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Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age (2023)
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Creaven, S. (2023). Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437215

Contagion Capitalism situates the COVID-19 pandemic within the systems of global political economy and their attendant cultural modes and theorizes that these systems act as facilitators and drivers of global pandemic risk. Contagion Capitalism there... Read More about Contagion Capitalism: Pandemics in the Corporate Age.

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 (2023)
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Creaven, S. (2023). Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003437208

Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19 applies the tools of critical social theory to make sense of the COVID-19 crisis and presents a critical sociological analysis of aspects of the political and community response to... Read More about Modernity and the Pandemic: Decivilization, Imperialism, and COVID-19.

The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism (2023)
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Creaven, S. (2023). The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism. London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This book is to a large degree an attempt to examine the reasons for the UK government’s internationally suboptimal performance in addressing the novel coronavirus pandemic. As such, this is conceived as a work of political and social critique. The t... Read More about The Pandemic in Britain: COVID-19, British Exceptionalism and Neoliberalism.

Against the spiritual turn: Marxism, realism, and critical theory (2010)
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Creaven, S. (2010). Against the spiritual turn: Marxism, realism, and critical theory. Routledge

Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical philosophy and social theory (2007)
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Creaven, S. (2007). Emergentist Marxism: Dialectical philosophy and social theory. London and New York: Routledge

Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences (2000)
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Creaven, S. (2000). Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences. Routledge

This book rethinks Marx's sociology as a form of realist social theory, extending Roy Bhaskar's philosophical realism into the social sciences. By constructing historical materialism as realist social theory, it becomes possible to resolve many long... Read More about Marxism and Realism: A Materialistic Application of Realism in the Social Sciences.