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Papers by Matt Davies

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching urban spaces and world politics: Perdido Street Station and pedagogies of production

Art & the Public Sphere, 2021

This article explores teaching international politics, international political economy (IPE) and ... more This article explores teaching international politics, international political economy (IPE) and urbanism through a reading of China Miéville’s novel, Perdido Street Station. The novel as an artefact of popular culture affords a critical encounter with the production of space for students of international politics and IPE. Departing from prevailing approaches to understanding the urban in relation to the international that tend to focus on networks and circulation, the article offers a reading of the novel as demonstrating the production of space. The article links a critique of the hierarchical relations between teacher and student to critiques of the subordination of labour to design and planning, both of which render invisible the work of producing knowledge and space. Through an analysis of the political struggles over the formal and real subsumption of labour in Perdido Street Station, the article argues that studying the politics of urbanism in relation to the international th...

Research paper thumbnail of Neoliberalism, Violence, and the Body: Dollhouse and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject

International Political Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of Civilizations and culture in the global political economy: Recent attempts to understand culture in the world system

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges to the Chilean Regime and Critical Mass Communication Studies: 1967–73

International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Repression and Resistance: 1973–90

International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Everyday Life in the Global Political Economy

International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Power, Production and World Order Revisited: Some Preliminary Conclusions

Poverty and the Production of World Politics, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Do It Yourself: Punk Rock and the Disalienation of International Relations

Resounding International Relations, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Everyday Life as Critique: Revisiting the Everyday in IPE with Henri Lefebvre and Postcolonialism

International Political Sociology, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Production in everyday life: poetics and prosaics

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile

Research paper thumbnail of A decade of negative thinking: Essays on art, politics, and daily life

Visual Studies, 2011

The essays collected in A decade of negative thinking present lucid, highly engaged and engaging ... more The essays collected in A decade of negative thinking present lucid, highly engaged and engaging reflections on the politics, rhetoric and political economy of artistic practice. The essays are organised into three sections, plus an interlude of Mira Schor's reflections on her experiences of the September 11 attacks as an artist living in Lower Manhattan.

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2005

1. Major contributions to a heterodox international political economy of finance include the work... more 1. Major contributions to a heterodox international political economy of finance include the work of Canadians Eric Helleiner (1994) and Randall Germain (1997), each strongly influenced by Cox; in England, critical debate about global finance has been shaped also by the contributions of Philip G. Cerny (1993), Ronen Palan (1999), Tony Porter (1993), and Geoffrey Underhill (1997). Frieden and Martin left aside important Marxist contributions from the United States to debates on finance, notably contributions from Robert Brenner (1998) ...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order David P. Levine and S. Abu Turab Rizvi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 159 pp + bibliography and index. ISBN-13 978-0-521-84826-8 (hardback), ISBN-10 0-521-84826-1; $65 (US) or  40, hardback. (hardback)

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2009

Book Reviews 579 con ceive the interpersonal world of the family in isolation. It ignores how the... more Book Reviews 579 con ceive the interpersonal world of the family in isolation. It ignores how the way in which the parent relates to the child expresses societal ideals translated into norms of family life”(130). Or:“Family failure expresses societal failure”(132). However, while the book examines the constraints imposed by group identities and the possibilities inherent in child development in the family, other important collectivities are not discussed. Thus, when discussing the norms of creativity as prevailing or not in families and examining how ...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: The Myth of the Powerless State

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2000

Advertisement. Institution: Google Indexer. Sign In; |; My Tools; |; Contact Us; |; HELP. SJO ban... more Advertisement. Institution: Google Indexer. Sign In; |; My Tools; |; Contact Us; |; HELP. SJO banner. Search all journals. Advanced Search Go; Search History Go; Browse Journals Go. Google Indexer. Skip to main page content. Home; OnlineFirst; All Issues; Subscribe; RSS rss; Email Alerts. Advertisement. Search this journal. Advanced Journal Search ». Articles: Matt Davies. Book Review: The Myth of the Powerless State Review of Radical Political Economics ...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Civilizations and Culture in the Global Political Economy: Recent Attempts to Understand Culture in the World System

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1999

... DOI: 10.1177/048661349903100311 1999 31: 110 Review of Radical Political EconomicsMatt Davies... more ... DOI: 10.1177/048661349903100311 1999 31: 110 Review of Radical Political EconomicsMatt Davies Attempts to Understand Culture in the World System Book Review: Civilizations and Culture in the Global Political Economy: Recent Published by: ...

