Dr. Peter Bratsis
Dr. Peter Bratsis
Lecturer in Political Theory
Crescent House 317
T +44 (0)161 295 6555
F +44 (0)161 295 5077
I completed my undergraduate studies in economics and political science at the University of Maryland and my doctoral studies in political science at the City University of New York. Most of my research is related to the question of the state and political power. Drawing upon Marxist political theory, especially the work of Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, Henri Lefebvre, and Louis Althusser, my research attempts to explain how the state is produced and functions. A key emphasis in my research is the necessity of going beyond economisitc and other deterministic understandings of contemporary politics. Similarly, there is also a strong focus on showing the social-historical specificity of political ideas and forms. I am currently working on a book length study of political corruption that examines how different notions of corruption have emerged and how each functions politically. I am also an editor of the journal Situations and organise an ongoing seminar series in radical political and social thought.
Supervision
Theoretically informed analyses of the state, political identities, Greek politics, American politics, globalization, and everyday life.
Current PhD students:
Modules Convened
- Introduction to Political Theory
- Theories of Power and Domination
- Political Sociology
- Geopolitics and Globalization
Selected Publications
Bratsis, P. 2010. Legitimation Crisis and the Greek Explosion, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(1).
Bratsis, P. 2006. Everyday Life and the State (Paradigm Publishers).
Bratsis, P. and S. Aronowitz. 2005. Situations Manifesto, Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination 1(1).
Bratsis, P. 2003. Over, Under, Sideways, Down, in Implicating Empire, Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney (eds.) (Basic Books).
Bratsis, P. 2003. The Construction of Corruption: Rules of Separation and Illusions of Purity in Bourgeois Societies, Social Text 77.
Bratsis, P. and S. Aronowitz (eds) 2002. Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered (University of Minnesota Press).
For more information please see my SEEK page.
External Responsibilities
- Editorial Collective member of Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination.
- Reviewer for: New Political Science; Parliamentary Affairs; History of European Ideas; European Political Science; Public Culture; Politics; Millennium; SUNY Press; Routledge.
- Social Sciences Editor, Journal of Modern Greek Studies