William Conroy
Biographic Data
| ID | 359295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Conroy |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Conroy |
| SIGNATURE | CONROY W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4398-8405 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Revisiting the “Articulation” of Capital and Difference: Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall, and the Built Environment
In the context of ongoing debates in the social sciences on the relationship between race, gender, and the reproduction of capitalist society, many scholars have turned to the concept of “articulation.” However, it remains unclear how, exactly, capital and ascriptive difference are articulated and why particular articulations of race, gender, and capital remain so enduring. This article undertakes a critical reading of Stuart Hall’s landmark writ…
The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment
This article develops a new theory of the relationship between the built environment and the reproduction of capitalism. To do so, it pursues a critical engagement with David Harvey's landmark texts on that theme, which provide a comprehensive account of that relationship and which continue to hold considerable sway within urban studies. It begins by situating Harvey in a long history of efforts to spatialize crisis theory. Tracing his relation t…
Constitutive outsides or hidden abodes? Totality and ideology in critical urban theory
In the context of hotly contested debates within critical urban theory, many scholars have recently attempted (both implicitly and explicitly) to move beyond the relational-dialectical concept of ‘totality’, taking up the notion of ‘the constitutive outside’ in its place. With this in view, this article seeks to (1) develop a critique of the ways in which the concept of the constitutive outside is deployed in these debates; and (2) to sketch anot…
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate
Interest in the relationship between race and the expanded reproduction of capitalism has exploded across the social sciences and humanities over the past several years. Despite this widespread appreciation and interest, profound disagreement, debate, and analytical impression persists, not least regarding the relationship between race and the necessary 'laws of motion' of capitalist society. This article begins by tracing the core approaches to …
Spatializing social reproduction theory: Integrating state space and the urban fabric
This article sets out to extend the core ideas of social reproduction theory (SRT), an increasingly influential strand of scholarship within and beyond critical geopolitical economy. It suggests that while SRT productively addresses longstanding debates within Marxist feminism, it has yet to adequately theorize the shifting spatialities of reproductive work and the relationship between social reproduction and the state. To address this relative w…
Fanon's Mobilities: Race, Space, Recognition
This article engages with Frantz Fanon's writing on both geographical and dialectical movement. It suggests that in particular historical‐geographical contexts—such as those described by Fanon himself—geographical patterns of mobility and confinement operate as the presupposition and result of “race”; while also functionally enabling capitalism's necessary and enduring dialectic of appropriation and capitalisation, and reproducing the Fanonian “z…
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism
Nancy Fraser's recent work on the hidden abodes of capitalism has quickly become a critical point of reference for those concerned with the racialized, gendered, and ecological conditions of capitalist reproduction. With that in view, this article seeks to extend Fraser's conceptualization through a sympathetic critique of her approach to capitalism's foreground/background nexus. After situating Fraser's project in relation to Marx (and his own e…
Everything Belongs to Everyone: Eviction, Risk, and Anticipatory Geography in Chicago
This paper sets out to complicate the principle claims of the environmental risk and “anticipatory geography” literature. Typically, this literature employs a Foucauldian and non-representational arsenal in order to illustrate the ways in which the specter of future risk is folded into the present and mobilized by those in power to justify regressive politics. In contrast, a profile on the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign (CAEC) and its strategies …
The biopolitical commons: A revised theory of urban land in the age of biopolitical production
The literature on biopolitical production largely presumes that contemporary capital is parasitic, enclosing and capturing value that is autonomously and collectively produced across the urban landscape. In contrast, this article suggests that in particular contexts, planners—acting largely as surrogates for urban real estate capital—play an active role in the production of the urban commons for the sake of future enclosure. Using contemporary Ch…
Challenging the Boundaries of Reform: Socialism in Burlington
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate
Interest in the relationship between race and the expanded reproduction of capitalism has exploded across the social sciences and humanities over the past several years. Despite this widespread appreciation and interest, profound disagreement, debate, and analytical impression persists, not least regarding the relationship between race and the necessary 'laws of motion' of capitalist society. This article begins by tracing the core approaches to …
Fanon's Mobilities: Race, Space, Recognition
This article engages with Frantz Fanon's writing on both geographical and dialectical movement. It suggests that in particular historical‐geographical contexts—such as those described by Fanon himself—geographical patterns of mobility and confinement operate as the presupposition and result of “race”; while also functionally enabling capitalism's necessary and enduring dialectic of appropriation and capitalisation, and reproducing the Fanonian “z…
Constitutive outsides or hidden abodes? Totality and ideology in critical urban theory
In the context of hotly contested debates within critical urban theory, many scholars have recently attempted (both implicitly and explicitly) to move beyond the relational-dialectical concept of ‘totality’, taking up the notion of ‘the constitutive outside’ in its place. With this in view, this article seeks to (1) develop a critique of the ways in which the concept of the constitutive outside is deployed in these debates; and (2) to sketch anot…
Spatializing social reproduction theory: Integrating state space and the urban fabric
