Browsing by Author "Neilson, David"

• Formal and real subordination and the contemporary proletariat: Re-coupling Marxist class theory and labour-process analysis 

  Neilson, David (Conference of Socialist Economists, 2007)

  Having seemed to offer so much in the 1970s, neo-Marxist class theory went into significant decline in the decades that followed. This paper begins with a critique of E.O. Wright’s 1980s detour via a reworking of central ...

• Making history beyond neoliberalism: Response to Roper 

  Neilson, David (Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand, 2011)

  Roper (2011a, p. 39) sums up his account of neoliberalism in New Zealand with the following conclusion: “In the absence of a major upsurge in working class and social movement struggle, the neoliberal policy regime is ...

  

• Relative surplus population and uneven development in the neoliberal era: Theory and empirical application 

  Neilson, David; Stubbs, Thomas (Sage, 2011)

  This paper offers the groundwork of an alternative to mainstream (un)employment theory that builds on Marx’s account of the ‘active army’ and ‘relative surplus population’. With special application to the current neoliberal ...

• Remaking the Connections: Marxism and the French Regulation School 

  Neilson, David (Sage, 2011)

  The current Robert Boyer-led French Regulation School (FRS) characterizes the contemporary era as a diversity of national capitalisms. Boyer’s new approach displaces the original FRS focus on “models of development.” This ...

• The political field and public relations : Competing discourses in New Zealand’s first MMP election 

  Roper, Juliet (The University of Waikato, 2000)

  This thesis uses Norman Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis to analyse the campaign discourse of each of the five main political parties that contested the New Zealand general election in 1996. The parties ...

  

• Insecure, unpredictable, hoping to survive: Four cases of Māori people living precariously in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Uerata, Lynley Moana (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  A conceptualisation of precarity is introduced and adopted. A critique of contemporary conceptualisations of precarity is presented, drawing especially on Stuart Hall’s interpretation of articulation and Marx’s concept of ...

  

• Bringing regulation to the fore of food regime theory: The neoliberal model of development in agriculture and beyond in theory and practice 

  Howard, Darelle Jane (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  This thesis works to bring in a critically revised version of regulation theory in order to address impasses in food regime theory. This theoretical innovation enables me to identify McMichael’s (2005; 2009a; 2009b; 2013) ...

  

• Someone else’s gender: locating the transsexual narrative in the gendered landscape 

  Bates, Denise J. (The University of Waikato, 2001)

  This thesis draws on 64 published life-stories of transsexuals to explore the structure and performance of gender in Western society. The concepts of “normal”, “natural”, or “ordinary”, gender are based on a set of largely ...

  

• On interpellation: an introduction to specular sociology 

  Casser, Joan (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  Louis Althusser's theory of interpellation represents certain social phenomena (including, but not limited to: class, state power, philosophy, and art) as being constituted by mirror structures of mis/recognition (cf. ...

  

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