an alternative understanding of the War on Drugs and issues of state crisis in Mexico. Rather than assume that state power is roo…
Interlocutions with passive revolution
This article critically engages with debates on uneven and combined development and particularly the lack of attention given in this literature to accounts of spatial diversity in capitalism's outward expansion as well as issues of Eurocentrism. Through interlocutions with Antonio Gramsci on his theorising of state formation and capitalist modernity and the notion of passive revolution, we draw out the internal relationship between the structurin…
Uneven and Combined Development and Unequal Exchange
With capitalist social relations emerging in a prior system of absolutist states in Europe, the outward expansion of capitalism through conditions of uneven and combined development became dependent on the existence of multiple political entities. States in turn are brought into relations of unequal exchange within the global economy. This article analyses the way in which current neoliberal ‘free trade’ policies are related to these fundamental …
The Limits of Sociological Marxism
Within the agenda of historical-materialist theory and practice Sociological Marxism has delivered a compelling perspective on how to explore and link the analysis of civil society, the state, and the economy within an explicit focus on class exploitation, emancipation, and rich ethnography. This article situates a major analysis of state formation, the rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), and the growth of a broader Islamist movement…
Another Europe is possible’? Labour and social movements at the European social forum
The first European Social Forum (ESF) held in Florence, Italy from 6 to 10 November 2002 brought together a diverse array of so-called ‘anti-capitalist’ movements including trade unions, new, radical unions and social movements to contest the agenda of neoliberalism as it is presented within and beyond processes of European integration. This article evaluates the ESF and the possibilities for cooperation between labour and social movements in for…
The Age of Absolutism
Understanding the origins of capitalism in terms of feudal crisis, agrarian class structures and economic development in Europe has been an enduring concern of a growing body of scholarship focusing on changes in social property relations. This work has been distinctive in highlighting long-term patterns of social property relations central to shaping late medieval and early modern Europe, variegated patterns of serfdom within feudalism, class co…
On Gramsci
The writings of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci have garnered a great deal of interest across debates in both political theory and International Political Economy (IPE). Yet, despite the diversity of issues raised by such debates, similar arguments have been made that are pertinent to anyone interested in understanding the philosophy and strategic importance of Gramsci. The claim here is that similar demands have been made to return Gramsci t…
The Sociology of Theorising and Neo-Gramscian Perspectives
Over a number of years an alternative theoretical approach has developed within International Political Economy (IPE) that has advanced upon the general conceptual framework of Antonio Gramsci to explain the operation of hegemony at the international level as well as to consider change and transformation in world order. This alternative framework was outlined in Chapter 1. It is the intention of this chapter to reflect more broadly on the diverse…
Introduction
After two decades of relative stagnation, European integration experienced a dramatic revival in the mid-1980s. In 1985, the Commission published its famous White Paper, Completing the Internal Market, which proposed 300 (later reduced to 279) measures designed to facilitate progress towards the completion of the Internal Market by 1992 through the abolition of non-tariff barriers. The Single European Act (SEA) of 1987 not only spelt out the goal…
Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe
Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe
A Comparative Analysis of Splits in the Austrian, Norwegian and Swedish Labour Movements over EU Membership A.Bieler & S.Torjesen Neo-Liberal Regionalism and the Management of People's Mobility H.Pellerin & H.Overbeek PART IV: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND THE EXPANSION OF NEO-LIBERALISM BEYOND THE EU The Enlargement of the European Union Towards Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Supranational and Transnational Actors O.Holman What Happened to t…
The Gordian Knot of Agency—Structure in International Relations
The agent-structure debate has proceeded in International Relations for some time now. Within an initial `first wave' of debate, this revolved around proposing various `solutions' to the problem of how to appreciate the mutually constitutive relationship between agency and structure. The ensuing debate was then characterized by an apparent intellectual cul-de-sac. There were always `two stories to tell' about agency and structure — one an explana…
La Resurrección del Maíz
This article develops an analysis of the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, active in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico. Taking recent reflections on neoliberal globalisation and resistance as its point of departure, questions are raised about how the EZLN movement is a response to specific historical circumstances in Chiapas; how the EZLN is a response to the restructuring of the capitalist system on a global scale; and how it is pro…
Historicising representations of 'failed states
This article examines the rise of various representations of postcolonial states to highlight how thinking and practice that arose and prevailed during the Cold War still persists in the present ostensibly post-cold war era. After initially outlining the historical construction of the social sciences, it is shown how the annexation of the social sciences evolved in the early post-World War II and cold-war era as an adjunct of the world hegemonic …
