Dr. William I. Robinson

Department of Sociology

University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

Email: wirobins@soc.ucsb.edu

Qualifications

1994  Ph.D., Sociology, University of New Mexico

1992  M.A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico

1981  B.A., Journalism (major) and International Studies (minor), Friends World College

Publications (selected)

1. “Clarity, Theoretical, Conceptual and Normative Commitment in the Critique of Global Capitalism,” Deliberation, Knowledge Ethnics (Erwagen, Wissen, Ethik[EWE]), In press
2. “The Transnational State and the BRICS: A Global Capitalism Perspective,” Third World Quarterly, 36(1), 2015
3. “Global Capitalism, Immigrant Labor, and the Struggle for Justice,” Class, Race, and Corporate Power, Vol. 2, Issue 3, Article 1, Fall 2014, 2014
4. “Os BRICS no Capitalismo Transnacional,” Tensoes Mund, 10(18-19):491-503, 2014
5. “The Fetishism of Empire: A Critical Review of Panitch and Gindin’s The Making of Global Capitalism,” Studies in Political Economy, 2014
6. “Policing the Global Crisis,” Journal of World-Systems Research, 19(2):193-197, 2013
7. “Global Capitalism and its Anti-‘Human Face’: Organic Intellectuals and Interpretations of the Crisis,” Globalizations, 10(5), pp. 715-727, 2013
8. “Promoting Polyarchy: Twenty Years Later,” International Relations, 2013
9. “The Great Recession’ of 2008 and the Continuing Crisis: A Global Capitalism Perspective,” The International Review of Modern Sociology, 38 (2):169-198, 2012
10. “Global Capitalism and the Emergence of Transnational Elites” Critical Sociology, 38(3):349-364, 2012
11. “Capitalist Globalization as World Historic Context: A Response”, Critical Sociology, 38(3):405-416, 2012
12. “Global Capitalism and Twenty-First Century Fascism: A U.S. Case Study”, Race and Class, Lead author, co-authored with Mario Barrera. 53(3):4-29, 2012
13. “Global Capital Leviathan,” Radical Philosophy, No 165:2-6, 2011
14. “Globalization and the Sociology of Immanuel Wallerstein: A Critical Appraisal,” International Sociology, 26(6): 723-745, 2011
15. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Cyclical, Structural, or Systemic?,” in Martinj Konings, ed., Beyond the Subprime Headlines: Critical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis, London: Verso. 2010
16. “Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State” (revised and expanded version of article appearing in 2007 in journal Societies Without Borders,” in Alexander Anievas, ed., Marxism and World Politics, London/New York: Routledge. 2010
17. “Global Capitalism, Social Science, and Methods of Critique: Response to Cammack’s ‘Forget the Transnational State’,” Geopolitics, History and International Relations, 1(2). 2009
18. “Saskia Sassen and the Sociology of Globalization: A Critical Appraisal,” Sociological Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 1: 5-29. 2009
19. “Globalizacion, Crisis, y Escenarios de Futuro,” Estudios Centroamericanos, 63(715-716):331-344. 2009
20. “Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights,” in Francsico Vazquez and Rodolfo D. Torres, Latino/a Though: Culture, Politics, and Society(2^nd Edition), Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. 2008
21. “Globalization and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights in the United States,” in Globalization: The Transformation of the Social World (2^nd Edition), Eitzen and Baca Zinn (eds.), Belmont: Wadsworth. 2008
22. “Jess Diaz and Javier Rodriguez: Undocumented in America,” Interview Essay, New Left Review, 47, Sept-Oct: 93-106. 2007
23. “The Pitfall of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Empire of Capital,” Historical Materialism, 15:71-93. 2007
24. “Beyond the Theory of Imperialism: Global Capitalism and the Transnational State,” Societies Without Borders, 2:5-26. 2007
25. “Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance,” in Lars Lindstrom, Mats Warn, and Bjorn Beckman (eds), Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press.2007
26. “A Global Perspective on Social Activism and Democracy in South Africa,” in Lars Lindstrom, Mats Warn, and Bjorn Beckman (eds), Globalization, Imperialism, and Resistance. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press. 2007
27. “Para Estudos Criticos Sobre a Globalizacao: Intelectuais Organicos e a Luta por Justica Global< in Marco Aurelio Machado de Oliveira, Sobre Humanidades. Campo Grande: Editora UMFS.2007
28. “Transformative Possibilities in Latin America,” Socialist Review, London: Merlin Press. 2007
29. “Theories of Globalization,” in George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Globalization. London: Blackwell. 2007
30. “Reification and Theoreticism in the Study of Globalization, Imperialism, and Hegemony: A Comment on Kiely, Pozo, and Valladao,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 19(3). 2006
31. “Aqui Estamos y no Nos Vamos!: Global Capitalist and the Struggle for Immigrant Rights,” Race and Class. 48(2). 2006
32. “Critical Globalization Studies,” in Judith Blau and Kery Iyail Smith (eds.), the Public Sociologies Reader. Landham, MD: Rowman and Littlefeld. 2006
33. “Gramsci and Globalization: From Nation-State to Transnational Hegemony,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 8, No. 4:1-16. 2005
34. “Global Capitalism: The New Transnationalism and the Folly of Conventional Thinking,” Science and Society, vol. 69, no. 3, 2005