Faculty Research
Dr. Chris O'Kane published the chapter “Law and the State in Frankfurt School Critical Theory" in Research Handbook on Law and Marxism that Paul O'Connell and Umut Özsu edited and Edward Elgar released in January 2022.
Dr. Chris O'Kane published the chapter “Totality” in The SAGE Handbook of Marxism, which SAGE released in December 2021 and was edited by B. Skeggs, S.R. Farris, A. Toscano, and S. Bromberg.
Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Dr. Sang-Jic Lee in December 2021 published “Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and Electoral Participation in the U.S. Counties: Revisiting the Inequality-Participation Nexus” in Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211059433.
In December 2021, Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada published the article “Organization and Struggle: Labour Unionism Against Authoritarian Neoliberalism” in the Catalan journal Catarsi, https://catarsimagazin.cat/organitzacio-i-combat-sindicalisme-contra-el-neoliberalisme-autoritari/.
Dr. Jake Lin published “The Cycle of Commodification: Migrant Labour, Welfare, and the Market in Global China and Vietnam” in Global Public Policy and Governance, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2021): 321-339.
In October 2021, Dr. Kirstin Munro published “Unproductive Workers and State Repression” in Review of Radical Political Economics, https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134211043284.
Dr. James Parisot published “Money, Commerce, and the History of Capitalism” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 4 (October 2021): 527-535.
On the 30th anniversary of Dr. Clyde W. Barrow’s book, Universities and the Capitalist State (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), the AAUP’s Journal of Academic Freedom in September 2021 published an interview with him entitled “Class, Politics, and Higher Education: Universities and the Capitalist State Thirty Years On.”
Dr. Dongkyu Kim published the chapter “Teach Me If You Can: Teaching Political Science Majors Statistics at a Hispanic-Serving Institution” in The Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy, which D. J. Mallinson, J. M. Hellwege, and E. D. Loepp edited and Palgrave Macmillan, Cham released in September 2021.
In September 2021, Dr. Terence M. Garrett (with co-author Arthur Sementelli) published "Lone Star Wars: LNGs, Communities and Globalization Versus Local Resistance in the Laguna Madre Region of Coastal South Texas" in the Journal of Global Responsibility, https://doi.org/10.1108/JGR-03-2021-0035.
Dr. Carla Angulo-Pasel in July 2021 published “The Politics of Temporary Protection Schemes: The Role of Mexico’s TVRH in Reproducing Precarity Among Central American Migrants” in the Journal of Politics in Latin America, https://doi.org/10.1177/1866802X211027886.
In July 2021, Dr. Michelle Keck and Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada published "Trump’s Authoritarian Neoliberal Governance and the US-Mexican Border" in Policy Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2021.1959541.
Dr. Kirstin Munro in July 2021 published “Overaccumulation, Crisis, and the Contradictions of Household Waste Sorting” in Capital & Class, https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168211029004.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Maude Marquis-Bissonnette published “Modernisation de la théorie de l’État de Bergeron grâce à une étude de cas sur les amish du vieil ordre de l’Ontario” in Politique et Sociétés, Vol. 40, No. 2 (June 2021): 27-49.
In June 2021, Dr. Charles Olney published “Crypto-Punditry and the Media Neutrality Crisis” in the Atlantic Journal of Communication, https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2021.1936525.
Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada (with co-author Umut Bozkurt) published the obituary “In Memory of Ed Rooksby” in Capital & Class, Vol. 45, No. 2 (June 2021): 333-336.
Dr. Nicholas Kiersey published the chapter “Socialist Governmentality and the Problem of the Capital Strike: A Defence of Fully Automated Luxury Communism” in the book edited by A. Fishwick and N. Kiersey, Postcapitalist Futures: Political Economy Beyond Crisis and Hope, which Pluto Press released in May 2021.
Dr. Nicholas Kiersey published the chapter “Governmentality, Authoritarianism, or Capitalist Realism? Explaining Austerity With Foucauldian Political Economy” in the book edited by J. Busse, The Globality of Governmentality: Governing an Entangled World, which Routledge released in May 2021.
In May 2021, Dr. William Sokoloff published "Edward Vidaurre and the Politics of the Cholo Strut" in New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2021.1924510.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published "Whither the Dangerous Class: Bribed Tool of Reactionary Intrigue or New Revolutionary Agent?" in New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Vol. 43, No. 2 (June 2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2021.1925832.
Dr. Chris O'Kane published "Reification and the Critical Theory of Contemporary Society" in Critical Historical Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (May 2021): 57–86.
In April 2021, Dr. Charles Olney published “Black Lives Matter and the Politics of Redemption” in Philosophy & Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211009573.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “Kant’s Foedus Pacificum: Path to Peace or Prolegomena to Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Corporatist Globalization in Contemporary Liberal Democratic States?” in Annales. Ethics in Economic Life, Vol. 23, No. 2 (April 2021): 7-20.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published “Globalization and the Emergence of the Fortress State” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 2 (March 2021): 170-177.
Dr. Kirstin Munro published “The Welfare State and the Bourgeois Family-Household” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 2 (March 2021): 199-206.
