Peter Bratsis 410 West End Avenue, #5D New York, New York 10024 212-799-3623 [email protected] CURRENT POSITION: Assistant Professor of Political Science (2012-present) Department of Social Sciences Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York EDUCATION: Ph.D. City University of New York, Political Science, 2002 Dissertation: Everyday Life and the State: A Materialist Revision of State Theory Committee: Stanley Aronowitz, John Bowman, David Harvey, Irving Leonard Markovitz and Frances Fox Piven B.A. University of Maryland, Political Science and Economics, 1991 PUBLICATIONS: Books 2006 Everyday Life and the State, Paradigm Publishers. Reviewed in: Cultural Sociology; Constellations; Historical Materialism. a. Spanish translation, forthcoming, Prometeo Libros. 2002 Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered (edited with Stanley Aronowitz), University of Minnesota Press. Reviewed in: Radical Society; Global Social Policy; Canadian Journal of Political Science; Review of Radical Political Economics; TheGlobalSite. a. Chinese translation, 2008, Jilin People’s Press. Refereed Journal Articles forthcoming “Political Corruption in the Age of Transational Capitalism: From the Relative Autonomy of the State to the White Man’s Burden,” Historical Materialism. a. Spanish translation, forthcoming, Revista Herramienta forthcoming, “Post-Political Sovereignty: Between Markets and Animals,” Critical Sociology. 2010 “Legitimation Crisis and the Greek Explosion,” International Journal for Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 34.1, 190-196. 2010 “Manifesto For A Left Turn: An Aristotelian-Marxist Critique,” Situations, Vol. 3 #2, 91-99. 2010 “The Greek Crisis - Politics, Economics, Ethics: A Debate” (with Etienne Balibar, Kevin Featherstone, Stathis Kouvelakis and Costas Lapavitsas), Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 28.2, 293-310. Peter Bratsis 2005 “Situations Manifesto” (with Stanley Aronowitz), Situations, Vol. 1 #1, 7-14. 2003 “The Construction of Corruption; or, Rules of Separation and Illusions of Purity in Bourgeois Societies,” Social Text, #77, Winter, 9-34. a. Greek translation, 2008, Synchrona Themata, #102, 11-25. b. Spanish translation, forthcoming, Ciencia Politica. 2000 “Political Theory and the Problem of the National Individual; or, The Dangers of Baseball, Hotdogs and Apple Pie,” Found Object, #8, Spring, 67-95. 1999 “Nicos Poulantzas and the Ontological Status of the State in Marxist Theory,” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. 25 #1-2, 155-176. a. Greek translation, 2001, in Politics Today: Nicos Poulantzas and the Contemporary Pertinence of His Work Alkis Rigos and Konstantinos Tsoukalas eds., Themelio, 183-204. 1994 “The Macedonian Question and the Politics of Identity: Resonance, Reproduction, Real Politik,” Journal of Modern Hellenism, #11, Winter, 109-121. Book Chapters 2011 “Greek Corruption in Context” in Crime and Punishment in Contemporary Greece: International Comparative Perspectives, Leonidas Cheliotis and Sappho Xenakis eds., Peter Lang Publishers, 197-207. 2010 (in Greek) “The Sociological Imagination of Konstantinos Tsoukalas” in Power and Society: Essays for Konstantinos Tsoukalas, Maria Kousis, Minas Samatas and Socrates Koniordos eds., Kastaniotis Publishers, 206-212. 2003 “Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Globalization, Spatial Metaphors, and the Question of State Power” in Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney eds., Basic Books, 123-131. a. Chinese translation, 2004, Guangxi Normal University Press. b. Thai translation, 2008, The Midnight University, Midnight Text #1665. 2002 “State Power, Global Power” (with Stanley Aronowitz) in Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, University of Minnesota Press, xi-xxvii. 2002 “Unthinking the State: Reification, Ideology, and the State as a Social Fact” in Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, University of Minnesota Press, 247-267. Book Reviews, Interviews, and Other Academic Publications 2007, “Neoinstitutionalism” and “Nicos Poulantzas” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd edition) William A. Darity ed., Macmillan. 2007 “Legitimation”, “New Left” and “Prolitarianization” in Class in America: An Encyclopedia, Robert E. Weir ed., Greenwood Press. 2006 review of Henri Lefebvre’s Rythmanalysis in New Political Science, Vol. 28 #1, 143- 146. 2 Peter Bratsis 2003 review of Nicos Poulantzas’s State, Power, Socialism in Constellations, Vol. 10 #1, 145- 148. 2003 “The Constitution of the Greek Americans,” Discussion Paper #9, The Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, 24pp. 2003 “Corrupt Compared to What? Greece, Capitalist Interests and the Specular Purity of the State,” Discussion Paper #8, The Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics, 56pp. 2000 “Found Subject: Asterios Matakos” (with Heather Gautney), Found Object, #9, Fall, 107-118. 