Geoffrey Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3753353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8604-0198 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Food is Freedom
Kuwait's cooperative societies ("co-ops") are vital institutions that are a hub for social, economic, and political activities. In this article we focus on the purpose of co-ops from a socio-political perspective. We argue that co-ops function both as bottom-up organizations and as a means of upholding citizen autonomy versus the state. Historically they emerged as grassroots initiatives in the pre-oil era and have played a significant role in th…
The Consequences of Some Angry Re-Tweets
Most research on the Gulf states focuses on oil and its impact on state power. The literature on rentier theory almost unanimously agrees that oil rents buy off citizens and lead to socio-political stagnation. Massive protests and government attempts to address citizen demands in Kuwait between 2011 and 2013 call into question that narrative. Since those protests, the Kuwaiti government has taken steps to increase its representation of public off…
The Role of Culture in Global Structural Transformation
There is increasing awareness that the world is going through fundamental changes at the level of the basic organization of the global political economy, and of the belief systems that have sustained human social and political life for the last several centuries. The seventeenth century was such a time, in which what we now call central and western Europe passed through a “fundamental historical crisis,” an age in which all human institutions—pol…
The Immorality of the Contras' Resort to War
In the last several years a great deal of attention has been focused on the Sandinista government of Nicaragua and on the forces which are attempting to topple it. This attention has focused almost exclusively on the disintegration of the Contra political leadership and most recently on the U.S. Iran-Contra affair, however. Surprisingly little systematic effort has been directed toward an assessment of the morality of the original resort to viole…
A History of Yorkshire. (The City of York)
The Town
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A History of Yorkshire. (The City of York)
The Town
The Immorality of the Contras' Resort to War
In the last several years a great deal of attention has been focused on the Sandinista government of Nicaragua and on the forces which are attempting to topple it. This attention has focused almost exclusively on the disintegration of the Contra political leadership and most recently on the U.S. Iran-Contra affair, however. Surprisingly little systematic effort has been directed toward an assessment of the morality of the original resort to viole…
The Role of Culture in Global Structural Transformation
There is increasing awareness that the world is going through fundamental changes at the level of the basic organization of the global political economy, and of the belief systems that have sustained human social and political life for the last several centuries. The seventeenth century was such a time, in which what we now call central and western Europe passed through a “fundamental historical crisis,” an age in which all human institutions—pol…
The Consequences of Some Angry Re-Tweets
Most research on the Gulf states focuses on oil and its impact on state power. The literature on rentier theory almost unanimously agrees that oil rents buy off citizens and lead to socio-political stagnation. Massive protests and government attempts to address citizen demands in Kuwait between 2011 and 2013 call into question that narrative. Since those protests, the Kuwaiti government has taken steps to increase its representation of public off…
Food is Freedom
Kuwait's cooperative societies ("co-ops") are vital institutions that are a hub for social, economic, and political activities. In this article we focus on the purpose of co-ops from a socio-political perspective. We argue that co-ops function both as bottom-up organizations and as a means of upholding citizen autonomy versus the state. Historically they emerged as grassroots initiatives in the pre-oil era and have played a significant role in th…
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