Neo-Gramscianische Perspektiven
Globalisation, the State and Class Struggle
This article explores common commitments between competing historical materialist perspectives within International Political Economy (IPE). It does so by engaging with the approach of Open Marxism that has emerged as the basis of a radical rethinking of theories of the state, the dialectic of subject-object and theory-practice, as well as commitments to emancipating the social world. Despite these contributions, though, there has been a sonorous…
Historicizing Gramsci
Across debates within political and international theory similar demands have been made concerning the need to 'historicize' the theoretical and practical legacy of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Yet little attention has been hitherto granted to the substantive ontological and epistemological basis of such demands. By outlining a series of interpretative controversies and examining in detail the question of historicizing Gramsci, this artic…
Social Forces in the Struggle over Hegemony
(2003). Social Forces in the Struggle over Hegemony: Neo-Gramscian Perspectives in International Political Economy. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 153-179
Structural change and neoliberalism in Mexico
This article examines an enduring context of 'passive revolution' in the making of modern Mexico by developing an account of the rise of neoliberalism during a period of structural change since the 1970s. It does so by analysing and understanding both the unfolding accumulation strategy and the hegemonic project of neoliberalism in Mexico since the 1970s as emblematic of the survival and reorganisation of capitalism through a period of state cris…
The Social Function of Carlos Fuentes
This article seeks to raise meaningful questions about the role, or wider social function, of the intellectual within state-civil society relations in Latin America characterised by conditions of socio-economic modernisation. It does so by pursuing such questions through a detailed examination of the social function of Carlos Fuentes as an intellectual in Mexico. Through a focus on the social function of Carlos Fuentes, it is possible to distingu…
Another Europe is possible’? Labour and social movements at the European social forum
The first European Social Forum (ESF) held in Florence, Italy from 6 to 10 November 2002 brought together a diverse array of so-called ‘anti-capitalist’ movements including trade unions, new, radical unions and social movements to contest the agenda of neoliberalism as it is presented within and beyond processes of European integration. This article evaluates the ESF and the possibilities for cooperation between labour and social movements in for…
Unthinking Materialism
From ‘Rogue’ to ‘Failed’ States? The Fallacy of Short-termism
This article deals with the growing policymaking interest in the condition of ‘failed states’ and the calls for increased intervention as a means of coping with international terrorism. It starts by highlighting the inordinate attention initially granted to the threat posed by ‘rogue states’ to the neglect of ‘failed states’. Generally, it is argued that the prevalence of such notions has to be related to a persistence of Cold War discourse on st…
A critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change
Situated within a historical materialist problematic of social transformation that deploys many of the insights of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break emerged, in the 1980s, in the work of Robert Cox from mainstream International Relations (IR) approaches to hegemony. This article provides a comprehensive 'state-of-the-discipline' overview of this critical theory route to hegemony, world order and historical change. It does so by…
A Double Reading of Gramsci
In criticising the Italian idealist philosopher Benedetto Croce – described by Eric Hobsbawm as the first ‘post‐Marxist’ – Antonio Gramsci elaborated a distinct theory of history. For Gramsci, philosophers such as Croce developed a subjective account of history based on the progression of philosophical thought rather than problems posed by historical development. This essay develops a ‘double reading’ of Gramsci. First, it presents an overview of…
Introduction
Change within continuity
On 5 September 2001 President Vicente Fox Quesada of Mexico received the Annual Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) at a Capitol Hill ceremony in Washington DC. The awar
The ‘failed state’ of international relations
On 4 May 1898 Lord Salisbury delivered one of his most notable and controversial speeches as British Prime Minister to an audience at the Albert Hall in London. The ‘dying nations’ speech, as it be
The Age of Absolutism
Understanding the origins of capitalism in terms of feudal crisis, agrarian class structures and economic development in Europe has been an enduring concern of a growing body of scholarship focusing on changes in social property relations. This work has been distinctive in highlighting long-term patterns of social property relations central to shaping late medieval and early modern Europe, variegated patterns of serfdom within feudalism, class co…
A Critical Theory Route to Hegemony, World Order and Historical Change
Situated within a historical materialist problematic of social transformation and deploying many insights from the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, a crucial break with mainstream International Relations (IR) approaches emerged by the 1980s in the work of Robert Cox. In contrast to mainstream routes to hegemony in IR, which develop a static theory of politics, an abstract ahistorical conception of the state and an appeal to universal validity (e.…
Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour
This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes glo
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