Jason C Mueller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason C Mueller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason C |
| FAMILY NAME | Mueller |
| SIGNATURE | MUELLER J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0833-5537 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Medelacide: The intentional and systematic destruction of healthcare infrastructure
When analysing recurrent global social problems, new theories and concepts often emerge. This is the outcome of not only needing a vocabulary to identify and document problems as they unfold, but to label the specific problem as one in need of solving. Once a term is developed and popularised it allows scholars, lawyers and human rights advocates to demand answers or redress from those responsible for generating such societal ills. Examples of th…
Youth Politics and Cognitive Mapping in the United States: From #OKBoomer to #BlackLivesMatter and #CeasefireNow
A new political diagonal: How students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine
State Strategy, Diamond Mining, and Indigenous Dispossession in Botswana
In a world-system built through dispossession and exploitation of African and Indigenous peoples, the case of the San in Botswana is significant. The government of Botswana recently led a protracted campaign of dispossession of the Indigenous San, likely due to there being diamond reserves near and within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. This article argues that synthesizing critical theories of accumulation, dispossession, and State strategy c…
Theorising universality in the modern world-system: The abstract, the concrete, and the case of Botswana
There are long-standing disagreements across the humanities and social sciences regarding the relevance and necessity of using the concept of ‘universality’. The debate is often framed as a competition between acknowledging particularities of social struggles and identities, against universalising tendencies or interests across the world-system. Within these debates, universality may be conceptualised as an abstract totality that fails to apply u…
Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia
For over twenty years the United States government has engaged in what it calls a global ‘war on terror’ (GWOT). This war spans continents and while US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq receive modest attention, the secretive US war in Somalia remains under-discussed. This article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of what the US has done in Somalia since 2001, considering the political, economic and ideological elements of these…
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull
Dystopian visions of global pandemics, political crises, and human suffering abound, from fictitious television shows to the ongoing ravages of COVID-19. When we witness isolated instances of suffering and collective struggle, and identify their relationship to large-scale social crises, we are unveiling pieces of the totality. Things which might otherwise be portrayed as a local problem are instead viewed as a part of a larger social system. The…
Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia
Somalia is often referred to as a ‘failed state’. In addition to ineffective governance, feeble economic development, and a large anti-government insurgency, it faces increasingly severe climate change-induced devastation. This article offers a critical discussion of the role of capitalist interests and ideology as a factor in the climate crisis. It explores interlocking issues of (1) the relationship between the ruling political class of Somalia…
Universality, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Uprising
This article offers a theoretically informed case study of the George Floyd Uprising that emerged in May 2020. In addition to analyzing details of the uprising, it illustrates the ways in which particular uprisings can register at the level of the universal. I make this point through a critical engagement with theories of universality offered by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Todd McGowan, whose work helps us to theorize universality in its conc…
The Politics of Identity, the Identity of Politics: Thinking with Badiou and Táíwò
A Sociological Analysis of 'OK Boomer
The year 2019 was the year of 'OK Boomer' (OKb). From The New York Times to the New Zealand legislature, OKb emerged as a pop cultural phenomenon. For some, this phrase represents a battle of the generations wherein Baby Boomers are fed up with the utopian demands of younger generations, while younger generations see Baby Boomers as stubbornly conservative and out of touch. Alternatively, some dismiss the generational warfare trope and demand we …
Class, generation and meme war: The capitalist realism of “OK Boomer”
Cultural political economy, crisis management, and Covid-19 in the United States
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has ravaged the world. The pace at which this pandemic spread left policy makers scrambling to understand the virus and craft ameliorative policy measures, while populations struggled to make sense of the pandemic’s impact on their lives. This opened up many opportunities for crisis learning. This article deploys the Cultural Political Economy (CPE) approach to analyse discursive and material ways in which …
Revisiting Culture and Meaning-Making in World-Systems Analysis: A Proposal for Engaging with the Cultural Political Economy Approach
World-systems analysis (WSA) understands socio-cultural phenomena as fundamental to the operation of global capitalism, whether through geocultures that sustain centrist liberalism, the emergence of capitalist subjectivities, or by generating structures of knowledge that bound political possibilities. Nonetheless, many scholars critique WSA's treatment of culture as reductive and epiphenomenal. How can we theorize culture's relationship to global…