This article sets out to extend the core ideas of social reproduction theory (SRT), an increasingly influential strand of scholarship within and beyond critical geopolitical economy. It suggests that while SRT productively addresses longstanding debates within Marxist feminism, it has yet to adequately theorize the shifting spatialities of reproductive work and the relationship between social reproduction and the state. To address this relative w…
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism
Nancy Fraser's recent work on the hidden abodes of capitalism has quickly become a critical point of reference for those concerned with the racialized, gendered, and ecological conditions of capitalist reproduction. With that in view, this article seeks to extend Fraser's conceptualization through a sympathetic critique of her approach to capitalism's foreground/background nexus. After situating Fraser's project in relation to Marx (and his own e…
The biopolitical commons: A revised theory of urban land in the age of biopolitical production
The literature on biopolitical production largely presumes that contemporary capital is parasitic, enclosing and capturing value that is autonomously and collectively produced across the urban landscape. In contrast, this article suggests that in particular contexts, planners—acting largely as surrogates for urban real estate capital—play an active role in the production of the urban commons for the sake of future enclosure. Using contemporary Ch…
Everything Belongs to Everyone: Eviction, Risk, and Anticipatory Geography in Chicago
This paper sets out to complicate the principle claims of the environmental risk and “anticipatory geography” literature. Typically, this literature employs a Foucauldian and non-representational arsenal in order to illustrate the ways in which the specter of future risk is folded into the present and mobilized by those in power to justify regressive politics. In contrast, a profile on the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign (CAEC) and its strategies …
Challenging the Boundaries of Reform: Socialism in Burlington
The biopolitical commons: A revised theory of urban land in the age of biopolitical production
The literature on biopolitical production largely presumes that contemporary capital is parasitic, enclosing and capturing value that is autonomously and collectively produced across the urban landscape. In contrast, this article suggests that in particular contexts, planners—acting largely as surrogates for urban real estate capital—play an active role in the production of the urban commons for the sake of future enclosure. Using contemporary Ch…
Everything Belongs to Everyone: Eviction, Risk, and Anticipatory Geography in Chicago
This paper sets out to complicate the principle claims of the environmental risk and “anticipatory geography” literature. Typically, this literature employs a Foucauldian and non-representational arsenal in order to illustrate the ways in which the specter of future risk is folded into the present and mobilized by those in power to justify regressive politics. In contrast, a profile on the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign (CAEC) and its strategies …
Spatializing social reproduction theory: Integrating state space and the urban fabric
This article sets out to extend the core ideas of social reproduction theory (SRT), an increasingly influential strand of scholarship within and beyond critical geopolitical economy. It suggests that while SRT productively addresses longstanding debates within Marxist feminism, it has yet to adequately theorize the shifting spatialities of reproductive work and the relationship between social reproduction and the state. To address this relative w…
Fanon's Mobilities: Race, Space, Recognition
This article engages with Frantz Fanon's writing on both geographical and dialectical movement. It suggests that in particular historical‐geographical contexts—such as those described by Fanon himself—geographical patterns of mobility and confinement operate as the presupposition and result of “race”; while also functionally enabling capitalism's necessary and enduring dialectic of appropriation and capitalisation, and reproducing the Fanonian “z…
Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism
Nancy Fraser's recent work on the hidden abodes of capitalism has quickly become a critical point of reference for those concerned with the racialized, gendered, and ecological conditions of capitalist reproduction. With that in view, this article seeks to extend Fraser's conceptualization through a sympathetic critique of her approach to capitalism's foreground/background nexus. After situating Fraser's project in relation to Marx (and his own e…
Constitutive outsides or hidden abodes? Totality and ideology in critical urban theory
In the context of hotly contested debates within critical urban theory, many scholars have recently attempted (both implicitly and explicitly) to move beyond the relational-dialectical concept of ‘totality’, taking up the notion of ‘the constitutive outside’ in its place. With this in view, this article seeks to (1) develop a critique of the ways in which the concept of the constitutive outside is deployed in these debates; and (2) to sketch anot…
Race, Capitalism, and the Necessity/Contingency Debate
Interest in the relationship between race and the expanded reproduction of capitalism has exploded across the social sciences and humanities over the past several years. Despite this widespread appreciation and interest, profound disagreement, debate, and analytical impression persists, not least regarding the relationship between race and the necessary 'laws of motion' of capitalist society. This article begins by tracing the core approaches to …
Revisiting the “Articulation” of Capital and Difference: Louis Althusser, Stuart Hall, and the Built Environment
In the context of ongoing debates in the social sciences on the relationship between race, gender, and the reproduction of capitalist society, many scholars have turned to the concept of “articulation.” However, it remains unclear how, exactly, capital and ascriptive difference are articulated and why particular articulations of race, gender, and capital remain so enduring. This article undertakes a critical reading of Stuart Hall’s landmark writ…
The Hidden Abodes of Capitalist Space: Rethinking Crisis and the Built Environment
This article develops a new theory of the relationship between the built environment and the reproduction of capitalism. To do so, it pursues a critical engagement with David Harvey's landmark texts on that theme, which provide a comprehensive account of that relationship and which continue to hold considerable sway within urban studies. It begins by situating Harvey in a long history of efforts to spatialize crisis theory. Tracing his relation t…
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