Paul Apostolidis
Biographic Data
| ID | 645480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Apostolidis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Apostolidis |
| SIGNATURE | APOSTOLIDIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4798-6068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Matchmakers: Placement agencies and digital platforms in the UK childcare market
Households seeking childcare often turn to labour market intermediaries such as placement agencies and digital platforms to facilitate their search. This article draws on a qualitative research project to examine the respective roles played by agencies and platforms, comparing the structural power dynamics they engender between workers, clients, and intermediaries. First, it argues that digital platforms stand in an ambiguous position in relation…
New materialism and the politics of climate action: A critical dialogue
Transnational Cosmopolitanism and Political Theory’s Methods
The ends of radical critique? Crisis, capitalism, emancipation: A conversation
In a discussion of Albena Azmanova’s book Capitalism on Edge (Columbia University Press, 2020), Amy Allen, Paul Apostolidis, Lea Ypi and Albena Azmanova debate key issues critical social theory confronts today. How should critical theorists re-engage with the critique of capitalism without entrapment in old ideological certainties? They revisit the classical debates about transformative agency, direction and methods of change, and the place of no…
Night labour, social reproduction and political struggle in the ‘Working Day’ chapter of Marx's Capital
This essay offers a new reading of Marx's chapter on ‘the working day’ in Capital Volume One by exploring the textual theme of night-time work. Even as Marx emphasises how the lengthening workday enables the super-exploitation of producers’ wage labour, his depictions of nocturnal experiences highlight more forcefully the destruction of workers’ reproductive resources, capacities and relationships. Night comes to represent the contracted time, co…
Neither work nor leisure: Motivations of microworkers in the United Kingdom on three digital platforms
This article examines the experience of microworkers living in the United Kingdom. Based on a survey of 1189 microworkers and 17 in-depth interviews, the article explores the experiences of UK-based microworkers on three digital platforms: Prolific, Clickworker and Amazon Mechanical Turk. The article draws on the theoretical framework of self-determination theory to analyse workers’ motivations for performing microwork. It reveals that workers’ r…
Desperate Responsibility: Precarity and Right-Wing Populism
This essay explores the mutual reinforcements between socioeconomic precarity and right-wing populism, and then envisions a politics that contests Trumpism through workers’ organizations that create alternatives to predominant patterns of subject formation through work. I first revisit my recent critique of precarity, which initiates a new method of critical theory informed by Paulo Freire’s political pedagogy of popular education. Reading migran…
The politics of precarity
A Conversation about Work, Precarity and Political Possibilities During Covid-19
Response to Sandro Mezzandra and Brett Neilson’s review of The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
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The Fight For Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
In today’s precarious world, working people’s experiences are becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen. This book unfolds a critique of the precarity phenomenon by setting Latino day laborers’ commentaries in dialogue with critical social theory. The Fight for Time shows how migrant labor on society’s jagged edges relates to encompassing syndromes of precarity as both exception and synecdoche. Subjected to especially harsh treatment …
The Fight For Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
Day Laborers and the Refusal of Work
This essay reflects on the ways migrant day laborers advance a politics oriented toward the refusal of work. It identifies both impediments and tendencies conducive to such a politics by examining Latino migrant day laborers’ commentaries on their work searches on street corners as well as their efforts to organize communities through worker centers in US cities. Adapting an approach from popular education, the essay argues that day laborers are …
Sex scandals, reputational management, and masculinity under neoliberal conditions
This article presents political sex scandals as a critical site for understanding contemporary formations of masculinity under conditions of neoliberalism. While media coverage of sex scandals typically revolves around a spectacularized failure of a particular man to live up to an idealized image of masculinity, we contend that sex scandals represent momentary ruptures that lay bare historically specific contradictions of neoliberal masculine sub…
Migrant day laborers, the violence of work, and the politics of time
This chapter examines discourses about common but differentiated responsibilities related to environmental equity and capacity as instantiations of temporality in international politics. Internalization is a process crucial to becoming a legitimate interlocutor in a given community and a source of contestation of that community&s;s working narratives. This might suggest that the temporal discourse of development is a tactical tool and is never in…