What can sociologists of globalization and development learn from Nicos Poulantzas
Several decades ago scholars studying the state, political economy, and power relations were obliged to engage with the ideas of Nicos Poulantzas. Today, his ideas are hard to find in most sociological theorizing—particularly in the United States. This trend is unfortunate, but not unavoidable. This article proposes that we reconsider the insights of Poulantzas as well as the growing community of scholars building a neo-Poulantzasian approach for…
Political, Economic, and Ideological Warfare in Somalia
Somalia rarely makes world news headlines. The occasional story of Somali “pirates” hijacking a cargo ship, or a siege of a shopping mall by armed militants might be mentioned in major press outlet
The Evolution of Political Violence: The Case of Somalia's Al-Shabaab
This research investigates the development and expansion of the al-Shabaab movement in Somalia from 2000 to 2013. Initially a marginal player in Somalia, by 2013 al-Shabaab had transformed into the most formidable armed opposition to challenge the nascent Somali government and its allies. During this time period they administered territory domestically, while expanding their tactical repertoire and geographic scope of attacks. After analyzing the…
Universality, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Uprising
This article offers a theoretically informed case study of the George Floyd Uprising that emerged in May 2020. In addition to analyzing details of the uprising, it illustrates the ways in which particular uprisings can register at the level of the universal. I make this point through a critical engagement with theories of universality offered by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Todd McGowan, whose work helps us to theorize universality in its conc…
The Evolution of Political Violence: The Case of Somalia's Al-Shabaab
This research investigates the development and expansion of the al-Shabaab movement in Somalia from 2000 to 2013. Initially a marginal player in Somalia, by 2013 al-Shabaab had transformed into the most formidable armed opposition to challenge the nascent Somali government and its allies. During this time period they administered territory domestically, while expanding their tactical repertoire and geographic scope of attacks. After analyzing the…
Revisiting Culture and Meaning-Making in World-Systems Analysis: A Proposal for Engaging with the Cultural Political Economy Approach
World-systems analysis (WSA) understands socio-cultural phenomena as fundamental to the operation of global capitalism, whether through geocultures that sustain centrist liberalism, the emergence of capitalist subjectivities, or by generating structures of knowledge that bound political possibilities. Nonetheless, many scholars critique WSA's treatment of culture as reductive and epiphenomenal. How can we theorize culture's relationship to global…
Youth Politics and Cognitive Mapping in the United States: From #OKBoomer to #BlackLivesMatter and #CeasefireNow
A new political diagonal: How students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine
State Strategy, Diamond Mining, and Indigenous Dispossession in Botswana
In a world-system built through dispossession and exploitation of African and Indigenous peoples, the case of the San in Botswana is significant. The government of Botswana recently led a protracted campaign of dispossession of the Indigenous San, likely due to there being diamond reserves near and within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. This article argues that synthesizing critical theories of accumulation, dispossession, and State strategy c…
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull
Dystopian visions of global pandemics, political crises, and human suffering abound, from fictitious television shows to the ongoing ravages of COVID-19. When we witness isolated instances of suffering and collective struggle, and identify their relationship to large-scale social crises, we are unveiling pieces of the totality. Things which might otherwise be portrayed as a local problem are instead viewed as a part of a larger social system. The…
What can sociologists of globalization and development learn from Nicos Poulantzas
Several decades ago scholars studying the state, political economy, and power relations were obliged to engage with the ideas of Nicos Poulantzas. Today, his ideas are hard to find in most sociological theorizing—particularly in the United States. This trend is unfortunate, but not unavoidable. This article proposes that we reconsider the insights of Poulantzas as well as the growing community of scholars building a neo-Poulantzasian approach for…
The Evolution of Political Violence: The Case of Somalia's Al-Shabaab
This research investigates the development and expansion of the al-Shabaab movement in Somalia from 2000 to 2013. Initially a marginal player in Somalia, by 2013 al-Shabaab had transformed into the most formidable armed opposition to challenge the nascent Somali government and its allies. During this time period they administered territory domestically, while expanding their tactical repertoire and geographic scope of attacks. After analyzing the…
What can sociologists of globalization and development learn from Nicos Poulantzas
Several decades ago scholars studying the state, political economy, and power relations were obliged to engage with the ideas of Nicos Poulantzas. Today, his ideas are hard to find in most sociological theorizing—particularly in the United States. This trend is unfortunate, but not unavoidable. This article proposes that we reconsider the insights of Poulantzas as well as the growing community of scholars building a neo-Poulantzasian approach for…
Political, Economic, and Ideological Warfare in Somalia
