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Kevin Anderson

Bio: Kevin Anderson is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Marxist philosophy & Nationalism. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 193 citations.

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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In "Marx at the Margins, " as mentioned in this paper, a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light.
Abstract: In "Marx at the Margins, " Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx s writings, including journalistic work written for the "New York Tribune, " Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Through highly informed readings of work ranging from Marx s unpublished 1879 82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond. For this expanded edition, Anderson has written a new preface that discusses the additional 1879 82 notebook material, as well as the influence of the Russian-American philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya on his thinking."

193 citations


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TL;DR: This paper revisited the idea of relational comparison that grew out of my earlier research in post-apartheid South Africa in order to put it to work in new ways, and argued that relational comparison can be extended to include conjunctural analysis.
Abstract: This article revisits the idea of relational comparison that grew out of my earlier research in post-apartheid South Africa in order to put it to work in new ways. First I clarify distinctively different modalities of ‘comparison’ and their political stakes, and go on to specify how the ‘relational’ in relational comparison refers to an open, non-teleological conception of dialectics at the core of Marx’s method. I then engage with sharply polarized urban studies and subaltern studies debates cast in terms of Marxism vs. postcolonialism/poststructuralism and suggest how distinctions among comparative modalities help to reconfigure the terms of the debates. The article lays the groundwork for a larger project that focuses on understanding resurgent nationalisms, populisms, and racisms in different regions of the world in relation to one another in the era of neoliberal forms of capitalism. More broadly I suggest how relational comparison, extended to include conjunctural analysis, can be used as a method f...

187 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method for using social sciences and humanities research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Research Council of Norway (RCN), Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and World Agroforestry Centre (WAC).
Abstract: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ; Research Council of Norway ; Nordic Africa Institute ; World Agroforestry Centre

103 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that homogeneity is not an intrinsic quality of the concept of the universal, but a result of its specifically internalist mode of construction Supplanting Eurocentrism therefore requires an explicit theoretical incorporation of universal But one which is fundamentally rethought away from being an immanent self-transcendence of the particular, and re- comprehended as a radical amenability to, and constitutiveness of, alterity.
Abstract: his article investigates the limits of postcolonial International Relations’ anti- Eurocentrism through an interrogation of its ambivalent relation with the category of ‘the universal’ It argues that a decisive defeat of Eurocentrism, within and beyond International Relations, requires the formulation of a non-ethnocentric international social theory which postcolonial approaches, a la poststructuralism, reject on the grounds that it involves the idea of the universal equated with socio-cultural homogeneity Yet, postcolonial approaches also theorize colonial modernity through deploying forms of methodological internationalism that broach the universal Through a critical engagement with the wider field of postcolonial theory, and an anatomy of the notion of the universal in Hegel and Trotsky, this article argues that homogeneity is not an intrinsic quality of the concept of the universal, but a result of its specifically internalist mode of construction Supplanting Eurocentrism therefore requires an explicit theoretical incorporation of the universal But one which is fundamentally rethought away from being an immanent self-transcendence of the particular, and re- comprehended as a radical amenability to, and constitutiveness of, alterity This is, the article argues, a defining feature of Trotsky’s idea of uneven and combined development

99 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argue that claims of racial progress rest upon untenable teleological assumptions founded in Enlightenment discourse, and examine the theoretical and methodological focus on progress and its histogram of progress and racism.
Abstract: We argue that claims of racial progress rest upon untenable teleological assumptions founded in Enlightenment discourse. We examine the theoretical and methodological focus on progress and its hist...

90 citations

Book
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the Decline of feudalism, the Industrial Revolution, and the rise of modern capitalism are discussed, with a focus on the role of women in the process.
Abstract: Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: problems and methods 1. The Decline of feudalism 2. Experiments in capitalism: Italy, Germany, France 3. English capitalism 4. Bourgeois revolution 5. Political capitalism 6. The Industrial Revolution: Marxist perspectives 7. Capitalism and world history Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

77 citations