Cosmopolitan politics and the migrant day labor movement
This essay explores the mobilization of the migrant day laborers' movement in search of lessons to inform a critical theory of cosmopolitan politics. In the course of the movement's rise to national prominence in US immigrant politics, have day labor groups also developed forms of political consciousness and action that move beyond the narrow limits inscribed by the system of sovereign nation-states? How might considering the circumstances of day…
The eyes of the people: Democracy in an age of spectatorship, by Jeffrey Edward Green
Response to Kathleen Arnold, Review of Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy
Response to Kathleen Arnold, Review of Breaks in the Chain:What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy Paul Apostolidis (bio) Kathleen Arnold offers generous praise for many aspects of my book, Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy, in her recent review in Theory & Event and I am delighted about that as any author would be. She commends my book for addressing the politics of theory and taking a…
Sex scandals, racial domination and the systemic correlation of power-modalities in Foucault
This essay explores relations between discourses of sexuality and race in US society today through an analysis of recent sex scandals, in a manner informed by Foucault and provoking further critical development of his theory. Sex scandal narratives demonstrate how sovereignty, discipline, and biopolitics currently combine to form a systemic correlation of power-technologies. This power matrix, in turn, enables strategies of racial domination thro…
Physionomie sociale ou industrie culturelle: Adorno et la critique de la radio chrétienne
Une rétrospective critique du texte de Theodor W. Adorno "The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses" apporte un nouvel éclairage sur une tension souvent sous-estimée de sa pensée concernant la capacité de la culture de masse à exprimer de la résistance face à la domination. En approchant les débuts de la radio chrétienne de droite de façon cohérente avec sa défense de la dimension autonome de la culture, Adorno va au-de…
Feminist Theory, Immigrant Workers’ Stories, and Counterhegemony in the United States Today
[Extract] The Day without Immigrants and other marches and rallies in the spring of 2006 massively disrupted ordinary business in schools and offices across the country. Event organizers, among whom union officers and staff took the lead, had wagered that a general strike of immigrants and their sympathizers would shock the population at large into feeling the extent to which social institutions in the United States rely on immigrants in order to…
Politics and Connolly’s Ethics: Immigrant Narratives, Racism, and Identity’s Contingency
Hegemony and Hamburger: Migration Narratives and Democratic Unionism among Mexican Meatpackers in the U.S. West
This essay considers how the narrated experiences of immigrant workers in the United States could help promote organized labor’s participation in a transnational movement to democratize globalization processes. I draw on interviews with immigrant meatpackers working for the Tyson Corporation, who since the late 1990s have mounted an impressive and unusual effort to democratize their workplace and union as well as to improve worker safety and dign…
Why Monica Still Matters
Homosexuality and “Compassionate” Conservatism in the Discourse of the Post‐Reaganite Right
Hegemony and Hamburger: Migration Narratives and Democratic Unionism among Mexican Meatpackers in the U.S. West
This essay considers how the narrated experiences of immigrant workers in the United States could help promote organized labor’s participation in a transnational movement to democratize globalization processes. I draw on interviews with immigrant meatpackers working for the Tyson Corporation, who since the late 1990s have mounted an impressive and unusual effort to democratize their workplace and union as well as to improve worker safety and dign…
Desperate Responsibility: Precarity and Right-Wing Populism
This essay explores the mutual reinforcements between socioeconomic precarity and right-wing populism, and then envisions a politics that contests Trumpism through workers’ organizations that create alternatives to predominant patterns of subject formation through work. I first revisit my recent critique of precarity, which initiates a new method of critical theory informed by Paulo Freire’s political pedagogy of popular education. Reading migran…
Neither work nor leisure: Motivations of microworkers in the United Kingdom on three digital platforms
This article examines the experience of microworkers living in the United Kingdom. Based on a survey of 1189 microworkers and 17 in-depth interviews, the article explores the experiences of UK-based microworkers on three digital platforms: Prolific, Clickworker and Amazon Mechanical Turk. The article draws on the theoretical framework of self-determination theory to analyse workers’ motivations for performing microwork. It reveals that workers’ r…
