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Professor Mark Neocleous
Professor - Critique of Political Economy
Marie Jahoda 237
- Email: mark.neocleous@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266824
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I am Professor of the Critique of Political Economy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, having joined Brunel in 1994 in what was then a Department of Government. I am a critical theorist who focuses on questions of state and capital, especially as they pertain to police, security, and war. I also have an interest in the political imagination, especially concerning bodies, monstrosity, subjectivity, and death.
I am currently working on a book called The Most Beautiful Suicide.
In February 2025, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police will be published with Verso.
The Security Abolition Manifesto, co-authored as part of The Anti-Security Collective, is now out in English with Red Quill Books, and will soon be available in Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
My most recent book is The Politics of Immunity (Verso, 2022).
More detail of my research is given in the links above called 'Research' and 'Selected Publications'. The 'Selected Publications' section lists only my books. Most of my published work, including my books, is available for free on shadow libraries. Much of it is also available either here:
https://brunel.academia.edu/MarkNeocleous
or here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Neocleous
If there is a publication of mine that you can't find on those sites, email me and I'll do my best to provide it.
Qualifications:
- PhD Philosophy (Middlesex)
- MSc Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck)
- BSc Philosophy and Sociology (City)
Newest selected publications
Neocleous, M. and The Anti-Security Collective. (2024) 'The Security Abolition Manifesto'. Ottawa: Red Quill. ISSN 13: 978-1926958385
Neocleous, M. (2022) 'The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies'. Verso Books. ISSN 10: 183976483X ISSN 13: 9781839764837
Neocleous, M. (2021) 'A Critical Theory of Police Power'. Verso. ISSN 13: 978-1788735209
Neocleous, MA. (2017) 'Critique de la sécurité : Accumulation capitaliste et pacification sociale'. Paris, France: Editions Eterotopia. ISSN 13: 979-1093250205
Neocleous, MA. (2016) 'The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and 'The Enemies of All Mankind''. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISSN 13: 978-1-13-895515-8