Michael Andrew Žmolek
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Tribute to George C. Comninel
August of 2022 brought the passing of George Comninel, a dear colleague and friend. As I did not make the celebration of his life held last month in Toronto, I wrote the following tribute, which was shared in written form at the event. George served as the acting supervisor of my dissertation project from its earliest inceptions in 1993-1994 down to its completion in 2008. During those years, the wealth of knowledge which George shared with me is difficult to describe. I will have more to say in...
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Call for Book Chapters: “Contradictions in Policy and Politics in the PRC”
Vernon Press invites book chapters for a forthcoming edited volume on the subject of “Contradictions in Policy and Politics in the PRC.”
Decades of unprecedented growth have launched China to the status of a world power, but China’s economy appears to be facing strong headwinds on many fronts. Given the preponderant role of the CCP in both economics and politics, it has been suggested not only that China defies traditional analyses which turn on the state/private dichotomy, but also th...
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Appel à chapitres de livre : “Contradictions dans la politique et la politique en RPC”
Vernon Press invite des chapitres de livre pour un volume édité à paraître sur le sujet des « Contradictions dans la politique et la politique en RPC ».
Des décennies de croissance sans précédent ont propulsé la Chine au rang de puissance mondiale, mais l'économie chinoise semble faire face à de forts vents contraires sur de nombreux fronts. Compte tenu du rôle prépondérant du PCC dans l'économie et la politique, il a été suggéré non seulement que la Chine défie les anal...
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征集书籍章节: “中国政策与政治的矛盾”
弗农出版社为即将出版的题为“中国政策与政治的矛盾”的编辑征集书籍章节。
虽然数十年前所未有的增长使中国成为世界强国，但中国经济似乎在许多方面都面临着强大的阻力。 鉴于中共在经济和政治中的主导作用，有人认为，中国不仅打破了传统的国家/私人二分法分析，而且中共展现了这个世界上最大的政党具有的独特危机管理能力。
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Nuclear Apathy Redux
For those of us who grew up during the Cold War, it was something of a coming-of-age moment to realize that at any second of any day, one might perish in the kind of hellfire often preached of in churches but resulting from a strike from a thermonuclear missile launched from the Soviet Union, or if you lived there, from the United States or Western Europe. Of course, at any second of any day, one might perish from an infinite number of causes: a brain aneurism, a heart attack. What is so differe...
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Current Work
A contribution to a debate originating at the London HM Conference in 2019 has been published under the title: ‘On “The Problem with Brenner”: The Paradox of Agency and the Heresy of Reification’ in Historical Materialism 29, (Fall 2021).
A paper I gave at the 2020 European Studies Conference at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, October 2-3 titled ‘The Banker Who Ate His Money: Enclosures, Economic Reductionism and the “Corn Model” of David Ricardo’ has recently been published as part of the conference proceedings. This was my fourth of five papers presented at the ESC and a theme has developed out of these papers which I hope some day to turn into a book on enclosures and Political Economy. Previous ESC papers have included: 'Market Dependence, Market Imperatives and the Making of Industrial Capitalism in England’ (2017); ‘Adam Smith as Theorist of Agrarian Capitalism’ (2018); 'The Dark World of Reverend Malthus' (2019); and ‘Blood from a Turnip: The Failure to Apply Laissez-Faire in France, from the Physiocrats to Say’ (2021).
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 Michael Andrew Žmolek teaches World History, International Studies and Development Studies at the University of Iowa. His book Rethinking the Industrial Revolution (Brill 2013; Haymarket 2014) explores five centuries of English/British history and is part of a broader effort to understand the nature and origins of capitalism. He is currently part of a team writing a world history textbook for Cognella Publishers and is preparing the growndwork for an archival collection on capitalism and the long ninetenth century for Routledge. Mike received a BA in Linguistics and a Certificate of African studies at Iowa before going on to complete his PhD in Political Science at York University in Toronto, where he served as an executive of the Graduate Students' Association for four years. As a legislative assistant in Congress, his work focused on addressing the plight of Gulf Coast survivors of Hurricane Katrina and on drafting articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for representatives Cynthia McKinney (GA) and Dennis Kucinich (OH). As an activist he has worked on the campaign to abolish apartheid in South Africa; opposing tuition hikes for students in Canada; and opposing the bombing, sanctions and military occupation of Iraq.
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