Bob jessop marxism and education

In this wide-ranging interview, Bob Jessop discusses the development of, and many of the main themes in, his work over the last fifty years.

I am delivering an MA course on Capitalism and Crisis in together with a doctoral training programmes on Gramsci and two master classes on Karl Marx and.

To begin a book on key sociological thinkers with Marx is paradoxical.

Another Marxist theoretician,.

Marxist Approaches to Power Bob Jessop Published as Chapter 1, 'Developments in Marxist theory' in K. Nash and A. Scott, eds, Blackwell Companion to Political.

To begin a book on key sociological thinkers with Marx is paradoxical..

Bob Jessop

British academic (born 1946)

Bob JessopFAcSS (born 3 March 1946) is a British academic who has published extensively on state theory and political economy.

He is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.

Work

Jessop's major contribution to state theory is in treating the state not as an entity but as a social relation with differential strategic effects.

The strategic-relational approach, realism and the state: From regulation theory to neoliberalism via Marx and Poulantzas, an interview with Bob Jessop.

This means that the state is not something with an essential, fixed property, such as a neutral coordinator of different social interests, an autonomous corporate actor with its own bureaucratic goals and interests, or the "executive committee of the bourgeoisie", as often described by pluralists, elitists/statists, and conventional Marxists, respectively.

Rather, what the state is essentially determined by is the nature of the wider social relations in which it is situated, especially the balance of social forces.

The state can thus be understood as follows: First, the