Neil Vallelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 669185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Vallelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallelly |
| SIGNATURE | VALLELLY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4277-3090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Border-as-Flesh
This article theorizes the inability of state borders to implement the forms of separation they aim and claim to enact. To do so, it examines the geopolitical consequences of this failure by thinking the state border through a body of literature that critiques the notion of the body as a border between self and world. In particular, the article draws on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the “flesh” to examine how the state border “intertwin…
Futurism without a Future
An interview with the renowned Italian autonomist Marxist philosopher, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. The discussion charts Berardi’s entry into, and expulsion from, the Italian Communist Party in his teenage years and his introduction to the operaismo movement through Mario Tronti’s classic text Workers and Capital (1966). As one of the founders of the pirate station ‘Radio Alice’ and the avant-garde magazine A/traverso, Berardi was heavily involved in …
Constitutional Transformation in Chile
Camila Vergara, interviewed by Neil Vallelly
The Eclipse
‘It is the only democracy in the Middle East’—this is a standard refrain about Israel. Some stand by it; others refute it. Many argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been eroding democratic values in Israel over the last decade; others insist that so-called Israeli democracy is premised on the oppression and killing of Palestinians, which thus undermines the universalist principles of liberal democracy. While many disagree on Israel’s democratic cred…
Ending Neoliberalism
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new round of obituaries for neoliberalism, with some declaring that we have entered the stage of “postneoliberalism.” Rather than weighing in on the debates about whether neoliberalism has or has not ended, this article reflects on the theoretical framework in which neoliberalism's end has come to be posited. The article calls this framework “ending,” which allows the theorist to make “imaginative investments in…
Fictitious University
Issue 14 (2023) editorial by Neil Vallelly
Punching holes in history
This article introduces an exchange forum on Quinn Slobodian's Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). The book centres the 'zone' in a story about the fragmentation of global space, in which the zone works by 'punching holes in the territory of the nation-state, creating zones of exception with different laws and no democratic oversight'. Crack-Up Capitalism not only builds on the arguments made by…
Who cares for wellbeing? Corporate wellness, social reproduction and the essential worker
This paper seeks to contribute to the rethinking of wellbeing in organisation studies. First, it contributes to critiques of corporate wellness by drawing on social reproduction theory to show how the wellbeing of every individual worker is dependent on the efforts of many, often unacknowledged, others. Corporate wellness initiatives epitomise the dominant, neoliberal narrative of wellbeing in which individuals are posited as responsible for the …
Visible and invisible work in the pandemic
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COV…
Humans Rights Against Human Rights
Review of Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism. A new history of the parallel rise of neoliberalism and human rights
The border and the pandemic
From the Margins of the Neoliberal University
The Relationality of Disappearance
In this article I examine what happens to the “I” when the other disappears. I elucidate the relationship between ontic – relational ties to specific others – and ontological relationality – the fundamental relationality that facilitates the very existence of the “I.” The loss of an ontic relationality, I contend, ensures that the “I” can never be the same as it was prior to the loss. But the disappearance of an ontic relationality also accentuat…
Visible and invisible work in the pandemic
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COV…
From the Margins of the Neoliberal University
The Relationality of Disappearance
In this article I examine what happens to the “I” when the other disappears. I elucidate the relationship between ontic – relational ties to specific others – and ontological relationality – the fundamental relationality that facilitates the very existence of the “I.” The loss of an ontic relationality, I contend, ensures that the “I” can never be the same as it was prior to the loss. But the disappearance of an ontic relationality also accentuat…
The border and the pandemic
Humans Rights Against Human Rights
Review of Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism. A new history of the parallel rise of neoliberalism and human rights
Who cares for wellbeing? Corporate wellness, social reproduction and the essential worker
This paper seeks to contribute to the rethinking of wellbeing in organisation studies. First, it contributes to critiques of corporate wellness by drawing on social reproduction theory to show how the wellbeing of every individual worker is dependent on the efforts of many, often unacknowledged, others. Corporate wellness initiatives epitomise the dominant, neoliberal narrative of wellbeing in which individuals are posited as responsible for the …
Visible and invisible work in the pandemic
Feminist scholars and activists have long fought to make visible the fundamental but overlooked social reproduction work performed primarily by women, often in households. Taking on black feminist criticisms of the initial prioritization of the experience of white, middle-class women, these debates have developed into a broader social reproduction theory, which emphasizes the relationality of multiple forms of oppression under capitalism. The COV…
Futurism without a Future
An interview with the renowned Italian autonomist Marxist philosopher, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. The discussion charts Berardi’s entry into, and expulsion from, the Italian Communist Party in his teenage years and his introduction to the operaismo movement through Mario Tronti’s classic text Workers and Capital (1966). As one of the founders of the pirate station ‘Radio Alice’ and the avant-garde magazine A/traverso, Berardi was heavily involved in …
Constitutional Transformation in Chile
Camila Vergara, interviewed by Neil Vallelly
The Eclipse
‘It is the only democracy in the Middle East’—this is a standard refrain about Israel. Some stand by it; others refute it. Many argue that Benjamin Netanyahu has been eroding democratic values in Israel over the last decade; others insist that so-called Israeli democracy is premised on the oppression and killing of Palestinians, which thus undermines the universalist principles of liberal democracy. While many disagree on Israel’s democratic cred…
Ending Neoliberalism
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new round of obituaries for neoliberalism, with some declaring that we have entered the stage of “postneoliberalism.” Rather than weighing in on the debates about whether neoliberalism has or has not ended, this article reflects on the theoretical framework in which neoliberalism's end has come to be posited. The article calls this framework “ending,” which allows the theorist to make “imaginative investments in…
Fictitious University
Issue 14 (2023) editorial by Neil Vallelly
Punching holes in history
This article introduces an exchange forum on Quinn Slobodian's Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (2023). The book centres the 'zone' in a story about the fragmentation of global space, in which the zone works by 'punching holes in the territory of the nation-state, creating zones of exception with different laws and no democratic oversight'. Crack-Up Capitalism not only builds on the arguments made by…
Border-as-Flesh
This article theorizes the inability of state borders to implement the forms of separation they aim and claim to enact. To do so, it examines the geopolitical consequences of this failure by thinking the state border through a body of literature that critiques the notion of the body as a border between self and world. In particular, the article draws on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the “flesh” to examine how the state border “intertwin…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)