Critical Perspectives
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This content includes videos, podcasts, articles, readings, and other resources to help you understand and explore the content covered in the chapter. Most readings are freely available, although anything marked with an asterisk may require institutional log-in (e.g., through your university). Freely available data sources are also included to explore and further research.
Videos
- See Lecture Videos
- Ricard D. Wolff videos on Marxism:
- Understanding Marxism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-AkeOyiOQ
- What is Marxism?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaazUBqWzI
- Neo-Marxism Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qo5wIuJqSg
- Thoms Piketty, “the long-run economics of wealth inequality”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouhJrEcrCzQ
- Lecture on constructivism by Michael Rossi, Rutgers University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WLJc9JYbsE
- Lecture by Dr. Kimberly Hutchings on feminism and IR theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajAWGztPUiU
- SOAS Panel discussion on PE for climate change and development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzqDMCX5qoM
Podcasts
- David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles podcast: https://davidharvey.org/2023/06/new-podcast-david-harveys-anti-capitalist-chronicles/
- Socialist Correspondent podcast: https://www.thesocialistcorrespondent.org.uk/articles/podcasts-from-the-socialist-correspondent/
- Revolutionary ideas podcast (exploring Marxist theory and practice through conversations with social activists): https://open.spotify.com/show/5FhTqNhHspPxln4ovQbpVK
- “Masaha podcast” from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Political Feminism Programme (activists and women’s rights defenders discuss arising social, economic and environmental issues): https://feminism-mena.fes.de/podcast.html
- Ecopolitics Podcast (conversations with professors, policy makers, and practitioners about the state of environmental politics in Canada and around the world): https://www.ecopoliticspodcast.ca/
- Yale Center for Industrial Ecology podcast, https://cie.research.yale.edu/podcast
Readings
- Intuitive explanations of Marxism, see:
- Wolff, Understanding Marxism, Democracy at Work 2019: https://www.democracyatwork.info/understanding_marxism
- Felluga, Dino. “Modules on Marx: On Ideology.” Introductory Guide to Critical Theory. 2015. Purdue U. Accessed Feb 24, 2025: http://www.purdue.edu/guidetotheory/marxism/modules/marxideology.html
- Peter Boyle, Introduction to Marxism, Resistance Books 2019: https://www.resistancebooks.com/product/introduction-to-marxism/
- Gramsci:
- Review of Gramsci’s life and work (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gramsci/
- Constructivism:
- Constructivism, short explanation (Sarina Theys, “Introducing Constructivism in International Relations Theory”): https://www.e-ir.info/2018/02/23/introducing-constructivism-in-international-relations-theory/
- “Constructivism in International Relations” (International Affairs Forum): https://www.ia-forum.org/Content/ViewInternal_Document.cfm?contenttype_id=5&ContentID=8773
- Feminism:
- WILPF guide to feminist PE: https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WILPF_Feminist-Political-Economy-Guide.pdf
- Environment/Climate Change:
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Environment in the GPE (Peter Haas):
- https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.67
- Climate change, UN overview: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change
- Environmental rule of law (UNEP): https://www.unep.org/resources/publication/environmental-rule-law-tracking-progress-and-charting-future-directions
- Inequality:
- Pew Research report, Trends in US inequality (2020): https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-in-income-and-wealth-inequality/
- Research and facts about inequality: https://inequality.org/
- Hasdell, What we know about universal basic income (2020, Stanford Basic Income Lab): https://basicincome.stanford.edu/uploads/Umbrella%20Review%20BI_final.pdf
Selected Sources of Free Data
Climate Change/Environment
- IPCC (climate change) portal, https://www.ipcc.ch/
- NASA temp data, https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/?intent=121
- IMF data portal on climate change, https://climatedata.imf.org/pages/climatechange-data
- Eurobarometer polls on climate change, https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/browse/all/series/2981
- Yale Climate Opinion Maps 2023, https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/ycom-us/
Income Inequality
- OECD: Income Inequality, https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/income-inequality.html
- World Inequality Database, https://wid.world/
- World Inequality Report, 2022, https://wir2022.wid.world/
Women/Gender
- Global database on Violence Against Women (UN Women): https://data.unwomen.org/global-database-on-violence-against-women
- World Bank, Gender Data Portal: https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/home
- Resources on Women’s Human Rights (Women’s Human Rights Resources Programme, Bora Laskin Law Library): https://library.law.utoronto.ca/womens-human-rights-resources-programme-whrr