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By combining Marxism with feminist political economy and political ecology, this book develops a theoretical frame about the continuity of plundering and looting in the region of Tumaco-San Lorenzo at the Pacific coast of Colombia and Ecuador, as well as the long history of resistance that Black-Afro communities of artisan fishers and small farmers have carried out for more than five centuries. Using the palm oil industry as example, the research shows the features of "primitive or primary accumulation" in these places. From a historical perspective, the author exposes the imperialist...

This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in their fields, and yet they follow pathways which are anything but unique. Drawing from a unique data set, the authors analyse the trajectories of the almost 2000 linguists and sociologists who hold full professorships in Germany, France and the UK in 2015.  With a background in social theory, they reveal models, structures and rules that organise the professional lives and biographies of the most senior academics. This book presents the results of a systematic empirical study,...

This volume addresses the manifold conjunctures, interactions, and disjunctures that occur at various levels of what has come to be defined under the buzzword, "globalization." While this term has the merit of bringing more fluency to the concept of capitalist dynamics, it simultaneously points to a crisis of representation both in political and epistemological terms. These contributions from the social sciences and humanities assess some of the manifold aspects of the globalization crisis.