Robert Latham

Biographic Data

ID3677097
NAMERobert Latham
GIVEN NAMESRobert
FAMILY NAMELatham
SIGNATURELATHAM R
AFFILIATIONSYork University
ORCID0000-0003-1539-9686
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS123
AUTHOR COUNT31
EDITOR COUNT13
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • Organizing Anticapitalist Internationalism in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLERethinking Marxism2022Cited by: 1References: 6

    Although transnational collective anticapitalist action is the Left’s historical instinct, past efforts at collaboration failed at building a comprehensive, inclusive, and sustainable international. Reflecting on internationalism’s history, this essay challenges assumptions and approaches to internationalism and unity. History suggests common aims and solidarity are insufficient, especially when the pursuit of collaboration from distinct position…

  • Neoliberalism’s Zeitgeist: The Untethered Disposition of Capitalism

    Robert LathamARTICLENew Political Science2021

    Recent observers from the financial world have described the current status of the economy as lIunhinged” and traversing lIunchartered territory.” These expressions reflect the unprecedented freeing of capitalism from established conventions, norms, practices, and regulations underway since the 1970s and the ascendence of neoliberalism; a process that is not captured by the allied concepts lIunfettered” and financialization. Capitalism has been u…

  • Crisis and organizing anti-capitalist consciousness in the aftermath of Covid-19

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLEHuman Geography2020

    For leftists, the “COVID crisis” reveals and intensifies the conditions of exploitation and oppression under capitalism. Can a meaningful movement of workers and the oppressed arise, especially if a longer economic crisis unfolds? Making more visible or intense does not automatically translate into awakening. This essay examines the possibilities for substantial, sustained anti-capitalist organization, given the limits and complexities of worker …

  • Augmenting the Left

    A T Kingsmith, Julian Von Bargen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Discourse2018References: 19

    Nine papers with respective replies, grounded in Marxist traditions, analyse the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of the far Right worldwide. Papers variously take up new lines of analysis, while also identifying and theorizing strategies and possibilities for increasing and deepening popular participation and support on the far Left. Authors are drawn variously fro…

  • Contemporary capitalism, uneven development, and the arc of anti-capitalism

    Robert LathamARTICLEGlobal Discourse2018Cited by: 2References: 11

    Uneven and combined development remains crucial for understanding the continued widening and deepening of capitalism. However, the nature of the heterogeneous and uneven development of contemporary capitalism, especially since the 1970s, makes problematic the characterization of capitalist totality, as a coherent stage and as a singular, albeit uneven, combination. This complicates the successful pursuit of anti-capitalism, which now requires var…

  • Radical Left and Social Transformation

    Robert Latham, Karen Bridget Murray et al.BOOKRadical Left and Social…2018

  • Politics of Evasion: A Post-Globalization Dialogue

    Robert LathamBOOKPolitics of Evasion2016

  • Introduction Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion

    Robert Latham, L F Vosko et al.CHAPTERLiberating Temporariness?2014

  • Temporal Orders, Re-collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States

    Robert LathamCHAPTERLiberating Temporariness?2014

  • The Governance of Visibility: Bodies, Information, and the Politics of Anonymity across the US-Mexico Borderlands

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLEAlternatives Global Local Political2014Cited by: 4References: 5

    This article explores the relationship between information and mobility as it is manifest at the Mexico-US border and understands that border to be one, although very important, site of information processing and production. Within the electronic as well as the physical spaces of the Mexico-US borderlands, it is argued that practices of evasion and exposure produce specific forms of politics. These forms bear on the militarization of the border, …

  • Liberating Temporariness: Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

    Preston, Leah F Vosko et al.BOOKLiberating Temporariness?2014Cited by: 21

  • Spatial Alternatives and Counter-Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine

    Open AccessNir Gazit, Robert LathamARTICLEInternational Political Sociology2014Cited by: 3References: 66

    The securitization of the spaces of Israeli-Palestinian interaction, from checkpoints to the West Bank Separation Wall, continues to intensify and receive attention from journalists, scholars, and activists. Understandably, the focus is on the negative consequences of existing spatial configurations. Receiving far less attention is the development of alternative spatial formations which might advance forms of “desecuritization,” especially in tho…

  • At the temporary-permanent divide: How Canada produces temporariness and makes citizens through its security, work, and settlement policies

