We Make Our Own History
Can Marxist theory contribute to politically relevant analyses of social movements? How is our present conjuncture shaped by social movements – both from “above” and from “below”? Has neoliberalism entered its twilight, and if so, what challenges does this entail for contemporary popular movements?
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These are key questions that will be addressed at a book seminar organized by the Department of Sociology on Wednesday 25 February, where Laurence Cox (National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (Department of Sociology, UiB) will be talking about their book We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto Press, 2014).
The book argues for a Marxist perspective on social movements, and presents detailed analyses of the crisis of neoliberalism and ongoing processes of mobilization across the North-South axis of the capitalist world-system.
Short excerpts from the book are available from Discover Society, ROARMag, Open Democracy, and Ceasefire Magazine, and several of the central arguments in the book have also been discussed in the book chapter “What Would a Marxist Theory of Social Movements Look Like?”, from the edited volume Marxism and Social Movements (Brill, 20913).
The seminar is open to staff and students.
