Timothy Kerswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 2110693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Kerswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerswell |
| SIGNATURE | KERSWELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7763-4234 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Breaking the Chain
Beyond safe spaces
The liberal-democratic death drive
This article provides a psychoanalytic–materialist critique of liberal democracy. It argues that the failures of liberalism are structurally necessary, founded in property, ideology and affect. Liberalism survives through the ritualisation of deferral, where disappointment generates loyalty as dissatisfaction is domesticated through civic repetition. Deploying Freud's death drive, psychoanalysis is presented as a diagnostic tool for tracing how i…
Macao’s Split Labour Market
Edna Bonacich’s split labour market states that socio-political factors generate differential outcomes for workers in a region, generally as the result of ethnic antagonism. This ethnic antagonism, Bonacich argues, does not require open violence or even verbal confrontation but can operate through exclusion movements and “caste” systems. In this paper, we use Bonacich’s framework to analyse the production of a split labour market in the Macao, Sp…
A Conceptual History of the Labour Aristocracy
The concept of the labour aristocracy is one of the most hotly debated in Marxism. This article explores the history of the idea. The labour aristocracy, in general, refers to a privileged group of
Liberalisation in India
This article discusses whether liberalisation has moderated or aggravated India’s employment problems. Since the Modi government’s election in 2014 and the introduction of the flagship “Make in India” policy, various government officials and academics have argued that India’s employment situation has improved and is showing promising signs of growth and development. However, in this article, it is argued that India’s liberalisation policies have …
Studies of the Indian communist movement
The fall of the Left Front government in the Indian state of West Bengal after more than 30 years was a landmark historical event in Indian politics. For India's Marxist movement, the event provides an opportunity to assess the achievements and mistakes of a period of political history. More broadly, it offers the opportunity to question the overall political strategy of the Left Front and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In a similar vein…
Capitalism Denied with Chinese Characteristics
Is China capitalist or socialist? The debate never ceases to cause controversy. The Communist Party of China (CPC), especially, completely denies that China has anything at all to do with capitalis
Labour imperialism in India
Development and Dispossession
Productivity and Wages
The neoclassical model of wages suggests that wages are set according to the marginal productivity of workers. The article consists of international comparisons and analysis of the Indian labour market based on a set of structural and political variables. In questioning the validity of the neoclassical model, it is argued that variables such as the strength of trade unions, the size of the informal sector and national rates of poverty are better …
Labor Divided
Zak Cope, Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2012), 387 pages, $20.00, paperback.[Zak] Cope argues that the seemingly pervasive racism and cultural chauvinism in the global North is not the result of false consciousness, misinformation, indoctrination, or ignorance (at least to the extent that much of the political left assumes). Rather, racism and cultu…
Liberalisation in India
This article discusses whether liberalisation has moderated or aggravated India’s employment problems. Since the Modi government’s election in 2014 and the introduction of the flagship “Make in India” policy, various government officials and academics have argued that India’s employment situation has improved and is showing promising signs of growth and development. However, in this article, it is argued that India’s liberalisation policies have …
Capitalism Denied with Chinese Characteristics
Is China capitalist or socialist? The debate never ceases to cause controversy. The Communist Party of China (CPC), especially, completely denies that China has anything at all to do with capitalis
Development and Dispossession
Productivity and Wages
The neoclassical model of wages suggests that wages are set according to the marginal productivity of workers. The article consists of international comparisons and analysis of the Indian labour market based on a set of structural and political variables. In questioning the validity of the neoclassical model, it is argued that variables such as the strength of trade unions, the size of the informal sector and national rates of poverty are better …
Labor Divided
Zak Cope, Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2012), 387 pages, $20.00, paperback.[Zak] Cope argues that the seemingly pervasive racism and cultural chauvinism in the global North is not the result of false consciousness, misinformation, indoctrination, or ignorance (at least to the extent that much of the political left assumes). Rather, racism and cultu…
Development and Dispossession
Capitalism Denied with Chinese Characteristics
Is China capitalist or socialist? The debate never ceases to cause controversy. The Communist Party of China (CPC), especially, completely denies that China has anything at all to do with capitalis
Labour imperialism in India
Studies of the Indian communist movement
The fall of the Left Front government in the Indian state of West Bengal after more than 30 years was a landmark historical event in Indian politics. For India's Marxist movement, the event provides an opportunity to assess the achievements and mistakes of a period of political history. More broadly, it offers the opportunity to question the overall political strategy of the Left Front and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). In a similar vein…
A Conceptual History of the Labour Aristocracy
The concept of the labour aristocracy is one of the most hotly debated in Marxism. This article explores the history of the idea. The labour aristocracy, in general, refers to a privileged group of
Liberalisation in India
This article discusses whether liberalisation has moderated or aggravated India’s employment problems. Since the Modi government’s election in 2014 and the introduction of the flagship “Make in India” policy, various government officials and academics have argued that India’s employment situation has improved and is showing promising signs of growth and development. However, in this article, it is argued that India’s liberalisation policies have …
Macao’s Split Labour Market
Edna Bonacich’s split labour market states that socio-political factors generate differential outcomes for workers in a region, generally as the result of ethnic antagonism. This ethnic antagonism, Bonacich argues, does not require open violence or even verbal confrontation but can operate through exclusion movements and “caste” systems. In this paper, we use Bonacich’s framework to analyse the production of a split labour market in the Macao, Sp…
Breaking the Chain
Beyond safe spaces
The liberal-democratic death drive
This article provides a psychoanalytic–materialist critique of liberal democracy. It argues that the failures of liberalism are structurally necessary, founded in property, ideology and affect. Liberalism survives through the ritualisation of deferral, where disappointment generates loyalty as dissatisfaction is domesticated through civic repetition. Deploying Freud's death drive, psychoanalysis is presented as a diagnostic tool for tracing how i…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Ideology (3 works)