Editorial Board

Alexander Anievas is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge where he also received an MPhil in International Relations. His research primarily concerns the political economy and historical sociology of international relations with a particular emphasis on their relationship to foreign policymaking, geopolitics and war. His PhD dissertation (‘Capitals, States, and Conflicts: International Political Economy and Crisis, 1914-1945’), explores these themes from the theoretical perspective of Leon Trotsky’s uneven and combined development. He is the outgoing Managing Editor for the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and has recently finished editing the collection Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge: 2010, forthcoming).

David Broder is shortly to begin a PhD in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London. His main research interest is the history of class struggle in Second World War Italy and France, with his PhD focusing on the Resistance movement in Rome. He is the translator of Yvan Craipeau’s Swimming against the tide (Merlin Press, 2012). 

Sebastian Budgen works as commissioning editor for Verso Books. He lives in Paris and works particularly on transformations of French political and intellectual life.

Steve Edwards teaches Art History at the Open University. His books include the edited collection Art of the Avant-Gardes (Yale University Press, 2004); The Making of English Photography, Allegories (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006) and Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (Afterall, 2012). He has written widely on art and capitalism. In addition to working on Historical Materialism, he is an editor of the Oxford Art Journal and a convenor for the research seminar Marxism in Culture (marxisminculture.org). Currently he is writing a book on intellectual property and biography in 19th century Britain. 

Giorgos Galanis is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Warwick. He is interested in the Marxist theories of money and credit and his  current research focuses on the relationship between overaccumulation and financial instability. 

Juan Grigera is assistant professor of History of Economic Thought at the University of Quilmes, Argentina and fellow of the National Council of Scientific Resarch (CONICET). His work on the Argentine 2001 crisis, deindustrialization and class formation has been published in several journals, including Historical Materialism and Herramienta.  In addition to working on Historical Materialism, he is also member of the editorial boards of Nuevo Topo and Tinta Roja (Argentina).

Adam Hanieh is a lecturer in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research addresses themes of Marxist political economy, with a geographical focus on the Middle East and North Africa - particularly the Gulf Arab states, Palestine and Egypt. His interests include class and state formation; internationalisation and the world market; theories of imperialism; and value theory. He is author of Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011).

Robert Knox is a PhD Candidate in Law at the London School of Economics. His PhD focuses on the concept of imperialism in Marxist and Third World approaches to international law. His research interests are in the areas of legal theory – particularly critical and Marxist legal theory – and international law.

Esther Leslie is Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of  London. She is the author of Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism (Pluto, 2000), and Walter Benjamin: Critical Lives (Reaktion, 2007). Other books include Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-garde (Verso, 2002) and Synthetic Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (Reaktion 2005). As well as her association with Historical Materialism, she is in the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy  and an editor of Revolutionary History. Her research interests are in Marxist theories of aesthetics and culture, with a particular focus on the work of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. Other research interests include European literary and visual modernism, the 'everyday' and value, memory and history, madness and expression and digital aesthetics. Together with Ben Watson she runs the website www.militantesthetix.co.uk

Matteo Mandarini is a Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. His research has focused on ways to think the organisation of conflict. He has written on Italian post-War communist thought (Negri, Tronti, Cacciari) as well as on French poststructuralism (Deleuze and Guattari), and on Heidegger and Schmitt. He is currently engaged in research on the question of the ‘autonomy of the political’ within Italian Marxism.

Thomas Marois is a Lecturer of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He works in the fields of comparative political economy and development and his research focuses on problems of emerging finance capitalism, particularly in regards to Mexico and Turkey. The social relationships of power between states, banks, and labour are central aspects of inquiry therein. Thomas Marois is author of the new book, 'States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey', published by Edward Elgar in 2012.

Antigoni Memou teaches history and theory of art at the University of East London. She co-organises the ‘Marxism in Culture’ research seminar and reading group held at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and she is an associated researcher in the ‘European Protest Movements’ Network.’ She has completed her PhD thesis entitled From the Globalisation of the Movement (1968) to the Movement Against Globalisation (2001): Social Movements, Photography, Representation in the Late Twentieth Century at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research interests include: art and radical politics; Marxism and critical theory; global contemporary art; the history and theory of photography; alternative media and social movements and Latin American contemporary art practices.

China Miéville is a novelist and writer of non-fiction. His non-fiction works include Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. His research interests include international law, science fiction and fantasy, cephalopods, and rejectamenta.

that revolution.  He sits on a number of editorial boards and is involved in a number of international initiatives, including running projects on sexuality, ethics and intellectuals with ID Net (http://www.inter-disciplinary.net). Further details are listed on Paul's COS CV (http://expertise.cos.com/cgi-bin/olu?mode=show_full;accn=1270806) and enquiries should be directed to reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk

Mary Robertson is a PhD candidate in economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies. She is interested in Marxist political economy and her research focuses on housing provision and finance 

Gregory Schwartz is a Lecturer at the University of Bath. His research has focussed on the transformation of labour and management in post-Soviet Russia. He has written articles on the nature and changes in the social constitution of power, on workplace hierarchy and authority, and on the interplay between class, subjectivity of labour, control, and the meaning of collectivism in the post-Soviet context. More widely, he is interested in the constitution of capital as command via antagonistic subordination of (expressions of and desires for) the common in production. In addition to Historical Materialism he currently serves on the editorial board of Work, Employment and Society. 

Guido Starosta is a Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester (UK). His research interests are in the political economy of development (with a regional focus on Latin America) and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Third World Quarterly, Antipode and New Political Economy. He is currently investigating the transformations of the forms of capitalist development in Mexico in the light of the novel configurations of the international division of labour.  He has also worked on issues of method, value-form theory and subjectivity in the Marxian critique of political economy. Publications from this other strand of research have appeared in Capital and Class, Science and Society and Historical Materialism.

Peter Thomas is Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London. He is the author of The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Brill, 2009; Haymarket, 2011), and (with Juha Koivisto) Mapping Communication and Media Research: Conjunctures, Institutions, Challenges (Tampere University Press, 2010) and co-editor (with Riccardo Bellofiore and Guido Starosta) of In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the Grundrisse (Brill, 2012). He has published widely on Marxist political theory and philosophy, the history of political thought and the history of philosophy. He is the translator of Antonio Negri, Goodbye Mr Socialism, (Seven Stories Press, 2008), (with Alberto Toscano) Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek’s, Philosophy in the Present (Polity, 2009), Mario Tronti’s Workers and Capital (Mayfly, 2012) and (with Sara R. Farris) Mario Tronti’s The Autonomy of the Political (forthcoming, 2012). He is currently working on three research projects: first, a critical history of contemporary Western European Marxisms, from 1945 to the present; second, a study of recent debates about the notion of the Political; and third, a critical reconstruction of the history of the concept of conjuncture in modern political thought and the social sciences.

Alberto Toscano is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (Palgrave, 2006) and Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (Verso, 2010) as well as the translator, most recently, of Alain Badiou’s Logics of Worlds (Continuum, 2009) and The Century (Polity, 2007). He is the author of numerous articles on European philosophy and contemporary political and social theory. His current research is focussed on the aesthetic problems posed by representing or mapping capitalism and on theories of 'real abstraction' in philosophy and political economy.

Jeffery R. Webber has been an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Regina, Canada, since autumn 2009. He spent the last several years splitting time between Canada, Europe, and various countries in Latin America. His main focus has been Bolivia, where he lived for extended periods in the early 2000s, but he is now expanding his research into the rest of the Latin America. Webber is a participating editor of Latin American Perspectives. His research interests include Latin American Political Economy, Development Theory, International Political Economy, Marxism, Imperialism, Hegemony, Empire and Globalization, Critical Race Theory, Social Movements, Politics of the Global South, and the Latin American Left.