Research paper thumbnail of Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum

Politics, 2009

In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and o... more In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics.

Research paper thumbnail of “You Can’t Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!” Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer1

International Political Sociology, 2010

Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's tran... more Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's transformation from an alienating burden imposed upon the worker into the prospect for autonomy and self-creation through the struggle to integrate creativity with sociability. This transformation of work is realized through a transformation of space that, in turn, signals a connection between the critique of work and the critique of International Relations (IR). To begin to think of a possible world politics that can overcome the limiting of politics in IR may indeed require the kind of critique of work that Buffy the Vampire Slayer develops-a critique that much critical theory seems to have abandoned. Thus a critique of IR entails an analytical engagement with documents that can mediate between theoretical reflection and the lived dramas of everyday life, such as those mediations produced in popular culture.

Research paper thumbnail of The public spheres of unprotected workers

Global Society, 2005

This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces,... more This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces, focusing on how 'unprotected'workers in household relations of production can become political subjects antagonistic to world order. For unprotected workers the very lack of institutional protection makes articulating political demands risky. At the same time, the need to conceptualise the manner in which the workers in the households and in proximate forms of social relations of production become political subjects is increasingly urgent. The ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Myth of the Powerless State

Contemporary Sociology, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching urban spaces and world politics: Perdido Street Station and pedagogies of production

Art & the Public Sphere, 2021

This article explores teaching international politics, international political economy (IPE) and ... more This article explores teaching international politics, international political economy (IPE) and urbanism through a reading of China Miéville’s novel, Perdido Street Station. The novel as an artefact of popular culture affords a critical encounter with the production of space for students of international politics and IPE. Departing from prevailing approaches to understanding the urban in relation to the international that tend to focus on networks and circulation, the article offers a reading of the novel as demonstrating the production of space. The article links a critique of the hierarchical relations between teacher and student to critiques of the subordination of labour to design and planning, both of which render invisible the work of producing knowledge and space. Through an analysis of the political struggles over the formal and real subsumption of labour in Perdido Street Station, the article argues that studying the politics of urbanism in relation to the international th...

Research paper thumbnail of Neoliberalism, Violence, and the Body: Dollhouse and the Critique of the Neoliberal Subject

International Political Sociology

Research paper thumbnail of Civilizations and culture in the global political economy: Recent attempts to understand culture in the world system

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Challenges to the Chilean Regime and Critical Mass Communication Studies: 1967–73

International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Repression and Resistance: 1973–90

International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Everyday Life in the Global Political Economy

International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Power, Production and World Order Revisited: Some Preliminary Conclusions

Poverty and the Production of World Politics, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Do It Yourself: Punk Rock and the Disalienation of International Relations

Resounding International Relations, 2005

Research paper thumbnail of Everyday Life as Critique: Revisiting the Everyday in IPE with Henri Lefebvre and Postcolonialism

International Political Sociology, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Production in everyday life: poetics and prosaics

Handbook of the International Political Economy of Production, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile

Research paper thumbnail of A decade of negative thinking: Essays on art, politics, and daily life

Visual Studies, 2011

The essays collected in A decade of negative thinking present lucid, highly engaged and engaging ... more The essays collected in A decade of negative thinking present lucid, highly engaged and engaging reflections on the politics, rhetoric and political economy of artistic practice. The essays are organised into three sections, plus an interlude of Mira Schor's reflections on her experiences of the September 11 attacks as an artist living in Lower Manhattan.

