L Sklair
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 38957 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Sklair |
| PRENOMES | L |
| SOBRENOME | Sklair |
| ASSINATURA | SKLAIR L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9582-9684 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 85 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 532 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1968 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Transnational Capitalist Class
The transnational capitalist class, as a theoretical concept and an empirical reality, has its origins in theories of capitalist globalization developed since the 1960s. Traditional Marxist theories of the international bourgeoisie tend to be conceptualized in state‐centrist terms and to focus mainly on business leaders, usually big capitalists, and their corporations in rich and powerful countries exploiting capitalists, workers, and peasants in…
Afterword
Beleaguered City, Beleaguered Planet
This article sets out to analyze the connections between three different but related phenomena (capitalist globalization, the Anthropocene, and the coronavirus epidemic) through the lens of iconic buildings and spaces and the cities in which they are mostly found. I argue that the transnational capitalist class uses cities as competitors in a global system of lucrative investment opportunities. Capitalist globalization is widely implicated in the…
Development, post-development, and the pluriverse’
The Pluriverse is the latest in a line of critical conceptual dictionaries problematizing the idea of ‘development’ from a variety of left-leaning progressive perspectives. The editors provide a lengthy set of introductions and rationales for the book, followed by a number of essays on why ‘reformist solutions’ won't work. The core of the book: ‘A People's Pluriverse: Transformative Initiatives’ consists of about 80 shorter essays by scholars and…
Introduction to the Special Issue on World-Systems Analysis and the Anthropocene
Across the social sciences and humanities, and in diverse forms of popular media around the world, discourse about the Anthropocene is proliferating. From the plastic particles found in deep sea trenches to the unfolding of Earth’s sixth mass extinction, among many other indicators—notably anthropogenic climate change—it is clear that human impacts may have irreversibly perturbed the planet. This special issue sets out to deepen and broaden the c…
World revolution or socialism, community by community, in the Anthropocene
The idea of a Fifth International has been around for some time and the historical record is not encouraging. We have all been wrestling with the contradictions the Left faces. The transnational capitalist class has taken setbacks in its stride, while the Left flounders almost everywhere. No communist revolution has resulted in the capture of power by the working class. Now we are all confronted by a new, rapidly unfolding ecological crisis, the …
World Revolution or Socialism, Community by Community, in the Anthropocene
Like Robinson, Sklair is critical of Amin's state-centrism, and he sees the international system of hierarchical states: “The power of capitalist hegemony today is so overwhelming (allied as it is with the military and police powers of states) that the only viable strategy for change is by a process of negating, avoiding, and eventually consigning capitalism and the state to the dustbin of history.” He argues that, “Putting all our energies into …
The corporate capture of sustainable development and its transformation into a ‘good Anthropocene’ historical bloc
Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s analysis of bourgeois hegemony and his theoretical formulation of historical blocs, this paper attempts to explain how the concept and practice of sustainable development were captured by corporate interests in the last few decades of the twentieth century and how they were transformed into what we can name a ‘good Anthropocene’ historical bloc at the beginning of the twentyfirst century. This corporate capture is th…
Transnational Capitalist Class, The
Capitalism (Global)
While the idea of international capitalism has been part of political economy and related disciplines for more than a century, the concept of global capitalism is of more recent origin. Despite the fact that many scholars have used the terms interchangeably, one consequence of the popularity of the concept of globalization in the 1990s was the increasing force of the argument for a firm distinction between the terms. International capitalism has …
The Icon Project
In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service of private interests. Whereas in the past monumental architecture often had a strong public component, the urban ziggurats of today are emblems and conduit…
Capitalism
Global Economy
While they are often used interchangeably, the idea of the global economy should be clearly distinguished from the idea of the international economy. The international economy refers to the sum of all the relations between the national economies of all the countries in the world, particularly binational and multinational exchanges, whereas the global economy refers to the sum of all the relations between economic agents whether they are state or …
Ngo/Ingo
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are umbrella terms that refer to organizations not directly controlled by the state or governments, mostly concerned with human rights of various kinds (including civic and political, economic and social, and environmental rights), professional and occupational interests, and various other enthusiasms. They range from very large organizations with conside…
The Icon Project
This article—a product of current research on iconic architecture and capitalist globalization—argues that iconicity in general, and in architecture and urban design in particular is a telling case study of how the four fractions of the transnational capitalist class (corporate, political, professional, and consumerist) act to sustain and enlarge their hegemony through the use of both intangible and tangible objects that foster the global diffusi…
Transnational Capitalist Class
The transnational capitalist class (TCC) as a theoretical concept and an empirical reality has its origins in theories of capitalist globalization developed since the 1960s. Traditional Marxist theories of the international bourgeoisie tend to be conceptualized in state‐centrist terms and to focus mainly on business leaders, usually big capitalists, and their corporations in rich and powerful countries exploiting capitalists, workers and peasants…
Iconic architecture as a hegemonic project of the transnational capitalist class
Identifying the drivers of actually existing capitalist globalization as the transnational capitalist class, this paper suggests that theory and research on its agents and institutions could help us to explain how the dominant forms of contemporary iconic architecture arise and how they serve the interests of globalizing capitalists. We define iconic architecture in terms of buildings and/or spaces that are famous, and that have distinctive symbo…
Building Globalization
Capitalist globalization, corporate social responsibility and social policy
This article outlines how the twin crises of capitalist globalization — of class polarization and ecological unsustainability — combine to produce the need for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to attempt to bridge the gap between the rhetoric and reality of corporate conduct. The first section outlines how CSR relates to capitalist globalization and how it is integrated into the activities of the Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC). The rol…
Architecture
Iconic Architecture and the Culture-ideology of Consumerism
This article explores the theoretical and substantive connections between iconicity and consumerism in the field of contemporary iconic architecture within the framework of a critical theory of globalization. Iconicity in architecture is defined in terms of fame and special symbolic/aesthetic significance as applied to buildings, spaces and in some cases architects themselves. Iconic architecture is conceptualized as a hegemonic project of the tr…
The globalization of human rights
The argument of this article is that what I term generic globalization has created unprecedented opportunities for advances in human rights universally, but that the dominant actually existing historical form of globalization – capitalist globalization – undermines these opportunities. Substantively, I argue that taking the globalization of human rights seriously means eliminating the ideological distinction that exists between civil and politica…
The Emancipatory Potential of Generic Globalization
The debate around globalization is entering a new and more mature phase reflected in the fact that it is now generally accepted that we live in an era of globalization. However, the concept is used in a bewildering variety of ways. Here I attempt to deconstruct it by distinguishing three modes of globalization in theory and practice, namely: generic, capitalist, and alternative globalizations. My argument is that globalization in a generic sense …
Commentary
Ngo/Ingo
Non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) and international non‐governmental organizations (INGOs) are umbrella terms that refer to organizations not directly controlled by the state or governments, mostly concerned with human rights of various kinds (including civic and political, economic and social, and environmental rights), professional and occupational interests, and various other enthusiasms. They range from very large organizations with consi…
Social movements for global capitalism
The thesis that 'Capitalism does not just happen' is argued with reference to Gramsci, hegemony and the critique of state centrism. This involves a critique of the assumption that ruling classes rule effortlessly, and raises the issue: Does globalization increase the pressures on ruling classes to deliver? Global system theory is outlined in terms of transnational practices in the economic, political, and culture and ideology spheres and the char…
Iconic architecture and capitalist globalization
The production of architectural iconicity and its relationship to contemporary capitalist globalization is the focus of this article by Leslie Sklair. While Sklair notes that iconicity can take a range of forms, here he is particularly concerned to understand the iconicity ascribed to buildings or spaces (or indeed architects) on the basis of their uniqueness or difference. For Sklair, this form of contemporary iconic architecture is now corporat…
The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing Cities
The focus of this article is on the role of the transnational capitalist class (TCC) in and around architecture in the production and marketing of iconic buildings and spaces, in global or world cities. The TCC is conceptualized in terms of four fractions: (1) Those who own and/or and control the major transnational corporations and their local affiliates (corporate fraction). In architecture these are the major architectural, architecture-engine…
Iconic Architecture and the Culture-ideology of Consumerism
This article explores the theoretical and substantive connections between iconicity and consumerism in the field of contemporary iconic architecture within the framework of a critical theory of globalization. Iconicity in architecture is defined in terms of fame and special symbolic/aesthetic significance as applied to buildings, spaces and in some cases architects themselves. Iconic architecture is conceptualized as a hegemonic project of the tr…
The Transnational Capitalist Class and Global Politics
Transnational corporations (tncs) engage in a variety of political activities that take place at all levels of the political sphere, from community and urban through national to global politics, and involve many different groups of actors. This article addresses two sets of questions: (1) What forms do these activities take? (2) Do they enhance or undermine democracy? The systemic organization of politics for global capitalism is conceptualized i…
The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalisation
Transnational corporations (TNCs), the transnational capitalist class (TCC) and the culture‐ideology of consumerism are the three building blocks of what is termed ‘global system theory’, an attempt to conceptualise capitalist globalisation. This articles focuses on the transnational capitalist class and its four fractions: owners and controllers of TNCs and their local affiliates; globalising bureaucrats and politicians; globalising professional…
Democracy and the Transnational Capitalist Class
While globalization means many different things to many different people, there is growing consensus that capitalist globalization is its most powerful contemporary form. This article argues that capitalist globalization, and thus effective power in the global system, is increasingly in the hands of a transnational capitalist class (TCC) comprising four fractions: those who own and control the major corporations and their local affiliates, global…
Peasants in History
Transcending the impasse
Competing Conceptions of Globalization
Globalization is a relatively new idea in the social sciences, although people who work in and write about the mass media, transnational corporations and international business have been using it for some time. The purpose of this paper is to critically review the ways in which sociologists and other social scientists use ideas of globalization and to evaluate the fruitfulness of these competing conceptions. The central feature of the idea of glo…
The Limits of Globalization
Assembling for Development
Assembling for Development
Iconic architecture as a hegemonic project of the transnational capitalist class
Identifying the drivers of actually existing capitalist globalization as the transnational capitalist class, this paper suggests that theory and research on its agents and institutions could help us to explain how the dominant forms of contemporary iconic architecture arise and how they serve the interests of globalizing capitalists. We define iconic architecture in terms of buildings and/or spaces that are famous, and that have distinctive symbo…
Global capitalism and major corporations from the Third World
Most major transnational corporations (TNCs) are domiciled in the First World and are owned and controlled largely by citizens of these countries. On the basis of an analysis of the largest corporations outside the USA by revenues published annually by Fortune magazine since the 1950s, this paper demonstrates that there have been major corporations from the Third World for decades. Most of the literature on Third World TNCs concentrates on the la…
Social Movements and Global Capitalism
While capitalism is increasingly organised on a global basis, effective opposition to capitalist practices tends to be manifest locally. The traditional response of the labour movement to global capitalism has been to try to forge international links between workers' organisations in different countries. This strategy, despite some successes, has generally failed and the paper argues that the relationship between the labour movement and the New S…
The Maquilas in Mexico
In Mexico, as in many other Third World countries in recent years, the belief in export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology (ELIFFIT) is beginning to displace other available development strategies, such as import substitution, varying degrees of autarky, or the traditional reliance on primary product export. This paper explores how the maquila industry along the Mexico-US border, by spearheading ELIFFIT, has helped…
Capitalist globalization, corporate social responsibility and social policy
This article outlines how the twin crises of capitalist globalization — of class polarization and ecological unsustainability — combine to produce the need for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to attempt to bridge the gap between the rhetoric and reality of corporate conduct. The first section outlines how CSR relates to capitalist globalization and how it is integrated into the activities of the Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC). The rol…
Problems of Socialist Development
The globalization of human rights
The argument of this article is that what I term generic globalization has created unprecedented opportunities for advances in human rights universally, but that the dominant actually existing historical form of globalization – capitalist globalization – undermines these opportunities. Substantively, I argue that taking the globalization of human rights seriously means eliminating the ideological distinction that exists between civil and politica…
The Emancipatory Potential of Generic Globalization
The debate around globalization is entering a new and more mature phase reflected in the fact that it is now generally accepted that we live in an era of globalization. However, the concept is used in a bewildering variety of ways. Here I attempt to deconstruct it by distinguishing three modes of globalization in theory and practice, namely: generic, capitalist, and alternative globalizations. My argument is that globalization in a generic sense …
Globalization and the Corporations
This article argues that there is a genuine process of globalization taking place among the Fortune Global 500 corporations domiciled in California. Globalization is assessed in terms of four criteria: (1) foreign direct investment; (2) benchmarking and world best practice; (3) global corporate citizenship; and (4) global vision. The study is based on interviews in ten of the fifteen Global 500 corporations in California, plus one private corpora…
The Evolution of Society
As political actors
Microcircuits of Capital
The Evolution of Society
On race relations
The Idea of Progress
Social Scientists and International Affairs
The Fate of the 'Functional Requisites' in Parsonian Sociology
The work of Talcott Parsons, now spanning forty years of remarkably prolific publication, is best seen as an elaborate, sometimes ingenious and sometimes vacuous, attempt to solve the Hobbesean problem of order. This problem, expressed in simple terms, is bound up with the reasons why society does not fall apart, why people do what has to be done, and, a more recent aspect, how social evolution guarantees more efficient solutions of these problem…
The Political Sociology of Science
Moral Progress Revisited
The Sociology of the Opposition to Science and Technology
The history, philosophy, sociology and even the science of science are by now thriving activities. This is in no way surprising; indeed if one examines the development of each of these approaches to the study of sciences, the surprising thing is that it emerged so comparatively recently. The history of science as an academic discipline tends to begin with a reference to Comte's grand scheme of the mid-nineteenth century, passing through Sarton's …
The Sociology of Progress
The Sociology of Progress
Book Reviews Get access The Sociology of Progress. By Leslie Sklair. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1970. Pp. xvi + 272. Price £3.25) Elizabeth Vallance Elizabeth Vallance Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 86, January 1972, Pages 88–89, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218615 Published: 01 January 1972
Explanation in the Behavioural Sciences
The Sociology of Progress
Organised Knowledge
Organized Knowledge
The Sociology of Science
Inside China
Ideology and the Sociological Utopias
Prelude to Revolution
Estrangenment, Alienation and Exploitation
Relations of production, productive forces and the mass line in the formation of the rural people's communes in China∗
The structure, pace and uneven progress of the collectivisation of Chinese agriculture can be explained in terms of contradictions that persisited between relations of production and productive forces in the countryside and the ways in which these contradictions could be confronted through the application of the principle of the mass line. The formation and subsequent re‐organisation of the Rural People's Communes is interpreted as a necessary re…
Fei Hsiao-Tiung
Peasants in History
Shenzhen
Free Zones, Development and the New International Division of Labour
Investing in Free Export Processing Zones. By Antoine Basile and Dimitri Germidis. Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, 1985, Pp. 68. £5.50. ISBN 92 64 12634 1
From conquest to compromise
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