    Deepa Rajkumar, Laurel Berkowitz et al.ARTICLECitizenship Studies2012Cited by: 36References: 26

    This paper explores the production of temporariness in Canada, and its implications for the citizenship rights of migrants. It investigates the production of temporariness within three policy fields that are typically not examined together – security, work and settlement. Within these three fields, it considers public policies concerning: (1) security of presence; (2) access to paid employment for spouses of migrants; and (3) eligibility for sett…

  • The great American mission: Modernization and the construction of an American world order

    Robert Latham, Robert E LathamARTICLECold War History2011Cited by: 1

    The great American mission: modernization and the construction of an American world order." Cold War History, 11(2), pp. 272–273

  • Border formations: Security and Subjectivity at the Border

    Robert LathamARTICLECitizenship Studies2010Cited by: 7References: 33

    This paper offers a normative argument for reconfiguring borders that rests on a critique of intersecting logics bearing on security, incorporation, agency, subjectivity, encounter, and citizenship. Especially important to my critique is the mutually reinforcing relationship between border security and prevalent assimilationist and integrationist forms of incorporation associated with the dominant single-citizenship model. I offer instead an alte…

  • What are We: From a Multicultural to a Multiversal Canada

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…2008Cited by: 6

    Samuel Huntington's most recent book, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity, contends that the future of American democracy rests on the prospect of defending the Anglo-Protestant culture that has been centre stage in US political history. Many commentators have rightly questioned the premises of this book. Rather than join in, let me point your attention to Huntington's use of the pronoun who. It's a choice that leaves little…

  • Knowledge and governance in the digital age: The politics of monitoring planetary life

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLEFirst Monday2006

    Planetary phenomena, such as global climate change and transborder disease transmission, are increasing subject to monitoring aided by advances in surveillance and data processing technologies. The most powerful governments of the world, especially the United States, are building monitoring systems they can control. Communities and activists around the world face a fundamental choice: become involved in shaping those systems so they better serve …

  • Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm

    Robert Latham, Sassen et al.BOOKDigital Formations2005

    Linda Garcia 117 Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet by Robert Latham 146 The Political Economy of Open Source Software and Why It Matters by Steven Weber 178 DESIGNS AND INSTITUTIONS 213 Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks by Hayward R. Alker 215 Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation by Warren Sack 242 Transnational Communication and the European Demos by Lar…

  • Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power

    Open AccessAbigail Kabandula, Timothy M Shaw et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2003Cited by: 3

  • Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption

    Rob Latham, Robert LathamBOOKConsuming Youth2002

  • Information Technology and Social Transformation

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLEInternational Studies Review2002Cited by: 1

    Books reviewed in this article: Barney, Darin Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology Dodge, Martin and Kitchin, Rob Mapping Cyberspace Miller, Daniel and Slater, Don The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach Arquilla, John and Ronfeldt, David The Emergence of Noopolitik: Toward an American Information Strategy

  • The Public Relevance of International Security Research in an Era of Globalism

    Martin Benjamin Malin, Robert LathamARTICLEInternational Studies Perspectives2001Cited by: 1

    International relations specialists have frequently questioned whether their academic research and teaching has any impact on the “real world.” The record of success is generally believed to be a spotty one. While there is no denying that academics have informed aspects of policymaking, the concern remains that the great bulk of international studies research is too abstract, specialized, or linguistically incestuous to reach the light of day in …

  • Social Sovereignty

    Open AccessRobert LathamARTICLETheory Culture & Society2000Cited by: 25References: 5

    Questions of sovereignty are unavoidable when considering the production of social power within the context of modernity and globalization. If sovereignty refers to the existence of a highest or supreme power over a set of people, things, or places, then we ought to question whether sovereignty can be legitimately 'located' in an agent like a state. Is not supremacy more accurately associated with the structures of relations that set the terms fo…

  • National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems

    Open AccessRobert LathamREVIEWPolitical Science Quarterly1999

    Journal Article National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems Get access National Collective Identity: Social Constructs and International Systems by Rodney Bruce Hall. New York, Columbia University Press, 1999. 397 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.50. Robert Latham Robert Latham Social Science Research Council Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114…

  • Globalisation and democratic provisionism: Re‐reading Polanyi

    Robert LathamARTICLENew Political Economy1997Cited by: 2References: 3