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Curriculum Vitae William I CURRICULUM VITAE WILLIAM I. ROBINSON Department of Sociology University of California-Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93016 e-mail: [email protected] Education Ph.D. Sociology. University of New Mexico. 1994 M.A. Latin American Studies. University of New Mexico. 1992 B.A. Journalism (major) and International Studies (minor). Friends World College, Huntington, N.Y. 1981. Included four years of study in Kenya, Nigeria and Costa Rica. University of Ibadan, Nigeria. (visiting student). Courses in African Studies, political economy, international relations, and journalism. 1979 University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1977-1978 (visiting student). Courses in African studies, politics, economics and journalism. 1977-1978 Current Positions 2001 - present Assistant to Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American and Iberian Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara. Prior Academic Positions 1998-2001 Assistant Professor of Sociology, New Mexico State University 1996 - 1998 Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1994 - 1996 Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 1994-2001 Faculty, Masters Program in International Relations Program, Central American University (Managua) Publications 1 Books 2020 The Global Police State. London: Pluto Press Turkish edition, Ayrinti Yayinlari, scheduled for 2021 2020 Routledge new edition/reissue of A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy In the Post Cold War Era, first published in 1992 by Westview Press. 2018 Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism, Chicago: Haymarket Books. 2017 We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel’s Critics (edited with Maryam Griffin), London and Oakland: Pluto Press and AK Press. Arab language edition in press as of January 2018, Al Kotob Publishing House, Cairo. 2014 Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chinese edition, Chongqing Publishing House Co., Ltd (Beijing), scheduled for release in 2019 Spanish edition, Siglo XXI (Mexico City), scheduled for release in 2021. Turkish edition, Ayrinti Yayinlari, scheduled for 2021 2008 Latin America and Global Capitalism: A Globalization Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2016: updated Spanish edition, America Latina y el Capitalismo Global, Siglo XXI, Mexico City. 2005 Critical Globalization Studies (edited, with Richard Appelbuam). New York/London: Routledge. 2004 A Theory of Global Capitalism: Production, Class and State in a Transnational World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Spanish edition published in 2007, Una Teoria del Capitalismo Global: Produccion, Clase, y Estado en un Mundo Transnacional. Bogota: Desde Abajo. Chinese edition publihsed in 2009 by Social Science Academy Press. Czech edition published in 2012 with a new Preface. Prague: Center for Global Studies, Czech Academy of Sciences. Second updated Spanish edition, with a new preface, published in 2014 by Siglo XXI, Mexico City. 2003 Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization. London: Verso. Spanish edition published in 2011 with a new introduction, Conflictos Transnacionales: Centroamerica, Cambio Social, y Globalizacion. San Salvador: Ediciones UCA/Central American University Press. 1996 Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, U.S. Intervention, and Hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2 Serbian edition, published in 2012 with a new Introduction. Belgrade: Filip Vichnich Publishing House, in conjunction with the University of Belgrade. 1992 A Faustian Bargain: U.S. Intervention in the Nicaraguan Elections and American Foreign Policy In the Post Cold War Era. Boulder: Westview Press. New edition by Routledge published 2020. 1987 David and Goliath: The U.S. War Against Nicaragua. New York: Monthly Review Press, with Kent Norsworthy (also published by Zed Press, London). Articles in Academic Journals In Press “Global Capitalism Post Pandemic,” Race and Class. In Press “Militarized Accumulation,” Australian Journal of Political Economy , scheduled for Vol. 86, Summer 2020/21 In Press “Passive Revolution and the Movement against Mass Incarceration: From Prison Abolition to Redemption Script,” Social Justice. 2020 “Don’t Cry for me, Latin America,” Human Geography, on-line edition published 24 March, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1942778620910941 2019 “Desigualdad Salvaje Global: El Precariado y la Humanidad Superflua,” Anthropos, No. 250 2019 “La Segunda Implosión de Centroamérica,” Tensoes Mundiais, 15(28), 33-44. 