Peter Burnham is a Marxist
professor
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of
political science
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and
international studies
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at the
University of Birmingham
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.
He was previously based at the
University of Warwick
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, where he was head of department in the Department of Politics and International Studies from 2004 to 2008 and where he remains an associate
fellow
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.
His interests lie in the areas of
British politics
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(specifically economic
policy making
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, including
exchange rate regime
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s),
radical
international political economy
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,
state theory, and political science
research methods
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(particularly the use of
national archives
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Conceptual development
From the Middle Ages i ...
).
He earned his BA and a PhD at the
University of Warwick
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.
He has an avid interest in Smith and Riccardo, as well as the Labour Theory of Value.
Burnham's publications include ''The Political Economy of Postwar Reconstruction'' (Macmillan, 1990), ''A Major Crisis? The Politics of Economic Policy in Britain in the 1990s'' (co-authored, Dartmouth, 1995), ''Remaking the Postwar World Economy: Robot and British Policy in the 1950s'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), ''Global Restructuring, State, Capital and Labour: Contesting Neo-Gramscian Perspectives'' (co-authored, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and ''Research Methods in Politics'' (co-authored, Palgrave Macmillan, second edition 2008).
See also
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Open Marxism
Open Marxism is a collection of critical and heterodox Marxist schools of thought which critique state socialism and party politics, stressing the need for openness to praxis and history through an anti-positivist method grounded in the "prac ...
*
Depoliticisation
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*
John Holloway (sociologist)
John Holloway (born 1947) is an Irish Marxist lawyer, sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. It has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with t ...
References
External links
University of Birmingham homepage
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Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Warwick
Alumni of the University of Warwick
British political scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)