1997 “Globalization, Education and Intellectual Production in Greece: An Interview with Constantine Tsoukalas” (with Nicos Alexiou), Journal of Modern Hellenism, #14, Winter, 39-51. Newspaper, Magazine, and News Service Articles 2012 “The Greek Elections and the Future of John Maynard Keynes”, Truthout, June. a. Spanish translation, Revista Sin Permiso 2012 “Will Greece Be Ruled by the Bankers or Its People?”, Truthout, March. a. Republished in International Journal of Radical Critique Vol. 1 No. 2. b. Portuguese translation, RevistaPittacos.org c. Spanish translation, stasisgrecia.wordpress.com 2011 “Two Lefts”, The Point: A Journal of Ideas, December. 2011 “Class Struggle in Britain: Notes from London”, The Indypendent, #163, April. 2011 “Conflict, Fantasy and Frances Fox Piven in American Life”, Truthout, January. 2010 “Viagra for an Impotent America”, The Indypendent, #157, October. WORKS IN PROGRESS AND UNDER REVIEW: “Capitalism and the State in Greece: De Te Fabula Narratur!,” for edited book on political theory and the Greek crisis. Essay “Twenty Years of Boredom: Veganism and the Cultural Logic of Late Liberalism,” for journal Situations. Monograph on political corruption, working title An Anatomy of Corruption, will be completed in the upcoming year. Essay drawing upon the ideas of Norbert Elias to address the political crisis in Europe, working title ‘Civilization Gone Awry: The European Turn Toward Barbarism’, should be completed in the upcoming year. PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: 3 Peter Bratsis Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Political Theory (2006-2012, tenured from 2007) School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Salford Adjunct Associate Professor (2005) Department of Political Science Long Island University, Brooklyn Adjunct Assistant Professor (2005) Department of Political Science Fordham University Adjunct Assistant Professor (2003-5) Departments of Political Science and Sociology Queens, City, Hunter and Brooklyn Colleges, CUNY Senior Research Fellow (2002-3) Hellenic Observatory European Institute London School of Economics and Political Science Teaching Fellow (2001-2) Department of Government John Jay College, CUNY Adjunct Lecturer (1997-2001) Departments of Political Science and Liberal Studies Brooklyn, Queens, Lehman & City Colleges, CUNY Teaching Fellow (1993-7) Department of Political Science Brooklyn College, CUNY ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS: 2008 Symposium Grant (£750) Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 2002 Research Fellowship Hellenic Observatory, European Institute London School of Economics and Political Science 2001 The Ivo Duchacek Award (for best paper published in a peer-reviewed journal by a graduate student in political science) 2000 Research Grant ($2000) Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Queens College, CUNY 1999-2000 Departmental Fellowship 4 Peter Bratsis Ph.D. Program in Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY 1993-1997 Teaching Fellowship Ph.D. Program in Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY 1992-1993 University Fellowship Ph.D. Program in Political Science Graduate Center, CUNY CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS: 2012 “The Greek Crisis, Capitalism, and the State,” The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. 2012 “Authoritarian Statism and the Limits of Protest,” Left Forum, Pace University. 2011 “Dan Georgakas as Organic Intellectual of the Working Class” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, New York University. 2011 “The New Politics of Corruption: From the White Man’s Burden to the Relative Autonomy of the State,” International Studies Association, Montreal. 2011 “Badiou’s Event: Who’s Afraid of Fidelity and Truth?,” Left Forum, Pace University. 2011 “Learning from the Tea Party,” Left Forum, Pace University. 2010 Debating the Greek Crisis, Birkbeck College, University of London. 2009 Weeklong series of lectures on state theory, University of Buenos Aires. 2009 “Miliband Beyond Miliband,” The State in Capitalist Society – 40 Years On, Leeds Metropolitan University. 2009 “Twenty Years of Boredom: Culture and Politics Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall,” Left Forum, Pace University. 2008 “Toward a Marxist Theory of Political Corruption,” Historical Materialism Annual Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 2008 “Historical Conjunctures and Political Possibilities: May ‘68 through Lefebvre and Castoriadis,” May ’68: Toward the Naming of the ‘Event’, University of Salford. 2008 “Against Transparency: Relative Autonomy and the Homoginization of State Forms in the Age of Globalization” Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University. 2008 “The Antinomies of Political Corruption: