Dr Peter Wilkin
Reader - Comms, Media & Cultural Studies

Research area(s)

 I have published articles in major academic journals (and monographs) in the following subject areas:

• Political economy and Globalisation
• World-Systems Analysis
• Security and Development
• Philosophy of social science
• Anarchist social thought
• Media, social change and democracy
• Hungary in the Modern World-System
• Critical Realism
• Social movements and protests
• Design practices and everyday life
• The work of Noam Chomsky
• Popular Culture and social criticism

Research Interests

Current Research

Articles

1. Watch your Step: World-Systems Analysis as Critical Social Science - under review Journal of World-Systems Research.
2. How to enjoy a Free Lunch: The Student debt crisis – to be submitted to Critical Sociology 2025.
3. The Mask has Slipped: The (Geo) culture wars and the war for civilization - to be submitted to the Journal of World-Systems Research, December 2024.
4. Murder Incorporated:  Debt and mass killing in sub-Saharan Africa - to be submitted to Third World Quarterly 2025.

Books

1. Till Debt us do part: The Student debt crisis and the new anti-Enlightenment in the UK and the USA, Bloomsbury Press, 2027.
2. Murder Incorporated: The West’s War against the Third World, Forthcoming 2027.

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