1 CV 1. PERSONAL DETAILS Name: Neil Douglas Davidson Email address: [email protected] Current Post: Lecturer in Sociology, School of Political and Social Sciences, College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow 2. POLITICAL ACTIVITY Member of the British Socialist Workers Party, 1978-2013 and of several internal oppositions, 2007-2013. Currently a member of Revolutionary Socialism for the 21st Century (rs21) in the UK, and Respect, Independence, Socialism, Environment (RISE) and the Radical Independence Campaign (RIC) in Scotland. 3. PUBLICATIONS a. Books – Sole Author How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Abridged Edition) (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017). Nation-states: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016). We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015). Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014). How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012). This book has been published in Spanish as Transformar el mundo: revoluciones burguesas y revolución social, with an introduction by Josep Fontana (Barcelona: Ediciones Pasado y Presente, 2013). Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746 (London: Pluto Press, 2003). The Origins of Scottish Nationhood (London: Pluto Press, 2000). b. Books and Special Journal Editions – Co-edited No Problem Here: Understanding Racism in Scotland, co-edited with Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride and Satnam Virdee (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2017). 2 Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 23, nos 2-3 (2015), Special Issue: 25 Years of Revolution: Comparing Revolt and Transition from Europe 1989 to the Arab World 2014 (co-edited with Marilyn Booth). The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology, co- edited with Alexander Anievas, Adam Fabry and Richard Saul (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014). Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation, co-edited with Patricia McCafferty and David Miller (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism: Selected Writings, 1953-1974, co-edited with Paul Blackledge, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2008). This work has been translated into Mandarin. c. Books – Sole Editor 1 Doğan Göçmen, The Adam Smith Problem: Human Nature and Society in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations (London: I. B. Tauris Academic Studies, 2007). d. Refereed Journal Articles “Neoliberalism and the Far-Right: A Contradictory Embrace”, Critical Sociology, vol. 43, no. 4-5 (July 2017): 707-724 (first published on-line 24 October). ‘Crisis Neoliberalism and Regimes of Permanent Exception’, Critical Sociology, vol. 43, no. 4-5 (July 2017): 615-634 (first published on-line 4 August 2016). “Scotland, Catalonia and the ‘Right’ to Self-Determination: A Comment Suggested by Kathryn Crameri’s ‘Do Catalans Have the Right to Decide?’” Global Discourse, vol. 6, no. 3 (2016): 440-449 (first published on-line on 15 July); reprinted in Contending Legitimacy in World Politics: The State, Civil Society and the International Sphere in the Twenty-first Century, edited by Bronwyn Winter and Lucia Sorbera (London: Routledge, 2017). “Debating the Nature of Capitalism: An Engagement with Geoffrey Hodgson”, Competition and Change, vol. 20, no. 3 (June 2016): 204–218. “Is Social Revolution Still Possible in the Twenty-first Century?” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 23, nos 2-3 (2015), Special Issue: 25 Years of Revolution: Comparing Revolt and Transition from Europe 1989 to the Arab World 2014: 105-150. “Racism: from the Labour Movement to the Far-right” (co-written with Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride and Satnam Virdee), Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 38, no. 3 (2015): 446-451. “A Scottish Watershed”, New Left Review II/89 (September/October 2014): 5-26. “A Comment on British Imperial Decline and the Conditions of Emergence for Scottish Nationalism: Reply to Callum McCormick ”, Global Discourse, vol. 3, no. 3 1 (2013): 115-119; reprinted in in The Crisis of the Twenty-First Century: Empire in the Age of Austerity, edited by Russell Foster, Matthew Johnson and Mark Edward (London: Routledge, 2014). “The Necessity of Multiple Nation-states for Capital”, Rethinking Marxism, vol. 24, no. 1, special issue: Marxism and Nationalism (January 2012): 26-46. “The American Civil War Considered as a Bourgeois Revolution”, Historical Materialism, vol. 19, no. 4 (2011): 45-91. “Gramsci’s Reception in Scotland”, Scottish Labour History 45 (2010): 37-58; republished in Bella Caledonia http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2017/04/10/antonio- gramscis-reception-in-scotland/ (posted 19 April 2017). “Scotland: Birthplace of Passive Revolution?” Capital and Class, vol. 34, no. 3 (October 2010): 