David J Bailey
Biographic Data
| ID | 208257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David J Bailey |
| GIVEN NAMES | David J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailey |
| SIGNATURE | BAILEY D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5132-2606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Environmental protest outcomes in austerity-era neoliberalism: Perseverance and Politics
This paper explores environmental protest outcomes during the decade of the 2010s in the UK. In doing so, it presents the results of a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of all 54 major environmental protest campaigns during the period. The study explores alternative causal conditions relating to a number of strategic and tactical options that environmental movements typically face. It finds that two alternative routes were sufficient for env…
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success
The decline of the power of organised labour, which is a central feature of neoliberalism, was compounded during the 'age of austerity'. Yet, the potentially disruptive agency of workers remains. This article presents a qualitative process-tracing exercise for over 150 prominent episodes of worker-led dissent in the period 2010-2019 in the UK, the results of which are also made available in a website accompanying the article: ' Contesting the UK'…
Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia
The ‘polycrisis’ of global capitalism has regional and national particularities that are worthy of exploration. In the case of East Asia, we see rising military, political and economic tensions which mirror global trends, but take a specific concrete regional form. We offer an explanation for these tensions in East Asia that highlight their roots in developments within the national models of capitalism that make up the region, in this case from t…
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement
Demands of system change are common in the climate movement but there is little agreement on what this entails or how it might be achieved. This has contributed to discord and division between seemingly allied positions, each seeking to address the climate crisis through alternative strategies for change. We argue that these strategic differences also reflect, and for that reason can be better understood in terms of, alternative stances towards c…
Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique
The present article examines the material and cultural foundations of art made with recycled materials in Mozambique, assessing the continuities (and discontinuities) it exhibits with urban art elsewhere. It connects the longstanding practice of recycling street waste into artwork to economic hardship, colonial history, the environmental crisis, and the increasing influence of hip hop and global urban cultural trends. While the scholarly discours…
Contesting neoliberalism: Mapping the terrain of social conflict
This article explores the terrain of social conflict as it developed across advanced capitalist democracies throughout the 'age of austerity' that followed the global economic crisis. It shows how a (broadly defined) working class mobilised in different ways in different capitalist contexts, contesting the institutional forms (and the crises that emerged from them) which constitute each particular model of capitalism. Considered this way, we are …
Mestres na periferia do realismo: Eça, Machado, e o diálogo transatlântico sobre a amizade masculina
Despite their renown for different aesthetic styles, this article argues that Machado de Assis and Eça de Queirós explored similar, classical representations of male friendship to problematize dominant understandings of relationships in patriarchal-capitalist society, and that such representations underpin their mutual development of confused and dubious male narrators in their later novels. In addition, it argues that the intertwined degradation…
Forum introduction: Decolonising green Marxism: Capitalism, decolonialism and radical environmental politics
Much of this debate is reflected in the disagreement between John Bellamy Foster and Jason Moore, over the way and the extent to which we can conceptualise capitalism as a process that systematically produces ecological destruction (see especially [9];[13]) A key aspect in the debate between Foster and Moore is over the question of how to conceptualise the effect of capitalism upon, or in, nature For Foster, to reject a dialectical approach towar…
Anti-austerity between militant materialism and real democracy: Exploring pragmatic prefigurativism
The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be underst…
Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis: Perspectives and positions outside of capitalism
This article introduces the current special issue, Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis. Those seeking alternatives to capitalism, and egalitarian social change more generally, face a chronic undecidability. In this context, the special issue considers episodes of what we term, extra-capitalism. By this, we mean those instances, examples, strategies, tactics, experiments, programmes, moments, ruptures and revolutions that have sou…
Austerity and Anti-Austerity: The Political Economy of Refusal in ‘Low-Resistance’ Models of Capitalism
In contrast to much of the political economy literature, this article explores acts of refusal that obstruct attempts to impose austerity measures on advanced industrial democracies. It thereby complements a literature that has thus far focused far more upon the (apparently unobstructed) imposition of austerity. In doing so, it uses two typically ‘low-resistance’ countries – Japan and the UK –as least-likely cases and finds that austerity is rare…
Hard times for traditional parties
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe
Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s political economy, there are also important developments, trends and processes which have acted to obstruct, hinder and present alternatives to this per…
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting Neoliberal Europe
Beyond left melancholy
As traições de Adolfo Caminha: "Bom Crioulo" e a 'crioulização' do naturalismo
Adolfo Caminha's 1895 novel Bom Crioulo, about a sexual relationship between a freed black slave and a white, teenage sailor, has been described by critics as anything from a case study of degeneration theory to a foundational work of Brazilian gay literature. This article attempts to read the novel as a creole of European cultural borrowings, which are subverted and adapted to represent the Brazilian social context and create a "naturalised" ver…
Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis
Disrupting the European Crisis: A Critical Political Economy of Contestation, Subversion and Escape
Central to much of the critical political economy (CPE) literature is a declared focus on emancipation. Yet, rather than highlight sources and instances of activity that might result in emancipatory outcomes, much of the CPE literature focuses on relations of domination and the way in which these are sustained and (re)produced. In contrast, and drawing on autonomist Marxism, we argue that an emancipation-oriented approach needs to focus upon the …
Resistance is futile? The impact of disruptive protest in the 'silver age of permanent austerity
This article contributes to the debate within the comparative political economy literature regarding the viability of market-correcting policy preferences under global socio-economic constraints. The existing literature has thus far focused predominantly on moderate, institutional, elite-oriented forms of contention over welfare policy reform. The article presents evidence that disruptive, innovative or elite-challenging forms of contention play …
Palliating terminal social democratic decline at the EU level?
Economic integration across the territory of the European Union (EU) precludes the adoption of national-level redistributive measures. This chapter works with a conceptualisation of 'social democracy' as a political ideal and assumes that we are therefore able to evaluate the degree to which a particular political programme is social democratic or otherwise. EU social policy developments during the Great Recession fall into three key areas: labou…
European social democracy during the global economic crisis: Renovation or Resignation?
Varieties of contestation: The comparative and critical political economy of 'excessive' demand
This paper agrees with much of the current criticism, especially from Marxist perspectives, which argues that the varieties of capitalism (VoC) approach over-emphasises the degree of harmony and mutual benefit, as well as the absence of class tension and exploitation, within contemporary capitalist relations. It also, however, criticises many of these Marxist critiques on the grounds that they too willingly accept that relations of domination and…
The European rescue, recommodification, and/or reterritorialisation of the (becoming-capitalist) state? Marx, Deleuze, Guattari, and the European Union
Efficient Plutocracy versus Ineffective Democracy? (De)Limiting Alternatives in European Governance
The Political Economy of European Social Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’ direction of much of EU policy-output. A critical realist method is adopted, informed by both Marxist and anarchist critiques of social democratic partie…
Disrupting the European Crisis: A Critical Political Economy of Contestation, Subversion and Escape
Central to much of the critical political economy (CPE) literature is a declared focus on emancipation. Yet, rather than highlight sources and instances of activity that might result in emancipatory outcomes, much of the CPE literature focuses on relations of domination and the way in which these are sustained and (re)produced. In contrast, and drawing on autonomist Marxism, we argue that an emancipation-oriented approach needs to focus upon the …
Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis
Governance or the crisis of governmentality? applying critical state theory at the European level
This article argues that accounts of EU-level decision-making drawing upon national-level comparisons have predominantly derived their analyses from liberal democratic and social democratic accounts of the nation state. This has had a detrimental effect on the development of a more critical account of EU decision-making. Following insights made by critical state theorists at the national level, we can view developments in EU-level politics as the…
Explaining the underdevelopment of `Social Europe: A critical realization