2019 “Savage Inequalities: Capitalist Crisis and Surplus Humanity,” International Critical Thought 2019 “Capital has an Internationale, and it is Going Fascist,” Globalizations and Journal of World- Systems Research 2019 “Israel, Palestine, and Latin America: The Contemporary Moment,” by invitation, Latin American Perspectives, 2019 “Global Capitalist Crisis and Twenty-First Century Fascism: Beyond the Trump Hype,” Science and Society, 83(2):481-509. Translated into Chinese and published in the journal Foreign Theoretical Trends, 2019, 11: 53-68. Translated in Turkish and published in the journal Praksis, No. 50, 13-36, 2019. 2018 “The Next Economic Crisis: Digital Capitalism and Global Police State,” Race and Class, 60(1):77-92. 2018 “Accumulation Crisis and Global Police State,” Critical Sociology, 2018:1-14. 2017 “Debate on the New Global Capitalism: Transnational Capitalist Class, Transnational State Apparatuses, and Global Crisis,” International Critical Thought, 7(2):171-189. Translated into Chinese and published in Foreign Theoretical Trends (no. 8, 2018). 2017 “Marx After Post-Narratives: A Critical Reading of Ronaldo Munck’s Critical Reading of Marx,” Global Discourse, 7(4):602-608. 2017 “Global Capitalism and the Restructuring of Education: The Transnational Capitalist Class’ Quest 3 to Suppress Critical Thinking,” Social Justice, 43(3). 2016 “L’heure d’un Changement de Paradigm: La Monee de Capital Transnational et le Debat sur la Classe Dominate Mondialisee” [“Time for a Paradigm Shift?: The Rise of Transnational Capital and Debate on the Global Ruling Class”], Actuel Marx, No. 60: 43-61. 2016 “Globalization and Race in World Capitalism” Journal of World-Systems Research, 22(1):3-8. 2015 “Clarity, Theoretical, Conceptual and Normative Commitment in the Critique of Global Capitalism,” Deliberation, Knowledge Ethnics (Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik[EWE]) 2015 “The Transnational State and the BRICS: A Global Capitalism Perspective,” Third World Quarterly, 36(1). 2014 “Global Capitalism, Immigrant Labor, and the Struggle for Justice,” Class, Race, and Corporate Power, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Article 1, Fall 2014. 2014 “Os BRICS no Capitalismo Transnacional,” Tensoes Mund, 10(18-19):491-503. 2014 “The Fetishism of Empire: A Critical Review of Panitch and Gindin’s The Making of Global Capitalism,” Studies in Political Economy, 93, spring:147-165. 2013 “Policing the Global Crisis,” Journal of World-Systems Research, 19(2):193-197. 2013 “Global Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the Crisis,” Globalizations, 10(5), pp. 715-727. 2013 “Promoting Polyarchy: Twenty Years Later,” International Relations 2012 “’The Great Recession’ of 2008 and the Continuing Crisis: A Global Capitalism Perspective,” The International Review of Modern Sociology, 38 (2):169-198 2012 “Global Capitalism and the Emergence of Transnational Elites” Critical Sociology, 38(3):349-364 2012 “Capitalist Globalization as World Historic Context: A Response”, Critical Sociology, 38(3):405- 416. 2012 “Global Capitalism and Twenty-First Century Fascism: A U.S. Case Study”, Race and Class, Lead author, co-authored with Mario Barrera. 53(3):4-29. 2011 “Global Capital Leviathan,” Radical Philosophy, No 165:2-6. 2011 “Globalization and the Sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A Critical Appraisal,” International Sociology, 26(6): 723-745. 2010 “Reputations: Giovanni Arrighi: Systemic Cycles of Accumulation and Hegemonic Transitions, and the Rise of China,” New Political Economy. 2009 “Global Capitalism, Social Science, and Methods of Critique: Response to Cammack’s ‘Forget the Transnational State’,” Geopolitics, History and International Relations, 1(2).98-108. 2009 “Saskia Sassen and the Sociology of Globalization: A Critical Appraisal,” Sociological Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 1: 5-29. 2009 “Globalizacion, Crisis, y Escenarios de Futuro,” Estudios Centroamericanos, 63(715-716):331- 4 344. 2007 “Jess Diaz and Javier Rodriguez: Undocumented in America,” Interview Essay, New Left Review, 47, Sept-Oct: 93-106. 2007 “The Pitfall of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Empire of Capital,” Historical Materialism, 15:71-93. 2007 “Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State,” Societies Without Borders, 2:5-26. 2006 “Reification and Theoreticism in the Study of Globalization, Imperialism, and Hegemony: A Comment on Kiely, Pozo, and Valladao,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 19(3) 2006 “Aqui Estamos y no Nos Vamos!: Global Capitalist and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights,” Race and Class. 48(2). 2005 “Gramsci and Globalization: From Nation-State to Transnational Hegemony,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 4:1-16. 2005 “Global Capitalism: The New Transnationalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking,” Science and Society,
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