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: World Financial Orders: An Historical International Political Economy

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2005

1. Major contributions to a heterodox international political economy of finance include the work... more 1. Major contributions to a heterodox international political economy of finance include the work of Canadians Eric Helleiner (1994) and Randall Germain (1997), each strongly influenced by Cox; in England, critical debate about global finance has been shaped also by the contributions of Philip G. Cerny (1993), Ronen Palan (1999), Tony Porter (1993), and Geoffrey Underhill (1997). Frieden and Martin left aside important Marxist contributions from the United States to debates on finance, notably contributions from Robert Brenner (1998) ...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order David P. Levine and S. Abu Turab Rizvi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 159 pp + bibliography and index. ISBN-13 978-0-521-84826-8 (hardback), ISBN-10 0-521-84826-1; $65 (US) or  40, hardback. (hardback)

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2009

Book Reviews 579 con ceive the interpersonal world of the family in isolation. It ignores how the... more Book Reviews 579 con ceive the interpersonal world of the family in isolation. It ignores how the way in which the parent relates to the child expresses societal ideals translated into norms of family life”(130). Or:“Family failure expresses societal failure”(132). However, while the book examines the constraints imposed by group identities and the possibilities inherent in child development in the family, other important collectivities are not discussed. Thus, when discussing the norms of creativity as prevailing or not in families and examining how ...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: The Myth of the Powerless State

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2000

Advertisement. Institution: Google Indexer. Sign In; |; My Tools; |; Contact Us; |; HELP. SJO ban... more Advertisement. Institution: Google Indexer. Sign In; |; My Tools; |; Contact Us; |; HELP. SJO banner. Search all journals. Advanced Search Go; Search History Go; Browse Journals Go. Google Indexer. Skip to main page content. Home; OnlineFirst; All Issues; Subscribe; RSS rss; Email Alerts. Advertisement. Search this journal. Advanced Journal Search ». Articles: Matt Davies. Book Review: The Myth of the Powerless State Review of Radical Political Economics ...

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Civilizations and Culture in the Global Political Economy: Recent Attempts to Understand Culture in the World System

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1999

... DOI: 10.1177/048661349903100311 1999 31: 110 Review of Radical Political EconomicsMatt Davies... more ... DOI: 10.1177/048661349903100311 1999 31: 110 Review of Radical Political EconomicsMatt Davies Attempts to Understand Culture in the World System Book Review: Civilizations and Culture in the Global Political Economy: Recent Published by: ...

Research paper thumbnail of Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum

Politics, 2009

In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and o... more In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics.

Research paper thumbnail of “You Can’t Charge Innocent People for Saving Their Lives!” Work in Buffy the Vampire Slayer1

International Political Sociology, 2010

Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's tran... more Buffy the Vampire Slayer presents an argument about and critique of work that signals work's transformation from an alienating burden imposed upon the worker into the prospect for autonomy and self-creation through the struggle to integrate creativity with sociability. This transformation of work is realized through a transformation of space that, in turn, signals a connection between the critique of work and the critique of International Relations (IR). To begin to think of a possible world politics that can overcome the limiting of politics in IR may indeed require the kind of critique of work that Buffy the Vampire Slayer develops-a critique that much critical theory seems to have abandoned. Thus a critique of IR entails an analytical engagement with documents that can mediate between theoretical reflection and the lived dramas of everyday life, such as those mediations produced in popular culture.

Research paper thumbnail of The public spheres of unprotected workers

Global Society, 2005

This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces,... more This article examines emergent forms of political subjectivity amongst subordinate social forces, focusing on how 'unprotected'workers in household relations of production can become political subjects antagonistic to world order. For unprotected workers the very lack of institutional protection makes articulating political demands risky. At the same time, the need to conceptualise the manner in which the workers in the households and in proximate forms of social relations of production become political subjects is increasingly urgent. The ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Myth of the Powerless State

Contemporary Sociology, 2000