This article argues that existing accounts of the underdevelopment of `Social Europe' have failed to adequately integrate the contending obstacles that explain the absence they rightly identify. It argues that by employing a critical realist methodology, including the concepts of generation, emergence, and stratification, it is possible to more adequately integrate knowledge of the obstacles to `Social Europe'. Concretely, the article argues that…
Austerity and Anti-Austerity: The Political Economy of Refusal in ‘Low-Resistance’ Models of Capitalism
In contrast to much of the political economy literature, this article explores acts of refusal that obstruct attempts to impose austerity measures on advanced industrial democracies. It thereby complements a literature that has thus far focused far more upon the (apparently unobstructed) imposition of austerity. In doing so, it uses two typically ‘low-resistance’ countries – Japan and the UK –as least-likely cases and finds that austerity is rare…
Whose system, what change? A critical political economy approach to the UK climate movement
Demands of system change are common in the climate movement but there is little agreement on what this entails or how it might be achieved. This has contributed to discord and division between seemingly allied positions, each seeking to address the climate crisis through alternative strategies for change. We argue that these strategic differences also reflect, and for that reason can be better understood in terms of, alternative stances towards c…
Resistance is futile? The impact of disruptive protest in the 'silver age of permanent austerity
This article contributes to the debate within the comparative political economy literature regarding the viability of market-correcting policy preferences under global socio-economic constraints. The existing literature has thus far focused predominantly on moderate, institutional, elite-oriented forms of contention over welfare policy reform. The article presents evidence that disruptive, innovative or elite-challenging forms of contention play …
The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation
This article argues that existing accounts of the transformation from ‘traditional’ to ‘new’ social democracy has thus far only identified the contextual changes that have prompted this move. In doing so, they have failed to account for the motives of social democratic party actors in undertaking the transition to ‘new’ social democracy in response to those changes. The article draws upon a critical realist method, and Marxist and anti-representa…
Contesting neoliberalism: Mapping the terrain of social conflict
This article explores the terrain of social conflict as it developed across advanced capitalist democracies throughout the 'age of austerity' that followed the global economic crisis. It shows how a (broadly defined) working class mobilised in different ways in different capitalist contexts, contesting the institutional forms (and the crises that emerged from them) which constitute each particular model of capitalism. Considered this way, we are …
Anti-austerity between militant materialism and real democracy: Exploring pragmatic prefigurativism
The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be underst…
Misperceiving Matters: Elite Ideas and the Failure of the European Constitution
Neither pragmatic adaptation nor misguided accommodation: Modernisation as domination in the Chilean and British Left
This article contests prevailing academic conceptions of the modernisation of parliamentary Left parties. According to these accounts, 'modernisation' is viewed either as a pragmatic adaptation to international socioeconomic change, or as a misguided accommodation of ascendant neoliberal values, norms and practices. In both of these accounts, Left parties are perceived as passively reacting to the structures that contextualise their actions. Deve…
Obfuscation through Integration: Legitimating 'New' Social Democracy in the European Union
Social democratic parties are increasingly supportive of European integration. Existing explanations view this as either a reassertion of social democracy at the supranational level, an adaptation to contemporary political institutions, or part of a general ideological moderation. This article argues that support for the EU enables social democratic parties to proclaim the possibility of social democracy at the supranational level, despite the ab…
Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis: Perspectives and positions outside of capitalism
This article introduces the current special issue, Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis. Those seeking alternatives to capitalism, and egalitarian social change more generally, face a chronic undecidability. In this context, the special issue considers episodes of what we term, extra-capitalism. By this, we mean those instances, examples, strategies, tactics, experiments, programmes, moments, ruptures and revolutions that have sou…
Worker-Led Dissent in the Age of Austerity: Comparing the Conditions of Success
The decline of the power of organised labour, which is a central feature of neoliberalism, was compounded during the 'age of austerity'. Yet, the potentially disruptive agency of workers remains. This article presents a qualitative process-tracing exercise for over 150 prominent episodes of worker-led dissent in the period 2010-2019 in the UK, the results of which are also made available in a website accompanying the article: ' Contesting the UK'…