The politics of precarity
Cosmopolitan politics and the migrant day labor movement
This essay explores the mobilization of the migrant day laborers' movement in search of lessons to inform a critical theory of cosmopolitan politics. In the course of the movement's rise to national prominence in US immigrant politics, have day labor groups also developed forms of political consciousness and action that move beyond the narrow limits inscribed by the system of sovereign nation-states? How might considering the circumstances of day…
Sex scandals, racial domination and the systemic correlation of power-modalities in Foucault
This essay explores relations between discourses of sexuality and race in US society today through an analysis of recent sex scandals, in a manner informed by Foucault and provoking further critical development of his theory. Sex scandal narratives demonstrate how sovereignty, discipline, and biopolitics currently combine to form a systemic correlation of power-technologies. This power matrix, in turn, enables strategies of racial domination thro…
Homosexuality and “Compassionate” Conservatism in the Discourse of the Post‐Reaganite Right
Physionomie sociale ou industrie culturelle: Adorno et la critique de la radio chrétienne
Une rétrospective critique du texte de Theodor W. Adorno "The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses" apporte un nouvel éclairage sur une tension souvent sous-estimée de sa pensée concernant la capacité de la culture de masse à exprimer de la résistance face à la domination. En approchant les débuts de la radio chrétienne de droite de façon cohérente avec sa défense de la dimension autonome de la culture, Adorno va au-de…
Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio
Culture industry or social physiognomy: Adorno's critique of Christian right radio
A critical retrospective of 'The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses' sheds new light on an often underplayed tension in Adorno's thought concerning the capacity of mass culture to express resistance against domination. In 'Thomas' Adorno moved beyond denouncing mass culture as 'culture industry' by approach ing early Christian right radio in a manner consistent (initially) with his defense of the autonomous dimension…
Homosexuality and “Compassionate” Conservatism in the Discourse of the Post‐Reaganite Right
Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio
Why Monica Still Matters
Hegemony and Hamburger: Migration Narratives and Democratic Unionism among Mexican Meatpackers in the U.S. West
This essay considers how the narrated experiences of immigrant workers in the United States could help promote organized labor’s participation in a transnational movement to democratize globalization processes. I draw on interviews with immigrant meatpackers working for the Tyson Corporation, who since the late 1990s have mounted an impressive and unusual effort to democratize their workplace and union as well as to improve worker safety and dign…
Feminist Theory, Immigrant Workers’ Stories, and Counterhegemony in the United States Today
[Extract] The Day without Immigrants and other marches and rallies in the spring of 2006 massively disrupted ordinary business in schools and offices across the country. Event organizers, among whom union officers and staff took the lead, had wagered that a general strike of immigrants and their sympathizers would shock the population at large into feeling the extent to which social institutions in the United States rely on immigrants in order to…
Politics and Connolly’s Ethics: Immigrant Narratives, Racism, and Identity’s Contingency
Response to Kathleen Arnold, Review of Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy
Response to Kathleen Arnold, Review of Breaks in the Chain:What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy Paul Apostolidis (bio) Kathleen Arnold offers generous praise for many aspects of my book, Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy, in her recent review in Theory & Event and I am delighted about that as any author would be. She commends my book for addressing the politics of theory and taking a…
Sex scandals, racial domination and the systemic correlation of power-modalities in Foucault
This essay explores relations between discourses of sexuality and race in US society today through an analysis of recent sex scandals, in a manner informed by Foucault and provoking further critical development of his theory. Sex scandal narratives demonstrate how sovereignty, discipline, and biopolitics currently combine to form a systemic correlation of power-technologies. This power matrix, in turn, enables strategies of racial domination thro…
Physionomie sociale ou industrie culturelle: Adorno et la critique de la radio chrétienne
Une rétrospective critique du texte de Theodor W. Adorno "The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas' Radio Addresses" apporte un nouvel éclairage sur une tension souvent sous-estimée de sa pensée concernant la capacité de la culture de masse à exprimer de la résistance face à la domination. En approchant les débuts de la radio chrétienne de droite de façon cohérente avec sa défense de la dimension autonome de la culture, Adorno va au-de…
The eyes of the people: Democracy in an age of spectatorship, by Jeffrey Edward Green
