Peter Wilkin

Qualifications

• Phd Politics and IR (Southampton)
  

Personal Biography

I worked at Lancaster University from 1994 in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and moved to Brunel in August 2005. My primary research interests have been in social and political theory and political economy as a way of understanding social processes such as: globalisation and social change, developments in global communication, political culture and the modern world-system, democracy and social conflict and anarchist social theory. I am currently involved in a number of projects relating to the concept of 'virtual solidarity' with regard to the role of revolutionary unions in the modern world-system and issues raised by corporate propaganda.

Research Overview

My research has been based around a critical engagement with world-systems analysis and anarchist social thought. This has led to a focus on issues to do with: globalisation and development; global communication and democracy, human nature in social theory, dissidents and dissent in popular culture, amongst other things.

Current Projects

Virtual solidarity and revolutionary unions – precarious migrant labour in the UK

Media and democracy in Hungary

The Politics of Design

Libertarian education? A critical analysis of human scale education in Jaywick

Online corporate PR and protest

Recently Completed Projects

Papers in Refereed Journals

2014                ‘Ergonomics as authoritarian or libertarian: Learning from Colin Ward’s politics of design’, The Design Journal, accepted for publication.

2012                ‘Ergonomics and sustainability: Towards and Embrace of Complexity and Emergence’ (with S. Dekker and Peter Hancock), Ergonomics: Design, Practice and Management, first published on-line September 2012.

2012                ‘George Orwell: Tory Anarchist as English Dissident’, Political Studies, first published on-line May 2012.

2009                ‘Are you sitting comfortably? The Political Economy of the Body’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 31(1), 35–50.

2009                ‘The Ideology of Ergonomics’, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics. 10(2), 1-15.

2008                ‘Global Communication and Political Culture in the Semi-Periphery: The Rise of the Globo Corporation’, Review of International Studies, 34, 93-113.

2008                ‘Tory Anarchy in the UK’, Anarchist Studies, 17(1), 22-44.

Sole-Authored Books

2010                The Strange Case of Tory Anarchism. London: Libri Press (formerly Middlesex University Press).

PhD Supervision

Rabia Gewieder: Libya in the Modern Orientalist World-System: A Critical Analysis of English Language Acquisition (ELA) as a Factor in Libya’s New Developmental Strategy; January 2008

Naima Al-Naami: Libyan Migration in the UK; January 2009

Galib Al-Abady: Nation-Building in post-conflict Iraq; January 2009

Abdulai Conteh: Human security and Neoliberalism in Sierra Leone; May 2009

Anna Tippett: The Sexualisation of popular culture – the case of lads’ mags; October 2010

Hamdi Malik: Gender and technology in post-conflict Iraq; October 2010

Undergraduate Programmes

Module convenor

• Media, Culture and Society
• Global Communication

Postgraduate Programmes

Module contributor

• Media and Globalisation

• Co-director of the Centre for Culture, Media and Regulation
• Exams officer
• Research grants officer
• Senior tutor

• Referee for the following journals: Third World Quarterly, Review of International Studies, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Journal of Anarchist Studies, Social Science and Medicine, The European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Modern African Studies, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics, Media, Culture and Society
• Visiting Lecturer
• External Examiner