Somalia rarely makes world news headlines. The occasional story of Somali “pirates” hijacking a cargo ship, or a siege of a shopping mall by armed militants might be mentioned in major press outlet
Revisiting Culture and Meaning-Making in World-Systems Analysis: A Proposal for Engaging with the Cultural Political Economy Approach
World-systems analysis (WSA) understands socio-cultural phenomena as fundamental to the operation of global capitalism, whether through geocultures that sustain centrist liberalism, the emergence of capitalist subjectivities, or by generating structures of knowledge that bound political possibilities. Nonetheless, many scholars critique WSA's treatment of culture as reductive and epiphenomenal. How can we theorize culture's relationship to global…
Class, generation and meme war: The capitalist realism of “OK Boomer”
Cultural political economy, crisis management, and Covid-19 in the United States
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has ravaged the world. The pace at which this pandemic spread left policy makers scrambling to understand the virus and craft ameliorative policy measures, while populations struggled to make sense of the pandemic’s impact on their lives. This opened up many opportunities for crisis learning. This article deploys the Cultural Political Economy (CPE) approach to analyse discursive and material ways in which …
A Sociological Analysis of 'OK Boomer
The year 2019 was the year of 'OK Boomer' (OKb). From The New York Times to the New Zealand legislature, OKb emerged as a pop cultural phenomenon. For some, this phrase represents a battle of the generations wherein Baby Boomers are fed up with the utopian demands of younger generations, while younger generations see Baby Boomers as stubbornly conservative and out of touch. Alternatively, some dismiss the generational warfare trope and demand we …
Does the United States owe reparations to Somalia
For over twenty years the United States government has engaged in what it calls a global ‘war on terror’ (GWOT). This war spans continents and while US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq receive modest attention, the secretive US war in Somalia remains under-discussed. This article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of what the US has done in Somalia since 2001, considering the political, economic and ideological elements of these…
Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull
Dystopian visions of global pandemics, political crises, and human suffering abound, from fictitious television shows to the ongoing ravages of COVID-19. When we witness isolated instances of suffering and collective struggle, and identify their relationship to large-scale social crises, we are unveiling pieces of the totality. Things which might otherwise be portrayed as a local problem are instead viewed as a part of a larger social system. The…
Climate change, counter-terrorism and capitalist development in Somalia
Somalia is often referred to as a ‘failed state’. In addition to ineffective governance, feeble economic development, and a large anti-government insurgency, it faces increasingly severe climate change-induced devastation. This article offers a critical discussion of the role of capitalist interests and ideology as a factor in the climate crisis. It explores interlocking issues of (1) the relationship between the ruling political class of Somalia…
Universality, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Uprising
This article offers a theoretically informed case study of the George Floyd Uprising that emerged in May 2020. In addition to analyzing details of the uprising, it illustrates the ways in which particular uprisings can register at the level of the universal. I make this point through a critical engagement with theories of universality offered by Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Todd McGowan, whose work helps us to theorize universality in its conc…
The Politics of Identity, the Identity of Politics: Thinking with Badiou and Táíwò
Theorising universality in the modern world-system: The abstract, the concrete, and the case of Botswana
There are long-standing disagreements across the humanities and social sciences regarding the relevance and necessity of using the concept of ‘universality’. The debate is often framed as a competition between acknowledging particularities of social struggles and identities, against universalising tendencies or interests across the world-system. Within these debates, universality may be conceptualised as an abstract totality that fails to apply u…
Medelacide: The intentional and systematic destruction of healthcare infrastructure
When analysing recurrent global social problems, new theories and concepts often emerge. This is the outcome of not only needing a vocabulary to identify and document problems as they unfold, but to label the specific problem as one in need of solving. Once a term is developed and popularised it allows scholars, lawyers and human rights advocates to demand answers or redress from those responsible for generating such societal ills. Examples of th…
Youth Politics and Cognitive Mapping in the United States: From #OKBoomer to #BlackLivesMatter and #CeasefireNow
A new political diagonal: How students in the United States constructed internationalist solidarity with Palestine
State Strategy, Diamond Mining, and Indigenous Dispossession in Botswana
In a world-system built through dispossession and exploitation of African and Indigenous peoples, the case of the San in Botswana is significant. The government of Botswana recently led a protracted campaign of dispossession of the Indigenous San, likely due to there being diamond reserves near and within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. This article argues that synthesizing critical theories of accumulation, dispossession, and State strategy c…
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