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About Geoffrey Gordon
Geoffrey Gordon holds a PhD in political science from the University of Virginia. He wrote a dissertation about the politics of guardian democracies, in which militaries share power with elected governments, over the long term, focusing on Turkey. His research interests include civil-military relations, critical political economy, political regimes, state theory, and anti-racist and post-colonial approaches to political science research.NBN Episodes hosted by Geoffrey:
April 30, 2025
Governing Financialization
One of the most distinctive aspects of global capitalism in the last half century or so has been the increased role of the financial sector in the glo…
March 15, 2025
Pacification
Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025). For more than two decades, Neocle…
November 24, 2024
Infrastructure, Development, and Racialization
International development projects supported by governments of wealthy countries, international financial institutions, and influential NGOs like the …
November 18, 2024
Fictions of Financialization
Since the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the role of the financial sector in contemporary capitalism has come under increasing scrutiny. …
November 2, 2024
Crude Capitalism
Oil is everywhere. It’s in our cars, it’s in the fertilizer used to grow our food, and it’s in the plastics used to produce and transport our consumer…
October 13, 2024
Apartheid Remains
Over the course of the 20th century, the South African state attempted to construct a “White Man’s Country” on the African continent using the biopoli…
September 29, 2024
Democracy and Empire
In scholarly and popular discourse, popular sovereignty and self-determination are typically conceived of as the antitheses of imperialism, while hist…
September 22, 2024
The Spectre of State Capitalism
After close to three decades of the hegemony of free market ideas, the state has made a big comeback as an economic actor since the 2008 financial cri…
September 7, 2024
Revolutionary Warfare
The Algerian War of Independence constituted a major turning point of 20th century history. The conflict exacerbated divisions in French society, culm…
July 9, 2024
Human Capital
When Americans and other citizens of advanced capitalist countries think of humanitarianism, they think of charitable efforts to help people displaced…
June 30, 2024
Race, Social Reproduction, and Capitalist Totality
We live in a historical conjuncture characterized by the rise of a range of social movements that aim to challenge different forms of domination: capi…
June 8, 2024
The Double Shift
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery – working harder, doin…
May 25, 2024
After Positivism
The scientific method that aspiring social scientists are taught in graduate school seems pretty straightforward: you start with a hypothesis, figure …
December 28, 2022
Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations
Western interpretations of the Ottoman age of reform and the Turkish Republic often evaluate these histories against an idealized, essentialized narra…
November 14, 2022
Spatializing Authoritarianism
How do authoritarian political leaders use the built environment to shape understandings of national identity and history? How do major urban developm…
October 27, 2022
The Age of Counter-Revolution
The last two decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of protests for far-reaching social change around the world – from the Arab Spring and Occ…
February 21, 2022
Towards an Improper Politics
Historically, discourses of racial, civilizational, and sexual difference have inevitably been entangled with, shaped by, and constitutive of institut…
February 4, 2022
Making Constituencies
The common-sense way of thinking about what representatives should do in democracies tends to revolve around the concept of responsiveness: representa…
March 29, 2021
Trouble of the World
The middle decades of the 19th century witnessed the expansion of slavery and white settlement and dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Missi…
January 29, 2021
From Development to Dictatorship
How do ideologies of development shape the perceptions of security threats of US foreign policymakers and the political and military leaders of develo…
November 20, 2020
On Borders
When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as …
September 14, 2020
Resource Radicals
In 2007, Ecuador joined the Latin American “Pink Tide” by electing a left-wing president, Rafael Correa, who voiced opposition to US imperialism and a…
September 1, 2020
Money, Markets, and Monarchies
When most Westerners think of the Gulf, the first thing that comes to mind is often oil. However, as Adam Hanieh demonstrates in Money, Markets, and M…
June 19, 2020
Anatomies of Revolution
The success of populist politicians and the emergence of social justice movements around the world, and the recent demonstrations against police viole…