Matt Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 3989207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8817-4376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 201 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
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Acquiring Polish noun inflection
Complex systems of inflectional morphology provide a useful testing ground for input-based language acquisition theories. Two analyses were performed on a high-density (12%) naturalistic sample of two Polish-English children’s (2;0 and 3;11) and their parents’ use of Polish noun inflection: first, each child’s use of inflectional affixes and their lexical restrictedness was compared with their father’s equalised sample. Second, the children’s spo…
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio
Cities as aesthetic subjects
This article explores the theory of the subject and of subjectivity in relation to recent debates on the emergence of cities as spaces that are transforming global politics and international relations. Engaging with the contributions to the theory of the subject in the work of Michael Shapiro, Gayatri Spivak, and Jodi Dean, the argument develops an account of the city as an aesthetic subject. In this account, subjectivity is not a property of an …
Music, time, and international political economy
Recent critical studies in International Political Economy (IPE) have engaged with the 'temporal turn' in International Relations. However, outside of postcolonial critiques, this temporal turn in IPE has not considered how subjects share time or how coevalness is produced. This paper explores the problem of coevalness by asking how music produces shared time and plural temporalities. It analyses a collection of experimental electronic music, 4 W…
How does finance affect the politics of everyday life?
This chapter examines two kinds of policy and political responses to the financial crisis–first, how international organisations and governments have responded, and second, how ordinary people and citizens have responded. The policies credit rating agencies prescribed have not varied much: austerity, privatisation, liberalisation. These policies are presented as medicine to ailing economies. But even as economic experts have devised these policie…
Neoliberalism, Violence, and the Body
What is the relationship between neoliberal subjectivities and sexual violence? Prevailing accounts of neoliberalism assert a particular notion of subjectivity, reflected in the notion of homo oeconomicus as an entrepreneur of the self, embedded in social relations of competition, with characteristics to enable behaviors that affirm or reproduce neoliberal rationality. This article, drawing upon the television series Dollhouse, argues for a contr…
From the BBC micro to micro
In this forum we celebrate research that helps to successfully bring the benefits of computing technologies to children, older adults, people with disabilities, and other populations that are often ignored in the design of mass-marketed products. --- Juan Pablo Hourcade, Editor
Everyday Life as Critique
This article argues that critical International Political Economy (IPE) has used an undertheorized notion of everyday life and that Henri Lefebvre’s approach to everyday life, when augmented by attending to specifically colonial modes of domination, provides a necessary theoretical basis for IPE to engage with the everyday. It thus explores the connections between critical IPE, the critique of everyday life, and postcolonial thought. It begins by…
As if “relations” mattered’
This is a reply to:Weber, Martin. 2014. “As if ‘relations’ mattered: how to subvert positional bias in social science with a lot of help from ‘others’....” Global Discourse. 4 (1): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2013.805513
The Aesthetics of the Financial Crisis
The ways that financialization has contributed to the technocratic and antipolitical management of economies have become ever more evident in the wake of the financial crisis that commenced in the autumn of 2007. This bracketing and suspension of politics occurs in various ways but significantly, it does so through the obscuring of work as a moment of economic life. If economics has been complicit in this antipolitics, can an aesthetic approach t…
A decade of negative thinking
by Mira Schor Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2009, 324 pages ISBN: 978-0-8223-4602-9 (paperback) Price $24.95 Reviewed by Matt Davies, Newcastle University The essays collected in A
Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies
pt. 1. Developments in East Asia and the world economy -- pt. 2. Case studies of Mekong countries -- pt. 3. Political economy of reform in the Mekong
You Can't Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!' Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's transformation from an alienating burden imposed upon the worker into the prospect for autonomy and self-creation through the struggle to integrate creativity with sociability. This transformation of work is realized through a transformation of space that, in turn, signals a connection between the critique of work and the critique of International Relatio…
Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture—World Politics Continuum
In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics
Indonesia's War over Aceh
Since 2001, Indonesia’s military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia’s largest wars for decades. Indonesia's War over Aceh presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the recent tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention. Using military doctrinal references and extensive, original research, Davies reconstructs reported events, com…
The public spheres of unprotected workers
This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces, focusing on how ‘unprotected’ workers in household relations of production can become political subjects antagonistic to world order. For unprotected workers the very lack of institutional protection makes articulating political demands risky. At the same time, the need to conceptualise the manner in which the workers in the households and in proxima…
The Everyday Spaces of Global Politics
Despite many innovative contributions to international relations theory over the past two decades, a “common sense” view of global politics continues to persist both in the field and in the arenas of public policy and opinion. This article investigates the origins of this persistence and offers an alternative framework for the analysis of global politics that considers international relations as social relations produced by a broad array of actor…
International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile
Foreword by Stephen Gill Preface List of Acronyms Map of Chile Introduction Origins of the Scientific Study of Mass Communications in Chile: 1958-1967 Challenges to the Chilean Regime and Critical Mass Communication Studies: 1967-1973 Repression and Resistance: 1973-1990 Conclusion: Present and Future in Chilean Communications Studies Endnotes Bibliography Index
Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture—World Politics Continuum
In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics
The Everyday Spaces of Global Politics
Despite many innovative contributions to international relations theory over the past two decades, a “common sense” view of global politics continues to persist both in the field and in the arenas of public policy and opinion. This article investigates the origins of this persistence and offers an alternative framework for the analysis of global politics that considers international relations as social relations produced by a broad array of actor…
Everyday Life as Critique
This article argues that critical International Political Economy (IPE) has used an undertheorized notion of everyday life and that Henri Lefebvre’s approach to everyday life, when augmented by attending to specifically colonial modes of domination, provides a necessary theoretical basis for IPE to engage with the everyday. It thus explores the connections between critical IPE, the critique of everyday life, and postcolonial thought. It begins by…
The public spheres of unprotected workers
This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces, focusing on how ‘unprotected’ workers in household relations of production can become political subjects antagonistic to world order. For unprotected workers the very lack of institutional protection makes articulating political demands risky. At the same time, the need to conceptualise the manner in which the workers in the households and in proxima…
Neoliberalism, Violence, and the Body
What is the relationship between neoliberal subjectivities and sexual violence? Prevailing accounts of neoliberalism assert a particular notion of subjectivity, reflected in the notion of homo oeconomicus as an entrepreneur of the self, embedded in social relations of competition, with characteristics to enable behaviors that affirm or reproduce neoliberal rationality. This article, drawing upon the television series Dollhouse, argues for a contr…
You Can't Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!' Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's transformation from an alienating burden imposed upon the worker into the prospect for autonomy and self-creation through the struggle to integrate creativity with sociability. This transformation of work is realized through a transformation of space that, in turn, signals a connection between the critique of work and the critique of International Relatio…
The Aesthetics of the Financial Crisis
The ways that financialization has contributed to the technocratic and antipolitical management of economies have become ever more evident in the wake of the financial crisis that commenced in the autumn of 2007. This bracketing and suspension of politics occurs in various ways but significantly, it does so through the obscuring of work as a moment of economic life. If economics has been complicit in this antipolitics, can an aesthetic approach t…
Legacies and futures for Global South research
Cities as aesthetic subjects
This article explores the theory of the subject and of subjectivity in relation to recent debates on the emergence of cities as spaces that are transforming global politics and international relations. Engaging with the contributions to the theory of the subject in the work of Michael Shapiro, Gayatri Spivak, and Jodi Dean, the argument develops an account of the city as an aesthetic subject. In this account, subjectivity is not a property of an …
International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile
Foreword by Stephen Gill Preface List of Acronyms Map of Chile Introduction Origins of the Scientific Study of Mass Communications in Chile: 1958-1967 Challenges to the Chilean Regime and Critical Mass Communication Studies: 1967-1973 Repression and Resistance: 1973-1990 Conclusion: Present and Future in Chilean Communications Studies Endnotes Bibliography Index
The Everyday Spaces of Global Politics
Despite many innovative contributions to international relations theory over the past two decades, a “common sense” view of global politics continues to persist both in the field and in the arenas of public policy and opinion. This article investigates the origins of this persistence and offers an alternative framework for the analysis of global politics that considers international relations as social relations produced by a broad array of actor…
The public spheres of unprotected workers
This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces, focusing on how ‘unprotected’ workers in household relations of production can become political subjects antagonistic to world order. For unprotected workers the very lack of institutional protection makes articulating political demands risky. At the same time, the need to conceptualise the manner in which the workers in the households and in proxima…
Indonesia's War over Aceh
Since 2001, Indonesia’s military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia’s largest wars for decades. Indonesia's War over Aceh presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the recent tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention. Using military doctrinal references and extensive, original research, Davies reconstructs reported events, com…
Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture—World Politics Continuum
In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics
Globalization and Development in the Mekong Economies
pt. 1. Developments in East Asia and the world economy -- pt. 2. Case studies of Mekong countries -- pt. 3. Political economy of reform in the Mekong
You Can't Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!' Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer1
Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's transformation from an alienating burden imposed upon the worker into the prospect for autonomy and self-creation through the struggle to integrate creativity with sociability. This transformation of work is realized through a transformation of space that, in turn, signals a connection between the critique of work and the critique of International Relatio…
A decade of negative thinking
by Mira Schor Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2009, 324 pages ISBN: 978-0-8223-4602-9 (paperback) Price $24.95 Reviewed by Matt Davies, Newcastle University The essays collected in A
The Aesthetics of the Financial Crisis
The ways that financialization has contributed to the technocratic and antipolitical management of economies have become ever more evident in the wake of the financial crisis that commenced in the autumn of 2007. This bracketing and suspension of politics occurs in various ways but significantly, it does so through the obscuring of work as a moment of economic life. If economics has been complicit in this antipolitics, can an aesthetic approach t…
As if “relations” mattered’
This is a reply to:Weber, Martin. 2014. “As if ‘relations’ mattered: how to subvert positional bias in social science with a lot of help from ‘others’....” Global Discourse. 4 (1): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2013.805513
Everyday Life as Critique
This article argues that critical International Political Economy (IPE) has used an undertheorized notion of everyday life and that Henri Lefebvre’s approach to everyday life, when augmented by attending to specifically colonial modes of domination, provides a necessary theoretical basis for IPE to engage with the everyday. It thus explores the connections between critical IPE, the critique of everyday life, and postcolonial thought. It begins by…
From the BBC micro to micro
In this forum we celebrate research that helps to successfully bring the benefits of computing technologies to children, older adults, people with disabilities, and other populations that are often ignored in the design of mass-marketed products. --- Juan Pablo Hourcade, Editor
Neoliberalism, Violence, and the Body
What is the relationship between neoliberal subjectivities and sexual violence? Prevailing accounts of neoliberalism assert a particular notion of subjectivity, reflected in the notion of homo oeconomicus as an entrepreneur of the self, embedded in social relations of competition, with characteristics to enable behaviors that affirm or reproduce neoliberal rationality. This article, drawing upon the television series Dollhouse, argues for a contr…
How does finance affect the politics of everyday life?
This chapter examines two kinds of policy and political responses to the financial crisis–first, how international organisations and governments have responded, and second, how ordinary people and citizens have responded. The policies credit rating agencies prescribed have not varied much: austerity, privatisation, liberalisation. These policies are presented as medicine to ailing economies. But even as economic experts have devised these policie…
Cities as aesthetic subjects
This article explores the theory of the subject and of subjectivity in relation to recent debates on the emergence of cities as spaces that are transforming global politics and international relations. Engaging with the contributions to the theory of the subject in the work of Michael Shapiro, Gayatri Spivak, and Jodi Dean, the argument develops an account of the city as an aesthetic subject. In this account, subjectivity is not a property of an …
Music, time, and international political economy
Recent critical studies in International Political Economy (IPE) have engaged with the 'temporal turn' in International Relations. However, outside of postcolonial critiques, this temporal turn in IPE has not considered how subjects share time or how coevalness is produced. This paper explores the problem of coevalness by asking how music produces shared time and plural temporalities. It analyses a collection of experimental electronic music, 4 W…
Acquiring Polish noun inflection
Complex systems of inflectional morphology provide a useful testing ground for input-based language acquisition theories. Two analyses were performed on a high-density (12%) naturalistic sample of two Polish-English children’s (2;0 and 3;11) and their parents’ use of Polish noun inflection: first, each child’s use of inflectional affixes and their lexical restrictedness was compared with their father’s equalised sample. Second, the children’s spo…
A wonderful global city? Resisting urban regeneration in Olympic Rio
Legacies and futures for Global South research
Thank You to Reviewers
Building Sites
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)