Maïa Pal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4085630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maïa Pal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maïa |
| FAMILY NAME | Pal |
| SIGNATURE | PAL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6102-4900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Valuing transition/transitioning value
The article considers the origins of capitalism in order to scrutinise critiques of Open Marxism and Political Marxism, to bring these not-so-distant approaches more into dialogue and enhance the explanatory and critical capacity of both. First, we discuss the centrality of class relations to both Open Marxism and Political Marxism. Second, we show that Open Marxism has been criticised for its failure to provide a comprehensive account of the ori…
Woven and warring cosmologies
Our article discusses the potential of the concept of ‘woven and warring cosmologies’ to better understand how various ways of making and ordering early modern politico-legal authority ‘hang together’. Through an exploration of literatures in history of international law (HIL) and Historical International Relations (HIR), which tend to remain legally anchored, focus on practices, or put forward ideational meta-concepts, we find that there is a ne…
Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure
There is a growing literature suggesting that the digital economy is taking us out of capitalism. While this manifests most notably as a diagnosis of ‘digital feudalism’ or ‘techno-feudalism’, a differing voice is McKenzie Wark, who suggests we have entered an entirely new mode of production altogether: ‘vectoralism’. This paper historicises and theorises our current conjuncture in relation to the potential multiplicity of modes of production, an…
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate
The increased interest in law and capitalism has not translated into an engagement in legal scholarship with the transition-to-capitalism debate. This article contributes a critique of commercialisation approaches to the history of capitalism and law from a Political Marxist perspective. It argues that combining jurisdiction and legal form provides a more flexible conceptual architecture to account for early-modern juridical practices. Conceptual…
Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism
This introduction presents the symposium on Sam Knafo and Benno Teschke’s article in Historical Materialism , ‘Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique’ (2021). It briefly summarises the foundations of Political Marxism, discusses the broader implications of the debate raised by Knafo and Teschke for questions of collective knowledge-production and methods in Marxist historiography, and outlines the se…
The Extraterritoriality of Law
Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas. Yet many accounts of extraterritoriality make little effort to grapple with its thorny conceptual history, shifting theoretical valence, and complex political roots and ramifications. T…
Extraterritoriality of Law
My Capitalism Is Bigger than Yours!’
This article reviews Alex Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (2015). It argues that the book offers a stimulating and ambitious approach to solving the problems of Eurocentrism and the origins of capitalism in growing critical scholarship in historical sociology and International Relations. However, by focusing on the ‘problem of the international’ and proposing a ‘single unified theo…
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
Anxieties regarding colonial and neoliberal education have generated multiple calls for critical international pedagogies. Scholars of critical pedagogy have analyzed the pedagogies of the neoliberal project, whose ethos and economic imperatives aim to produce apolitical consumers and future citizens. Such calls, this article argues, articulate a concern about other-regardedness, critiquing the impact of neoliberalism on the cultivation of studen…
Introduction to ‘Britain versus France
In memoriam of the late Ellen Meiksins Wood, this piece firstly remembers the main achievements of her forty years of work. Secondly, it introduces one of her contributions, ‘Britain versus France: How Many Sonderweg s?’, until now unavailable in an anglophone publication and reprinted in the present issue. This contribution is a useful reformulation of her arguments concerning radical historicity, the concept of ‘bourgeois revolution’, and the s…
Counter-Conduct in the University Factory
Deploying the Foucauldian concepts of “conduct” and “counter-conduct”, this article provides an analysis of “Occupy Sussex”—a two-month-long student occupation launched in opposition to the outsourcing of service staff at the University of Sussex. Situated in the context of a post-Fordist political economy, we argue that the British university constitutes an especial site of conduct formation—a University Factory—wherein individuals are sorted an…
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
Anxieties regarding colonial and neoliberal education have generated multiple calls for critical international pedagogies. Scholars of critical pedagogy have analyzed the pedagogies of the neoliberal project, whose ethos and economic imperatives aim to produce apolitical consumers and future citizens. Such calls, this article argues, articulate a concern about other-regardedness, critiquing the impact of neoliberalism on the cultivation of studen…
My Capitalism Is Bigger than Yours!’
This article reviews Alex Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (2015). It argues that the book offers a stimulating and ambitious approach to solving the problems of Eurocentrism and the origins of capitalism in growing critical scholarship in historical sociology and International Relations. However, by focusing on the ‘problem of the international’ and proposing a ‘single unified theo…
Counter-Conduct in the University Factory
Deploying the Foucauldian concepts of “conduct” and “counter-conduct”, this article provides an analysis of “Occupy Sussex”—a two-month-long student occupation launched in opposition to the outsourcing of service staff at the University of Sussex. Situated in the context of a post-Fordist political economy, we argue that the British university constitutes an especial site of conduct formation—a University Factory—wherein individuals are sorted an…
Introduction to ‘Britain versus France
In memoriam of the late Ellen Meiksins Wood, this piece firstly remembers the main achievements of her forty years of work. Secondly, it introduces one of her contributions, ‘Britain versus France: How Many Sonderweg s?’, until now unavailable in an anglophone publication and reprinted in the present issue. This contribution is a useful reformulation of her arguments concerning radical historicity, the concept of ‘bourgeois revolution’, and the s…
Counter-Conduct in the University Factory
Deploying the Foucauldian concepts of “conduct” and “counter-conduct”, this article provides an analysis of “Occupy Sussex”—a two-month-long student occupation launched in opposition to the outsourcing of service staff at the University of Sussex. Situated in the context of a post-Fordist political economy, we argue that the British university constitutes an especial site of conduct formation—a University Factory—wherein individuals are sorted an…
Toward Critical Pedagogies of the International? Student Resistance, Other-Regardedness, and Self-Formation in the Neoliberal University
Anxieties regarding colonial and neoliberal education have generated multiple calls for critical international pedagogies. Scholars of critical pedagogy have analyzed the pedagogies of the neoliberal project, whose ethos and economic imperatives aim to produce apolitical consumers and future citizens. Such calls, this article argues, articulate a concern about other-regardedness, critiquing the impact of neoliberalism on the cultivation of studen…
My Capitalism Is Bigger than Yours!’
This article reviews Alex Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (2015). It argues that the book offers a stimulating and ambitious approach to solving the problems of Eurocentrism and the origins of capitalism in growing critical scholarship in historical sociology and International Relations. However, by focusing on the ‘problem of the international’ and proposing a ‘single unified theo…
The Extraterritoriality of Law
Questions of legal extraterritoriality figure prominently in scholarship on legal pluralism, transnational legal studies, international investment law, international human rights law, state responsibility under international law, and a large number of other areas. Yet many accounts of extraterritoriality make little effort to grapple with its thorny conceptual history, shifting theoretical valence, and complex political roots and ramifications. T…
Extraterritoriality of Law
Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism
This introduction presents the symposium on Sam Knafo and Benno Teschke’s article in Historical Materialism , ‘Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique’ (2021). It briefly summarises the foundations of Political Marxism, discusses the broader implications of the debate raised by Knafo and Teschke for questions of collective knowledge-production and methods in Marxist historiography, and outlines the se…
Capital is Dead. Long Live Capital! A Political Marxist Analysis of Digital Capitalism and Infrastructure
There is a growing literature suggesting that the digital economy is taking us out of capitalism. While this manifests most notably as a diagnosis of ‘digital feudalism’ or ‘techno-feudalism’, a differing voice is McKenzie Wark, who suggests we have entered an entirely new mode of production altogether: ‘vectoralism’. This paper historicises and theorises our current conjuncture in relation to the potential multiplicity of modes of production, an…
Jurisdiction, Legal Form, and the Transition to Capitalism Debate
The increased interest in law and capitalism has not translated into an engagement in legal scholarship with the transition-to-capitalism debate. This article contributes a critique of commercialisation approaches to the history of capitalism and law from a Political Marxist perspective. It argues that combining jurisdiction and legal form provides a more flexible conceptual architecture to account for early-modern juridical practices. Conceptual…
Woven and warring cosmologies
Our article discusses the potential of the concept of ‘woven and warring cosmologies’ to better understand how various ways of making and ordering early modern politico-legal authority ‘hang together’. Through an exploration of literatures in history of international law (HIL) and Historical International Relations (HIR), which tend to remain legally anchored, focus on practices, or put forward ideational meta-concepts, we find that there is a ne…
Valuing transition/transitioning value
The article considers the origins of capitalism in order to scrutinise critiques of Open Marxism and Political Marxism, to bring these not-so-distant approaches more into dialogue and enhance the explanatory and critical capacity of both. First, we discuss the centrality of class relations to both Open Marxism and Political Marxism. Second, we show that Open Marxism has been criticised for its failure to provide a comprehensive account of the ori…
Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Capitalism (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Marxist philosophy (3 works)