Chris Hesketh
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589439 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Hesketh |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Hesketh |
| ASSINATURA | HESKETH C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1104-9582 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Totality must be defended
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life. By contrast, this article makes an intervention in economic geography debates by refuting this analysis as largely misguided. The article makes the ca…
Finding space in the modes of production debate
This article is inspired by several recent scholarly developments. First, there has been renewed interest in debates surrounding the concept ‘mode of production’. Second, there has been a passionate debate about how we understand core–periphery relations in relation to the broader question of capitalist development. Finally, it has been argued that, beyond opposition to neoliberal development, there has also been a revival of Marxist theoretical …
Towards a new dialectics of dependency
Dependency theory is arguably the most important theoretical tradition to emerge from Latin America. Functioning as a vital source of counter-representation and contestation, it challenged the prevailing developmental orthodoxies of the time. During its heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s it served simultaneously to critique prevailing power relations within the global political economy and as a political programme for domestic and regional trans…
What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia
The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as Bolivia and Ecuador have rewritten their constitutions to acknowledge the diverse populations that make up the different ‘nations’ within their state. The notion of a plurinational state carries with it the potential to offer a set of counter-topograp…
Indigenous environmentalism
This article investigates how well E. F. Schumacher's ideas travel beyond his own time and place. To do so, I contrast the environmental critique offered by Schumacher in Small is Beautiful with contemporary forms of everyday environmentalism provided by Indigenous communities in Latin America that form part of a response to processes of ongoing territorial dispossession. In exploring how well Schumacher's ideas travel to Latin America, I argue t…
Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation
Latin America has long been subjected to colonial development that has negated Indigenous territory. In the present conjuncture, the region is home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. These conflicts are intrinsically connected to the wider model of neo-extractivist development that has been embraced throughout the continent since the early 2000s. Indigenous communities have frequently been the victims of this model of …
Clean development or the development of dispossession? The political economy of wind parks in Southern Mexico
Through an investigation of the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, I explore the contested meaning of environmental justice. I contend that, despite their seemingly benign image, wind parks in Oaxaca operate within a spatially abstracted, colonial epistemology of capital-centred development. This involves a remaking of space and an appropriation of nature on behalf of capital. Concomitantly, it also involves a …
The production of leisure
In this article, we utilize the social theories of Antonio Gramsci and Henri Lefebvre to explore the role that leisure activities such as football play within contemporary China in relation to issues of class. We argue that the recent promotion of football in China can be viewed as a continuation of broader top-down processes of ‘modernization from above' that serves as a microcosm of the wider class contradictions inherent in Chinese approaches …
Between Pachakuti and Passive Revolution
From the period 2000 to 2005, Bolivia experienced a profound political convulsion as social movements rose-up to contest the neoliberal model of development. This was most markedly inspired by contestation over the control of natural resources, namely water and gas. The period of mobilisation brought down two successive governments and propelled the MAS, led by Evo Morales, to power in 2006. This period also helped to revalorise indigenous cultur…
A Gramscian Conjuncture in Latin America? Reflections on Violence, Hegemony, and Geographical Difference
This article addresses whether the concepts of Antonio Gramsci still “travel” to Latin America. During the 20 th century, Gramsci was one of the most important social theorists invoked to understand forms of social order in Latin America, as well as providing resources to reflect upon subaltern culture, resistance and the construction of alternatives. However, over the past two decades there have been several theoretical and practical challenges …
Lost in space? Putting the transnational state in its place
This article explores the notion of a transnational state (TNS) as advanced by scholars working within Historical Materialism. In recent decades, Historical Materialist approaches to the Social Sciences have enjoyed a major intellectual renaissance. Fittingly, the reasons for this renaissance can be found in some major developments within contemporary capitalism. The first of these developments can be located in a renewed interest in the topic of…
Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance
Passive revolution
In this article, I argue that Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution makes a foundational contribution to International Relations (IR), yet has been relatively under appreciated by the broader discipline. Within the Historical Sociology of International Relations, uneven and combined development has recently been postulated as a key trans-historical law that provides a social theory of the ‘international’. Drawing from, but moving beyond…
The survival of non-capitalism
This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin America has been a contentious one. Whilst many radical analyses have focused on the dynamics of capitalism in relation to the geography of development, explaining how it has been able to survive and grow, this article makes the case for a more multi-lin…
Producing State Space in Chiapas
This article examines processes of state formation in Chiapas, Mexico, from the time of the Revolution (1910-17) to the present. The purpose of the article is threefold. First it demonstrates how differing modes of production attempt to alter the production of space, yet at the same time, how pre-capitalist spaces and social relations, as well as movements of resistance, both alter the topography of capitalism as it unfolds. Second it explores 'e…
Neoliberalism Interrupted
Spaces of Uneven Development and Class Struggle in Bolivia
This article engages with the politics of class struggle and state formation in modern Bolivia. It examines how current forms of political contestation are shaped by the legacy of the Revolution of 1952 and the subsequent path of development. In so doing, we therefore explore spaces of uneven and combined development in relation to ongoing transformations in Bolivia linked to emergent class strategies of passive revolution, meaning processes of h…
The Clash of Spatializations
In southern Mexico today there is a clash between two spatial projects that are increasingly inimical to one another. On the one hand, capital is seeking to expand and transform the region into a new pole of accumulation. On the other hand, indigenous communities are vigorously struggling against the dispossession that this would entail and defending their claims to territory, often through the conscious creation of "counter-spaces." In doing so,…
From passive revolution to silent revolution
This article draws on Antonio Gramsci's key concepts of passive revolution and hegemony to explore how specific scalar and spatial configurations have been historically produced in Mexico, within the conditions of worldwide capitalist development. It argues that passive revolution-understood as the state-led reorganisation of social relations that seeks to maintain or restore class domination-can be seen as a recurring theme of Mexican history in…
Spaces of Uneven Development and Class Struggle in Bolivia
This article engages with the politics of class struggle and state formation in modern Bolivia. It examines how current forms of political contestation are shaped by the legacy of the Revolution of 1952 and the subsequent path of development. In so doing, we therefore explore spaces of uneven and combined development in relation to ongoing transformations in Bolivia linked to emergent class strategies of passive revolution, meaning processes of h…
From passive revolution to silent revolution
This article draws on Antonio Gramsci's key concepts of passive revolution and hegemony to explore how specific scalar and spatial configurations have been historically produced in Mexico, within the conditions of worldwide capitalist development. It argues that passive revolution-understood as the state-led reorganisation of social relations that seeks to maintain or restore class domination-can be seen as a recurring theme of Mexican history in…
Passive revolution
In this article, I argue that Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution makes a foundational contribution to International Relations (IR), yet has been relatively under appreciated by the broader discipline. Within the Historical Sociology of International Relations, uneven and combined development has recently been postulated as a key trans-historical law that provides a social theory of the ‘international’. Drawing from, but moving beyond…
Clean development or the development of dispossession? The political economy of wind parks in Southern Mexico
Through an investigation of the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, I explore the contested meaning of environmental justice. I contend that, despite their seemingly benign image, wind parks in Oaxaca operate within a spatially abstracted, colonial epistemology of capital-centred development. This involves a remaking of space and an appropriation of nature on behalf of capital. Concomitantly, it also involves a …
The survival of non-capitalism
This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin America has been a contentious one. Whilst many radical analyses have focused on the dynamics of capitalism in relation to the geography of development, explaining how it has been able to survive and grow, this article makes the case for a more multi-lin…
The Clash of Spatializations
In southern Mexico today there is a clash between two spatial projects that are increasingly inimical to one another. On the one hand, capital is seeking to expand and transform the region into a new pole of accumulation. On the other hand, indigenous communities are vigorously struggling against the dispossession that this would entail and defending their claims to territory, often through the conscious creation of "counter-spaces." In doing so,…
Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation
Latin America has long been subjected to colonial development that has negated Indigenous territory. In the present conjuncture, the region is home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. These conflicts are intrinsically connected to the wider model of neo-extractivist development that has been embraced throughout the continent since the early 2000s. Indigenous communities have frequently been the victims of this model of …
A Gramscian Conjuncture in Latin America? Reflections on Violence, Hegemony, and Geographical Difference
This article addresses whether the concepts of Antonio Gramsci still “travel” to Latin America. During the 20 th century, Gramsci was one of the most important social theorists invoked to understand forms of social order in Latin America, as well as providing resources to reflect upon subaltern culture, resistance and the construction of alternatives. However, over the past two decades there have been several theoretical and practical challenges …
Producing State Space in Chiapas
This article examines processes of state formation in Chiapas, Mexico, from the time of the Revolution (1910-17) to the present. The purpose of the article is threefold. First it demonstrates how differing modes of production attempt to alter the production of space, yet at the same time, how pre-capitalist spaces and social relations, as well as movements of resistance, both alter the topography of capitalism as it unfolds. Second it explores 'e…
Between Pachakuti and Passive Revolution
From the period 2000 to 2005, Bolivia experienced a profound political convulsion as social movements rose-up to contest the neoliberal model of development. This was most markedly inspired by contestation over the control of natural resources, namely water and gas. The period of mobilisation brought down two successive governments and propelled the MAS, led by Evo Morales, to power in 2006. This period also helped to revalorise indigenous cultur…
The production of leisure
In this article, we utilize the social theories of Antonio Gramsci and Henri Lefebvre to explore the role that leisure activities such as football play within contemporary China in relation to issues of class. We argue that the recent promotion of football in China can be viewed as a continuation of broader top-down processes of ‘modernization from above' that serves as a microcosm of the wider class contradictions inherent in Chinese approaches …
From passive revolution to silent revolution
This article draws on Antonio Gramsci's key concepts of passive revolution and hegemony to explore how specific scalar and spatial configurations have been historically produced in Mexico, within the conditions of worldwide capitalist development. It argues that passive revolution-understood as the state-led reorganisation of social relations that seeks to maintain or restore class domination-can be seen as a recurring theme of Mexican history in…
The Clash of Spatializations
In southern Mexico today there is a clash between two spatial projects that are increasingly inimical to one another. On the one hand, capital is seeking to expand and transform the region into a new pole of accumulation. On the other hand, indigenous communities are vigorously struggling against the dispossession that this would entail and defending their claims to territory, often through the conscious creation of "counter-spaces." In doing so,…
Spaces of Uneven Development and Class Struggle in Bolivia
This article engages with the politics of class struggle and state formation in modern Bolivia. It examines how current forms of political contestation are shaped by the legacy of the Revolution of 1952 and the subsequent path of development. In so doing, we therefore explore spaces of uneven and combined development in relation to ongoing transformations in Bolivia linked to emergent class strategies of passive revolution, meaning processes of h…
Neoliberalism Interrupted
The survival of non-capitalism
This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin America has been a contentious one. Whilst many radical analyses have focused on the dynamics of capitalism in relation to the geography of development, explaining how it has been able to survive and grow, this article makes the case for a more multi-lin…
Producing State Space in Chiapas
This article examines processes of state formation in Chiapas, Mexico, from the time of the Revolution (1910-17) to the present. The purpose of the article is threefold. First it demonstrates how differing modes of production attempt to alter the production of space, yet at the same time, how pre-capitalist spaces and social relations, as well as movements of resistance, both alter the topography of capitalism as it unfolds. Second it explores 'e…
Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance
Passive revolution
In this article, I argue that Antonio Gramsci’s concept of passive revolution makes a foundational contribution to International Relations (IR), yet has been relatively under appreciated by the broader discipline. Within the Historical Sociology of International Relations, uneven and combined development has recently been postulated as a key trans-historical law that provides a social theory of the ‘international’. Drawing from, but moving beyond…
Lost in space? Putting the transnational state in its place
This article explores the notion of a transnational state (TNS) as advanced by scholars working within Historical Materialism. In recent decades, Historical Materialist approaches to the Social Sciences have enjoyed a major intellectual renaissance. Fittingly, the reasons for this renaissance can be found in some major developments within contemporary capitalism. The first of these developments can be located in a renewed interest in the topic of…
A Gramscian Conjuncture in Latin America? Reflections on Violence, Hegemony, and Geographical Difference
This article addresses whether the concepts of Antonio Gramsci still “travel” to Latin America. During the 20 th century, Gramsci was one of the most important social theorists invoked to understand forms of social order in Latin America, as well as providing resources to reflect upon subaltern culture, resistance and the construction of alternatives. However, over the past two decades there have been several theoretical and practical challenges …
The production of leisure
In this article, we utilize the social theories of Antonio Gramsci and Henri Lefebvre to explore the role that leisure activities such as football play within contemporary China in relation to issues of class. We argue that the recent promotion of football in China can be viewed as a continuation of broader top-down processes of ‘modernization from above' that serves as a microcosm of the wider class contradictions inherent in Chinese approaches …
Between Pachakuti and Passive Revolution
From the period 2000 to 2005, Bolivia experienced a profound political convulsion as social movements rose-up to contest the neoliberal model of development. This was most markedly inspired by contestation over the control of natural resources, namely water and gas. The period of mobilisation brought down two successive governments and propelled the MAS, led by Evo Morales, to power in 2006. This period also helped to revalorise indigenous cultur…
Clean development or the development of dispossession? The political economy of wind parks in Southern Mexico
Through an investigation of the political economy of wind park development in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, I explore the contested meaning of environmental justice. I contend that, despite their seemingly benign image, wind parks in Oaxaca operate within a spatially abstracted, colonial epistemology of capital-centred development. This involves a remaking of space and an appropriation of nature on behalf of capital. Concomitantly, it also involves a …
Indigenous resistance at the frontiers of accumulation
Latin America has long been subjected to colonial development that has negated Indigenous territory. In the present conjuncture, the region is home to the largest volume of environmental conflicts in the world. These conflicts are intrinsically connected to the wider model of neo-extractivist development that has been embraced throughout the continent since the early 2000s. Indigenous communities have frequently been the victims of this model of …
Indigenous environmentalism
This article investigates how well E. F. Schumacher's ideas travel beyond his own time and place. To do so, I contrast the environmental critique offered by Schumacher in Small is Beautiful with contemporary forms of everyday environmentalism provided by Indigenous communities in Latin America that form part of a response to processes of ongoing territorial dispossession. In exploring how well Schumacher's ideas travel to Latin America, I argue t…
Finding space in the modes of production debate
This article is inspired by several recent scholarly developments. First, there has been renewed interest in debates surrounding the concept ‘mode of production’. Second, there has been a passionate debate about how we understand core–periphery relations in relation to the broader question of capitalist development. Finally, it has been argued that, beyond opposition to neoliberal development, there has also been a revival of Marxist theoretical …
Towards a new dialectics of dependency
Dependency theory is arguably the most important theoretical tradition to emerge from Latin America. Functioning as a vital source of counter-representation and contestation, it challenged the prevailing developmental orthodoxies of the time. During its heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s it served simultaneously to critique prevailing power relations within the global political economy and as a political programme for domestic and regional trans…
What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? The case of Bolivia
The idea of a plurinational state is one that has gained currency in parts of Latin America in recent decades. Driven by the demands of Indigenous social movements and communities, countries such as Bolivia and Ecuador have rewritten their constitutions to acknowledge the diverse populations that make up the different ‘nations’ within their state. The notion of a plurinational state carries with it the potential to offer a set of counter-topograp…
Totality must be defended
Across multiple theoretical traditions that treat economies as geographically differentiated, the notion of totality has come under attack from those who dismiss it as an authoritarian concept, a Eurocentric idea, or insist that it cannot grasp the inherently pluriversal character of everyday life. By contrast, this article makes an intervention in economic geography debates by refuting this analysis as largely misguided. The article makes the ca…
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