Dr. Chris O’Kane published “Critical Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: An Immanent Critique of Nancy Fraser's ‘Systematic’ ‘Crisis-Critique’ of Capitalism as an ‘Institutionalized Social Order’” in Science & Society, Vol. 85, No. 2 (March 2021): 207-235.
In February 2021, Dr. Kirstin Munro and Dr. Chris O’Kane published “The Artisan Economy and the New Spirit of Capitalism” in Critical Sociology, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920521991195.
Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely in February 2021 published “Data on Race, Inequality, and Social Capital in the U.S. Counties” in Data in Brief, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.106717.
In December 2020, Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada (with co-author Olatz Ribera-Almandoz) published the article “Health Movements in the Age of Austerity: Rescaling Resistance in Spain and the United Kingdom” in Critical Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1856333.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow's latest book The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat was just published in November 2020 by the University of Michigan Press. Barrow argues that recent discussions about the downward spiral of the American white working class have reactivated the concept of the lumpenproletariat as a category of political analysis necessary to understanding the rise and appeal of right-wing populism in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “Border Security and Immigration Policy Management in South Texas by the Numbers: Perception, Stories and the Knowledge Analytic” in Public Voices, Vol. 17, No. 1 (October 2020): 4-20.
Dr. Clyde W. Barrow published "A Bribed Tool of Reactionary Intrigue: Black Panther Ideology and the Rise of a White Lumpenproletariat" in New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Vol. 42, No. 3 (September 2020): 435-442.
In September 2020, Dr. Kirstin Munro published “Solid Waste Management Practices and Their Meanings in Ecologically Conscious Households” in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620960410.
In September 2020, Dr. Chris O’Kane published “Capital, the State, and Economic Policy: Bringing Open Marxist Critical Political Economy Back into Contemporary Heterodox Economics” in Review of Radical Political Economics, https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613420940806.
Dr. Andrew M. Song, Dr. Owen Temby, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, and Dr. Gordon M. Hickey in September 2020 published “Assessing the Influence of International Environmental Treaty Secretariats Using a Relational Network Approach” in Earth System Governance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2020.100076.
In September 2020, Dr. Mi-son Kim, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, and Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely published “Race, Inequality, and Social Capital in the U.S. Counties” in The Social Science Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/03623319.2020.1799178.
In August 2020, Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Dr. Natasha Altema McNeely published “A Comparative Analysis of the Attitudes Toward the U.S.-Mexico Border Policy: Evaluating Perspectives on Border Security and Building a Wall in the Rio Grande Valley, National Hispanic and General U.S. Populations” in the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739986320953803.
Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada (with co-authors Nikolai Huke, David J. Bailey, and Olatz Ribera-Almandoz) published “Struggle, Resistance and Disruption in Austerity Europe” in The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies, which Routledge released in June 2020 and was edited by S. A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara C. Motta, and Barry K. Gills.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon published “Immigration Policy in Québec‐Canada as a Case Study of Incrementalism” in Canadian Public Administration/Administration publique du Canada, Vol. 63, No. 2 (June 2020): 247-270.
Dr. Dongkyu Kim, Dr. Mi-son Kim, and Cesar Villegas, a graduate student in our department, published “Organized Labor Strikes and Social Spending in Latin America: The Synchronizing Effect of Mass Protest” in Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 62, No. 2 (May 2020): 99-109.
Dr. Charles Olney in May 2020 published “A New Metaphysics: Eternal Recurrence and the Univocity of Difference” in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2020): 179-200.
In May 2020, Dr. Andrew H. Smith published “The Effect of Ideology and Resource Advantages on Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court” in the Justice System Journal, DOI: 10.1080/0098261X.2020.1758978.
In April 2020, Dr. Terence M. Garrett published “COVID-19, Wall Building, and the Effects on Migrant Protection Protocols by the Trump Administration: The Spectacle of the Worsening Human Rights Disaster on the Mexico-U.S. Border” in Administrative Theory & Praxis, DOI:10.1080/10841806.2020.1750212.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett in April 2020 published the article “The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra: The Effects of Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy on Migrants and Refugees in the Rio Grande Valley” in Politics & Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12348.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon, Filip Palda, and Katarzyna Sepielak published “Political Parties and Women’s Success in Municipal Elections in 2005 in Montérégie and Montréal (Québec, Canada)” in American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 49, No. 4 (2019): 497-510. This article was published online in March 2020 at DOI: 10.1080/02722011.2019.1714678.
Dr. Alexandre Couture Gagnon and Diane Saint-Pierre in February 2020 published “Identity, Nationalism, and Cultural and Linguistic Policies in Québec” in The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, DOI: 10.1080/10632921.2020.1720878.
Dr. Mònica Clua-Losada along with others published in February 2020 the article “Anti-Austerity Between Militant Materialism and Real Democracy: Exploring Pragmatic Prefigurativism” in Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1722493.
Dr. Terence M. Garrett and Paul J. Pope published the chapter “Border Walls, DREAMers and Trump: Politics, Policy and the Banality of Evil” in Fresh Studies in Rio Grande Valley History, edited by M. Kearney, A. Knopp, A. Zavaleta, and T. D. Knight. This book was published in February 2020 by Texas Southmost College.