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Interview with Professor Alex Callinicos
No full textInterview with Professor Alex Callinicos by John Clements, recorded in London, England.
Professor Alex Callinicos talks about the centenary of Karl Marx's death. Alex discusses the history of socialism, Marx's impact on this movement and how Marx's work can be applied a century later. He identifies one of Marx's enduring traits of not merely criticising capitalism, but identifying how socialist ideals can be used in practice.
This sound recording is part of the John Clements Oral History Collection
Professor Alex Callinicos
No full textProfessor Alex Callinicos is a renowned social theorist and scholar of international political economy. He conducts research on Marx and Marxism, European social and political theory, contemporary political philosophy, critical theory, historiography, and international political economy. His work provides invaluable insights on issues of race and racism, social justice, the Third Way, imperialism, austerity, and EU politics, among many other fascinating contemporary issues. Alex studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics before writing a DPhil on Marx's Capital, also at Balliol. He was a Junior Research Fellow in Contemporary Social Thought at St Peter's College, Oxford from 1979 to 1981, after which he taught social and political theory at the Department of Politics at the University of York until 2005, when he moved to King's College London. Alex is currently the Professor of European Studies at King's and editor of International Socialism. Alex has been an active contributor to the development of the movement for another globalization, participating in the World Social Forum and an animator of the European Social Forum. Among his best known books are The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983), Against Postmodernism (1990), Social Theory (1999), An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003), The Resources of Critique (2006), Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009). His most recent book is entitled Deciphering Capital: Marx’s Capital and its Destiny (2014)
Professor Alex Callinicos
No full textProfessor Alex Callinicos is a renowned social theorist and scholar of international political economy. He conducts research on Marx and Marxism, European social and political theory, contemporary political philosophy, critical theory, historiography, and international political economy. His work provides invaluable insights on issues of race and racism, social justice, the Third Way, imperialism, austerity, and EU politics, among many other fascinating contemporary issues. Alex studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics before writing a DPhil on Marx\u27s Capital, also at Balliol. He was a Junior Research Fellow in Contemporary Social Thought at St Peter\u27s College, Oxford from 1979 to 1981, after which he taught social and political theory at the Department of Politics at the University of York until 2005, when he moved to King\u27s College London. Alex is currently the Professor of European Studies at King\u27s and editor of International Socialism. Alex has been an active contributor to the development of the movement for another globalization, participating in the World Social Forum and an animator of the European Social Forum. Among his best known books are The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx (1983), Against Postmodernism (1990), Social Theory (1999), An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto (2003), The Resources of Critique (2006), Imperialism and Global Political Economy (2009). His most recent book is entitled Deciphering Capital: Marx’s Capital and its Destiny (2014)
Institutionalism versus Marxism : Perspectives for Social Science - A Debate Between Geoffrey Hodgson and Alex Callinicos
Full text linkOn 30 April 2001 a public debate was held in the Fielder Centre at the University of Hertfordshire, between Alex Callinicos of the University of York and Geoffrey Hodgson of the University of Hertfordshire, on the theme Institutionalism versus Marxism. With the agreement of the two participants in the debate, this is an edited transcript of the two opening speeches
Fiscal issue: consensus and dissent in Marxist literature in the light of Alex Callinicos
No full textEsta dissertação tem como objetivo realizar um balanço sobre como os marxistas, selecionados a partir de critérios estabelecidos por uma metodologia de revisão sistematizada, vêm discutindo a questão fiscal (debate sobre os sentidos da austeridade, do direcionamento da dívida pública e da política fiscal) no contexto da crise capitalismo contemporâneo. Compreende-se a crise a partir da interpretação de Alex Callinicos, que apresenta uma leitura que torna possível o entendimento da crise em seus aspectos lógicos e históricos. Para apreender a discussão da escola marxista sobre a questão fiscal, aplica-se uma metodologia de revisão sistematizada para seleção e análise da produção de artigos científicos pertinentes na área. O próximo passo consiste em comparar os resultados da revisão com o pensamento de Callinicos, ressaltando tendências do capital, a interpretação da crise do capitalismo, sua ligação com a questão fiscal e o limite do reformismo. Por fim, compara-se a natureza da discussão nos estudos de casos obtidos na revisão, destacando a diferença das reformas aplicadas em solo europeu com as do restante do mundo, enfatizando também o que pensam os autores sobre as possibilidades práticas frente aos desafios impostos pela questão fiscal. Em nossa conclusão, foi possível apreender que a corrente marxista debate a questão fiscal em dois grandes eixos: 1) a limitação das soluções fiscais enquanto vetor para enfrentamento dos desafios do capitalismo; 2) os impactos nas políticas sociais, que dado a austeridade, resulta-se no avanço de mecanismos que promovem a mercantilização do fundo público. Ressaltamos ainda como no debate marxista, privilegia-se muito mais a descrição teórica dos fenômenos do que a atuação pragmáticaThis dissertation aims to assess how Marxists have been discussing the fiscal issue (debate about the meaning of austerity, the direction of the public debt, and fiscal policy) in the context of the crisis of contemporary capitalism. First, Alex Callinicos' interpretation is exposed to deal with the dilemma of crisis, which presents a reading that makes it possible to understand the crisis in its logical and historical aspects. Henceforth, in order to apprehend the discussion of the Marxist school on the fiscal issue, a systematic critical review methodology is applied in order to, based on objective criteria, select and analyse the relevant bibliography in the area. The next step is to compare the review results with Callinicos's thinking, highlighting trends in the capital, the interpretation of the crisis of capitalism, its connection with the fiscal question and the limit of reformism. Additionally, the nature of the discussion is compared in the case studies obtained in the review, highlighting the difference between the reforms applied on European soil and those in the rest of the world, also emphasising what the authors think about the practical possibilities in the face of the challenges imposed by the fiscal issue. In our conclusion, it was possible to apprehend that the Marxist current debates the fiscal issue in two main axes: 1) the limitation of fiscal solutions as a vector to challenge the problems of capitalism; 2) the impacts on social policies, which given the austerity, results in the advancement of mechanisms that promote the commodification of the public fund. We also emphasise how the theoretical description of phenomena is privileged much more than pragmatic action in the Marxist debat
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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