343-359. “Putting the Nation back into ‘the International’”, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 22, no. 1 (March 2009): 9-28. “How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? Continued.” Historical Materialism, vol. 13, no. 4 (2005): 3-54. “How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?” Historical Materialism, vol. 13, no. 3 (2005): 3-38. “The Scottish Path to Capitalist Agriculture 3: the Enlightenment as the Theory and Practice of Improvement”, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 2005): 1-72. “Popular Insurgency during the Glorious Revolution in Scotland”, Scottish Labour History 39 (2004): 14-31. “The Scottish Path to Capitalist Agriculture 2: the Capitalist Offensive (1747- 1815)” Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 4, no. 4 (October 2004): 411-460. “The Scottish Path to Capitalist Agriculture 1: from the Crisis of Feudalism to the Origins of Agrarian Transformation (1688-1746)”, Journal of Agrarian Change, vol. 4, no. 3 (July 2004): 227-268. “Stalinism, ‘Nation Theory’ and Scottish History: a Reply to John Foster”, Historical Materialism, vol. 10, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 195-222. “Marx and Engels on the Scottish Highlands”, Science and Society, vol. 65, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 286-326. e. Articles in Books “Neoliberal Regimes, the Far-right and the Implications for Capital”, in David Miller, Lucy Brown, William Dinan and Ludek Stavinoha (eds), Researching the Powerful: Sociology in Action (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018). “Introduction: Understanding Racism in Scotland” (with Satnam Virdee), in No 4 Problem Here: Understanding Racism in Scotland, co-edited with Minna Liinpää, Maureen McBride and Satnam Virdee (Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2017): 9-12. “The Conditions for the Emergence of Uneven and Combined Development”, in Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development in the Longue Durée, edited by Alexander Anievas and Kamran Matin (London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016): 31-52. “The Public Memoirs and Confessions of an Unconscious Weberian”, in Nation- states: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016). “Preface”, in Nation-states: Consciousness and Competition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2016): ix-xxvii. “Between Two Referendums”, in Gregor Gall (ed) Is There a Scottish Road to Socialism? (Third edition, Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, 2016): 75-85. “Afterword: We Cannot Escape History” ”, in We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015): 233-242. “Preface”, in We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015): ix-xxiii. “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Lost Sociology”, in Alex Law and Eric R. Lybeck (eds), Sociological Amnesia: Cross-currents in Disciplinary History (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015): 159-179. “The Scottish Pre-industrial Urban Crowd and the Riots Against the Treaty of Union, 1705-1707”, in Keith Flett (ed), A History of Riots (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015): 77-120. “The First World War, Classical Marxism and the End of the Bourgeois Revolution in Europe”, in Alexander Anievas (ed), Cataclysm 1914: the First World War and the Making of Modern World Politics (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015): 302-365. “The Far-right and the ‘Needs of Capital’,” in The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014): 129-152. “The Longue Durée of the Far- Right: an Introduction” (with Alexander Anievas, Adam Fabry and Richard Saul), in The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology (London: Routledge, 2014): 1-20. “Preface”, in Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014): ix-xiv. “Right-Wing Social Movements: the Political Indeterminacy of Social Mobilization”, in Colin Barker, Lawrence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (eds), Marxism and Social Movements (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2013): 277-297. “What is Scottish Independence for?”, in Gregor Gall (ed), Scotland’s Road to Socialism: Time to Choose (Glasgow: Scottish Left Review Press, 2013): 48-54. “Alasdair MacIntyre and Trotskyism”, in Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight (eds), Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism (Indiana: 5 University of Notre Dame Press, 2011): 152-176. “Many Capitals, Many States: Logic, Contingency or Mediation?” In Alexander Anievas (ed), Marxism and World Politics: Challenging Global Capitalism (London: Routledge, 2010): 77-93. “Introduction”, in Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty and David Miller (eds), Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), ix-xxii. “What was Neoliberalism?” In Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty