Knowledge Commons | John Welsh | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/welshentag/activity/ Activity feed for John Welsh. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:25:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5b1816e175f4727fd08cbead3b831ce6 John Welsh deposited The 'European Super League' Debacle: Why Regulation of Corporate Football is Essential https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784900/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:24:27 -0400 On 18 April 2021, 12 European football clubs collectively issued a letter of
intent to form a new European Super League. This attempted coup was
strongly opposed across English football. Afterwards, the responsible
owner-oligarchs were singled out for special criticism from pundits and
supporter organizations alike. What emerged was a focus…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fac44494d6b348eff62a88ff276c87d John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1784899/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:27:57 -0400 0 1ce14e2ef8c66cfbc782184ddd4ba752 John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708358/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:26:55 -0400 0 942b95d1fa6b33450b73097be6460d5d John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685638/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:56:38 -0400 0 a5d7fad43f0a8ca8ff730d92258a9371 John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1681893/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:30:29 -0400 0 c0d660f72a39b4729422b409e9e0f5b9 John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1669249/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:09:24 -0500 0 8d29c78b5b555c3144398459834a7755 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group World-Ecology Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637088/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:25:31 -0400 The British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]

]]> 0 8d29c78b5b555c3144398459834a7755 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637087/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:25:31 -0400 The British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]

]]> 0 56fd572726a0724a881b657093b958d8 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637086/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:25:30 -0400 The British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d87796314578201474affb67d4c2881 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637085/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:25:28 -0400 The British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5338505a33b726894481f7dbd8a3571 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637010/ Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:50:13 -0400 The British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f46288bc9ad7f7bdd44b6cca0ecac9b John Welsh uploaded the file: Policing Academics: The Arkhè of Transformation in Academic Ranking to Academic Politics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635500/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:54:55 -0400 This article attempts a properly critical and political analysis of the “police power” immanent to the form and logic of academic rankings, and which is reproduced in the extant academic literature generated around them. In contrast to the democratising claims made of rankings, this police power short-circuits the moment of democratic politics and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca66882cfdbf9d1fc0a305d0de1c6f00 John Welsh uploaded the file: Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control to Academic Politics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635498/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:49:19 -0400 Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic life via a historical juxtaposition with the nomos of the labour camp in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. The aim is to address the need to think beyond n…[Read more]

]]> 0 11a5e3ddb619d49766a691e5158ff645 John Welsh created the group Academic Politics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635493/ Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:32:54 -0400 0 f1e9712487116c8bc60691d384bc05e3 John Welsh deposited The Politics of “Parental Co-Habitation”: Austerity, Household, and the Social Evils of Dependency in the group Republicanism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635188/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:02 -0400 The household as a social formation is being assigned a renewed function in
the provision of social welfare via neoliberal austerity politics. Government inaction regarding
housing provision is forcing millions of young adults into “parental co-habitation”. In
contrast to the dominant ideological view of the family as a school of liberty thr…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f9be9dc00508c5a5894ce265a882286 John Welsh deposited The Politics of “Parental Co-Habitation”: Austerity, Household, and the Social Evils of Dependency in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635187/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:01 -0400 The household as a social formation is being assigned a renewed function in
the provision of social welfare via neoliberal austerity politics. Government inaction regarding
housing provision is forcing millions of young adults into “parental co-habitation”. In
contrast to the dominant ideological view of the family as a school of liberty thr…[Read more]

]]> 0 a643df9f7a32246adaa3b64f6af29be5 John Welsh deposited Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635186/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:01 -0400 Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the
article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic
life via a historical juxtaposition with the nomos of the labour camp in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag
Archipelago. The aim is to address the need to think beyond n…[Read more]

]]> 0 059927d1395452f0ea3cba87bf9b7d9a John Welsh deposited Policing Academics: The Arkhè of Transformation in Academic Ranking in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635184/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:00 -0400 This article attempts a properly critical and political analysis of the “police power” immanent to the form and logic of academic rankings, and which is reproduced in the extant academic literature generated around them. In contrast to the democratising claims made of rankings, this police power short-circuits the moment of democratic politics and…[Read more]

]]> 0 abd5fb7647bdb9132e9bbbc02fd982f8 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City-State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group World-Ecology Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635183/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:00 -0400 A critical analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of social relations in the British state.

]]> 0 622d4910ee23b5b9750bc0084dd4b7ed John Welsh deposited Cities, Hinterlands, and Critical Theory in the group World-Ecology Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635182/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:28:00 -0400 Review of two recent works of urban studies research in the context of critical urban theory.

]]> 0 bfef2e925153756295763211489714b1 John Welsh deposited Authoritarian Governmentality through the Global City: Contradictions in the Political Ecology of Historical Capitalism in the group World-Ecology Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635181/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:27:59 -0400 Over 30 years of strategic reconfiguration, Global Cities have proven
themselves productive of metropolitan oligarchies of various hues
that dominate the territories of their respective states. Set against
the ‘ecological contradictions’ of historical capitalism, the article
presents the Global City formation as a historically particular pos…[Read more]

]]> 0 00cc29aebfb540728beda9c99bcecc30 John Welsh deposited The Shadow: Alter-Visibility in an Empire of the Seen in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635162/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:25:32 -0400 The article interrogates the concept of Multitude in capitalist society and challenges the simple notion of social exclusion as an operative force in contemporary social formations and their spatial dispositions. The Shadow will be offered as a spatial and psychosocial relational horizon of differentiation systemically inscribed into the social…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea2518ae929f9be6970d05b0a565a2cf John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634822/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:09:28 -0400 0 4fcf98f3f7d012a6207cc6a52f6393fc John Welsh deposited The Shadow: Alter-Visibility in an Empire of the Seen https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634820/ Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:06:07 -0400 The article interrogates the concept of Multitude in capitalist society and challenges the simple notion of social exclusion as an operative force in contemporary social formations and their spatial dispositions. The Shadow will be offered as a spatial and psychosocial relational horizon of differentiation systemically inscribed into the social…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b33a235928f64990cb0e272af5bce41 John Welsh deposited The Politics of “Parental Co-Habitation”: Austerity, Household, and the Social Evils of Dependency https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634742/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:07:20 -0400 The household as a social formation is being assigned a renewed function in
the provision of social welfare via neoliberal austerity politics. Government inaction regarding
housing provision is forcing millions of young adults into “parental co-habitation”. In
contrast to the dominant ideological view of the family as a school of liberty thr…[Read more]

]]> 0 d31abc4581d9e133f561b560603d1a2d John Welsh deposited Governing Academics: The Historical Transformation from Discipline to Control https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634741/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:02:45 -0400 Given the transformation in the government of academic life over recent decades, the
article attempts to derive a political critique of the changing psychosocial conditions of academic
life via a historical juxtaposition with the nomos of the labour camp in Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag
Archipelago. The aim is to address the need to think beyond n…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c4928d968b80c90bcc26025ecf08935 John Welsh deposited Policing Academics: The Arkhè of Transformation in Academic Ranking https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634738/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:58:36 -0400 This article attempts a properly critical and political analysis of the “police power” immanent to the form and logic of academic rankings, and which is reproduced in the extant academic literature generated around them. In contrast to the democratising claims made of rankings, this police power short-circuits the moment of democratic politics and…[Read more]

]]> 0 308754d7563a42f0953188b0cf4ecfc5 John Welsh deposited Three sump concepts: an exhortation to critical social scientists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634725/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:05:55 -0400 Do we not find that the repetitive deployment of certain phrases
and words in academic language entails a conceptualisation of
meaning into objects that are thereafter encountered daily not as
thoughts or ideas but merely as a socio-cultural force? Is it not
necessary to identify and illuminate them, and to contrive some
sort of resistance to…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a37ebf0a57bdf60094ddbc784c35259 John Welsh's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634724/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:48:47 -0400 0 d2ec355f7900ca45838981a3c6840755 John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City-State: Class Formation through the Global City https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634723/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:46:45 -0400 A critical analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of social relations in the British state.

]]> 0 b0ac8416282ab2bdd1402ec2f913d623 John Welsh deposited Cities, hinterlands, and Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634722/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:24:45 -0400 Review of two recent works of urban studies research in the context of critical urban theory.

]]> 0 4e59f3b55c0a077ae0a4ce7ea8c893ee John Welsh deposited Authoritarian Governmentality through the Global City: Contradictions in the Political Ecology of Historical Capitalism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634720/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 14:40:27 -0400 Over 30 years of strategic reconfiguration, Global Cities have proven
themselves productive of metropolitan oligarchies of various hues
that dominate the territories of their respective states. Set against
the ‘ecological contradictions’ of historical capitalism, the article
presents the Global City formation as a historically particular pos…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea3240b9e8df041847decae8d8764b0c John Welsh deposited The Meta-Disciplinary: Capital at the Threshold of Control https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1634718/ Sun, 10 Mar 2019 14:21:07 -0400 Discipline and Punish has been the seminal text for students of the rationality of disciplinary power. In recent years, critical scholarship has become increasingly keen to move analytically beyond the normative mode of disciplinary power. As such, D&P is increasingly marginalized as a text, in favour of Foucault’s later works. In this d…[Read more]

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