Cosmopolitan politics and the migrant day labor movement
This essay explores the mobilization of the migrant day laborers' movement in search of lessons to inform a critical theory of cosmopolitan politics. In the course of the movement's rise to national prominence in US immigrant politics, have day labor groups also developed forms of political consciousness and action that move beyond the narrow limits inscribed by the system of sovereign nation-states? How might considering the circumstances of day…
Migrant day laborers, the violence of work, and the politics of time
This chapter examines discourses about common but differentiated responsibilities related to environmental equity and capacity as instantiations of temporality in international politics. Internalization is a process crucial to becoming a legitimate interlocutor in a given community and a source of contestation of that community&s;s working narratives. This might suggest that the temporal discourse of development is a tactical tool and is never in…
Sex scandals, reputational management, and masculinity under neoliberal conditions
This article presents political sex scandals as a critical site for understanding contemporary formations of masculinity under conditions of neoliberalism. While media coverage of sex scandals typically revolves around a spectacularized failure of a particular man to live up to an idealized image of masculinity, we contend that sex scandals represent momentary ruptures that lay bare historically specific contradictions of neoliberal masculine sub…
The Fight For Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
Day Laborers and the Refusal of Work
This essay reflects on the ways migrant day laborers advance a politics oriented toward the refusal of work. It identifies both impediments and tendencies conducive to such a politics by examining Latino migrant day laborers’ commentaries on their work searches on street corners as well as their efforts to organize communities through worker centers in US cities. Adapting an approach from popular education, the essay argues that day laborers are …
The Fight For Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
In today’s precarious world, working people’s experiences are becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen. This book unfolds a critique of the precarity phenomenon by setting Latino day laborers’ commentaries in dialogue with critical social theory. The Fight for Time shows how migrant labor on society’s jagged edges relates to encompassing syndromes of precarity as both exception and synecdoche. Subjected to especially harsh treatment …
A Conversation about Work, Precarity and Political Possibilities During Covid-19
Response to Sandro Mezzandra and Brett Neilson’s review of The Fight for Time: Migrant Day Laborers and the Politics of Precarity
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Desperate Responsibility: Precarity and Right-Wing Populism
This essay explores the mutual reinforcements between socioeconomic precarity and right-wing populism, and then envisions a politics that contests Trumpism through workers’ organizations that create alternatives to predominant patterns of subject formation through work. I first revisit my recent critique of precarity, which initiates a new method of critical theory informed by Paulo Freire’s political pedagogy of popular education. Reading migran…
The politics of precarity
The ends of radical critique? Crisis, capitalism, emancipation: A conversation
In a discussion of Albena Azmanova’s book Capitalism on Edge (Columbia University Press, 2020), Amy Allen, Paul Apostolidis, Lea Ypi and Albena Azmanova debate key issues critical social theory confronts today. How should critical theorists re-engage with the critique of capitalism without entrapment in old ideological certainties? They revisit the classical debates about transformative agency, direction and methods of change, and the place of no…
Night labour, social reproduction and political struggle in the ‘Working Day’ chapter of Marx's Capital
This essay offers a new reading of Marx's chapter on ‘the working day’ in Capital Volume One by exploring the textual theme of night-time work. Even as Marx emphasises how the lengthening workday enables the super-exploitation of producers’ wage labour, his depictions of nocturnal experiences highlight more forcefully the destruction of workers’ reproductive resources, capacities and relationships. Night comes to represent the contracted time, co…
Neither work nor leisure: Motivations of microworkers in the United Kingdom on three digital platforms
This article examines the experience of microworkers living in the United Kingdom. Based on a survey of 1189 microworkers and 17 in-depth interviews, the article explores the experiences of UK-based microworkers on three digital platforms: Prolific, Clickworker and Amazon Mechanical Turk. The article draws on the theoretical framework of self-determination theory to analyse workers’ motivations for performing microwork. It reveals that workers’ r…
Transnational Cosmopolitanism and Political Theory’s Methods
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (20 works) · Law (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political economy (9 works)