The European rescue, recommodification, and/or reterritorialisation of the (becoming-capitalist) state? Marx, Deleuze, Guattari, and the European Union
Environmental protest outcomes in austerity-era neoliberalism: Perseverance and Politics
This paper explores environmental protest outcomes during the decade of the 2010s in the UK. In doing so, it presents the results of a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of all 54 major environmental protest campaigns during the period. The study explores alternative causal conditions relating to a number of strategic and tactical options that environmental movements typically face. It finds that two alternative routes were sufficient for env…
Laying Waste to History: Recyclia and Urban Art Traditions in Mozambique
The present article examines the material and cultural foundations of art made with recycled materials in Mozambique, assessing the continuities (and discontinuities) it exhibits with urban art elsewhere. It connects the longstanding practice of recycling street waste into artwork to economic hardship, colonial history, the environmental crisis, and the increasing influence of hip hop and global urban cultural trends. While the scholarly discours…
Obfuscation through Integration: Legitimating 'New' Social Democracy in the European Union
Social democratic parties are increasingly supportive of European integration. Existing explanations view this as either a reassertion of social democracy at the supranational level, an adaptation to contemporary political institutions, or part of a general ideological moderation. This article argues that support for the EU enables social democratic parties to proclaim the possibility of social democracy at the supranational level, despite the ab…
Governance or the crisis of governmentality? applying critical state theory at the European level
This article argues that accounts of EU-level decision-making drawing upon national-level comparisons have predominantly derived their analyses from liberal democratic and social democratic accounts of the nation state. This has had a detrimental effect on the development of a more critical account of EU decision-making. Following insights made by critical state theorists at the national level, we can view developments in EU-level politics as the…
Neither pragmatic adaptation nor misguided accommodation: Modernisation as domination in the Chilean and British Left
This article contests prevailing academic conceptions of the modernisation of parliamentary Left parties. According to these accounts, 'modernisation' is viewed either as a pragmatic adaptation to international socioeconomic change, or as a misguided accommodation of ascendant neoliberal values, norms and practices. In both of these accounts, Left parties are perceived as passively reacting to the structures that contextualise their actions. Deve…
Misperceiving Matters: Elite Ideas and the Failure of the European Constitution
Explaining the underdevelopment of `Social Europe: A critical realization
This article argues that existing accounts of the underdevelopment of `Social Europe' have failed to adequately integrate the contending obstacles that explain the absence they rightly identify. It argues that by employing a critical realist methodology, including the concepts of generation, emergence, and stratification, it is possible to more adequately integrate knowledge of the obstacles to `Social Europe'. Concretely, the article argues that…
The Political Economy of European Social Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach
This book takes an in-depth look into recent developments in European social democracy. It begins by highlighting the somewhat paradoxical turn by a number of social democratic parties towards enhanced support for European integration, a move that has occurred despite the apparently ‘neoliberal’ direction of much of EU policy-output. A critical realist method is adopted, informed by both Marxist and anarchist critiques of social democratic partie…
The Transition to ‘New’ Social Democracy: The Role of Capitalism, Representation and (Hampered) Contestation
This article argues that existing accounts of the transformation from ‘traditional’ to ‘new’ social democracy has thus far only identified the contextual changes that have prompted this move. In doing so, they have failed to account for the motives of social democratic party actors in undertaking the transition to ‘new’ social democracy in response to those changes. The article draws upon a critical realist method, and Marxist and anti-representa…
The European rescue, recommodification, and/or reterritorialisation of the (becoming-capitalist) state? Marx, Deleuze, Guattari, and the European Union
Efficient Plutocracy versus Ineffective Democracy? (De)Limiting Alternatives in European Governance
Palliating terminal social democratic decline at the EU level?
Economic integration across the territory of the European Union (EU) precludes the adoption of national-level redistributive measures. This chapter works with a conceptualisation of 'social democracy' as a political ideal and assumes that we are therefore able to evaluate the degree to which a particular political programme is social democratic or otherwise. EU social policy developments during the Great Recession fall into three key areas: labou…
European social democracy during the global economic crisis: Renovation or Resignation?
