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Dr Peter Wilkin
Reader - Comms, Media & Cultural Studies

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Research area(s)

 I have published articles in major academic journals (and monographs) in the following subject areas:

  • Political economy and Globalisation
  • World-Systems Analysis
  • Security and Development
  • Philosophy of social science
  • Anarchist social thought
  • Media, social change and democracy
  • Hungary in the Modern World-System
  • Critical Realism
  • Social movements and protests
  • Design practices and everyday life
  • The work of Noam Chomsky
  • Popular Culture and social criticism

Research Interests

Current Research

Articles

  1. Watch your Step: World-Systems Analysis as Critical Social Science - under review Journal of World-Systems Research.
  2. Things Fall Apart: Brexit in the Longue Durée - under review with the International Journal of Politics, Culture and society
  3. How to enjoy a Free Lunch: The Student debt crisis – to be submitted to Critical Sociology 2025.
  4. The Mask has Slipped: The (Geo) culture wars and the war for civilization - to be submitted to the Journal of World-Systems Research, January 2025.
  5. Murder Incorporated:  Debt and mass killing in sub-Saharan Africa - to be submitted to Third World Quarterly 2025.

Books

  1. Till Debt us do part: The Student debt crisis and the new anti-Enlightenment in the UK and the USA, Bloomsbury Press, 2027.
  2. Murder Incorporated: A Libertarian Socialist critique of the West’s War against the Third World, AK Press, 2027.

Research grants and projects

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