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Mooers, Colin

Colin Mooers

Professor Emeritus
EducationPhD (Social and Political Thought): York (Can.)

Spoken Languages

English, Spanish

Biography

Dr. Mooers is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, which he served as Chair from 2001 to 2006, and as Interim Chair in 2011/12. A member of the Yeates School of Graduate Studies, he is also affiliated to the York-Ryerson Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, which he served as Graduate Director for the Ryerson MA and PhD programs from 2006 to 2011.

In addition to a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University (Canada), Professor Mooers holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours-Philosophy) from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Arts (Philosophy) from the University of Toronto).

  • The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire (as contributing editor). Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.
    • “Introduction: The New Watchdogs.” In The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire, ed. Colin Mooers, 1-8.  Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.
    • “Nostalgia for Empire: Revising Imperial History for American Power.”  In The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire, ed. Colin Mooers, 111-135.  Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.
  • “Multiculturalism and the Fetishism of Difference.” Socialist Studies 1:2 (December 2005).
  • “Beyond Civil Society: Citizenship and Class in an Age of Globalization.” (manuscript under preparation).
  • “Multiculturalism and Citizenship: Some Theoretical Reflections.” Working Paper Series of the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS) – Toronto. Working Paper 37 (March 2005).
  • "What's Left After the Cultural Turn." Review Essay. Historical Materialism 11:3 (2003): 215-224.
  • "Dialectics at a Standstill: The Art of David Mabb." In The Factory as it Might Be or the Hall of Flowers, curated by James Patten. Windsor: Art Gallery of Windsor, 2003.
  • "The New Fetishism: Citizenship and Finance Capital." Studies in Political Economy 66 (Fall 2001): 59-84.
  • Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in the Age of Global Capitalism (co-edited with Mike Burke and John Shields). Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2000.
  • "Beyond Left and Right? The Self-Limiting Politics of the Third Way.” In Restructuring and Resistance: Canadian Public Policy in the Age of Global Capitalism, ed. Mike Burke, Colin Mooers and John Shields, 318-337. Halifax, N.S.: Fernwood Publishing, 2000.
  • "Can We Still Resist? Globalization, Citizenship Rights and Class Formation." In Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society, ed. David Broad and Wayne Anthony, 285-298. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1999.
  • "Theories of Revolution in Light of 1989 in Eastern Europe” (with Colin Barker). Cultural Dynamics 9:1 (March 1997): 17-43.
  • "The Politics of Hegemony: Democracy, Class and Social Movements" (with Alan Sears). Transformation: Marxist Boundary Work in Theory, Economics, Politics and Culture 1 (Spring 1995): 216-242.
  • "The New Social Movements and the Withering Away of State Theory," (with Alan Sears). In Organizing Dissent: Theory and Practice of the New Social Movements, ed. William K. Caroll, 52-68. Toronto: Garamond Press, 1992.
  • The Making of Bourgeois Europe: Absolutism, Revolution and the Rise of Capitalism in England, France and Germany. London: Verso, 1991. Published in Turkish as Burjuva Avrupa'nin Kurulu. Translated by Bahadir Sina Sener. Ankara: Dost Kitabevi, 1997, 2000.

Colin's areas of research and publishing include: the political economy of capitalism, political theory, social movements, theories of citizenship, and the public sphere.