Varieties of contestation: The comparative and critical political economy of 'excessive' demand
This paper agrees with much of the current criticism, especially from Marxist perspectives, which argues that the varieties of capitalism (VoC) approach over-emphasises the degree of harmony and mutual benefit, as well as the absence of class tension and exploitation, within contemporary capitalist relations. It also, however, criticises many of these Marxist critiques on the grounds that they too willingly accept that relations of domination and…
Disrupting the European Crisis: A Critical Political Economy of Contestation, Subversion and Escape
Central to much of the critical political economy (CPE) literature is a declared focus on emancipation. Yet, rather than highlight sources and instances of activity that might result in emancipatory outcomes, much of the CPE literature focuses on relations of domination and the way in which these are sustained and (re)produced. In contrast, and drawing on autonomist Marxism, we argue that an emancipation-oriented approach needs to focus upon the …
Resistance is futile? The impact of disruptive protest in the 'silver age of permanent austerity
This article contributes to the debate within the comparative political economy literature regarding the viability of market-correcting policy preferences under global socio-economic constraints. The existing literature has thus far focused predominantly on moderate, institutional, elite-oriented forms of contention over welfare policy reform. The article presents evidence that disruptive, innovative or elite-challenging forms of contention play …
Challenging the age of austerity: Disruptive agency after the global economic crisis
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe
Much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon a sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the post-war period are being continuously unravelled. Whilst there are many reasons to lament the trajectory of change within Europe’s political economy, there are also important developments, trends and processes which have acted to obstruct, hinder and present alternatives to this per…
Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting Neoliberal Europe
Beyond left melancholy
As traições de Adolfo Caminha: "Bom Crioulo" e a 'crioulização' do naturalismo
Adolfo Caminha's 1895 novel Bom Crioulo, about a sexual relationship between a freed black slave and a white, teenage sailor, has been described by critics as anything from a case study of degeneration theory to a foundational work of Brazilian gay literature. This article attempts to read the novel as a creole of European cultural borrowings, which are subverted and adapted to represent the Brazilian social context and create a "naturalised" ver…
Hard times for traditional parties
Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis: Perspectives and positions outside of capitalism
This article introduces the current special issue, Extra-capitalist impulses in the midst of the crisis. Those seeking alternatives to capitalism, and egalitarian social change more generally, face a chronic undecidability. In this context, the special issue considers episodes of what we term, extra-capitalism. By this, we mean those instances, examples, strategies, tactics, experiments, programmes, moments, ruptures and revolutions that have sou…
Austerity and Anti-Austerity: The Political Economy of Refusal in ‘Low-Resistance’ Models of Capitalism
In contrast to much of the political economy literature, this article explores acts of refusal that obstruct attempts to impose austerity measures on advanced industrial democracies. It thereby complements a literature that has thus far focused far more upon the (apparently unobstructed) imposition of austerity. In doing so, it uses two typically ‘low-resistance’ countries – Japan and the UK –as least-likely cases and finds that austerity is rare…
Anti-austerity between militant materialism and real democracy: Exploring pragmatic prefigurativism
The anti-austerity movement that emerged in the wake of the 2008 global economic crisis and 2010 Eurozone crisis, and which forms part of the ‘age of austerity’ that came after those crises, was underpinned by a set of ideas and practices that we refer to here as ‘pragmatic prefigurativism’. Whilst the anti-austerity movements typically rejected formal ideologies such as Marxism and anarchism, nevertheless pragmatic prefigurativism can be underst…
Mestres na periferia do realismo: Eça, Machado, e o diálogo transatlântico sobre a amizade masculina
Despite their renown for different aesthetic styles, this article argues that Machado de Assis and Eça de Queirós explored similar, classical representations of male friendship to problematize dominant understandings of relationships in patriarchal-capitalist society, and that such representations underpin their mutual development of confused and dubious male narrators in their later novels. In addition, it argues that the intertwined degradation…
Forum introduction: Decolonising green Marxism: Capitalism, decolonialism and radical environmental politics
Much of this debate is reflected in the disagreement between John Bellamy Foster and Jason Moore, over the way and the extent to which we can conceptualise capitalism as a process that systematically produces ecological destruction (see especially [9];[13]) A key aspect in the debate between Foster and Moore is over the question of how to conceptualise the effect of capitalism upon, or in, nature For Foster, to reject a dialectical approach towar…
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