Dr Phoebe Moore
Dr Phoebe Moore
Lecturer in International Relations
Crescent House 200c
T +44 (0)161 295 6033
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Phoebe lectures in International Relations and International Political Economy, and has two interrelated research interests: international labour struggle; and post-capitalist models for socio-political economies that can resolve labour struggle, some of which are found in digital communities.
Phoebe’s second research monograph, entitled The International Political Economy of Work and Employability (Palgrave, Aug 2010) examines the effects of global shifts to a knowledge-based economy, which have led to an emergence of a new type of labour force in both the Eastern as well as Western hemispheres, with workers and the unemployed increasingly pressured to become self-managing, precarious lifelong learners. The book has attracted good reviews highlighting her expertise in her subject area as one international academic states: ‘This book provides one of the richest and most systematic comparisons of skills revolutions in three countries in the east and west. Phoebe Moore introduces brilliantly the International Political Economy of Work and Employability into the literature on employability and skills’ (Dr Joohee Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ewha Womans University, Korea). As Dr Matt Davies of Newcastle University states: ‘Phoebe Moore makes an important contribution to our understanding of the fundamental changes to International Political Economy over recent years. Her impressive analyses of education policy linked to “employability” as a means of producing forms of subjectivity that sustain neoliberal reforms even against their economic failures will be critical tools in the hands of scholars, researchers, organizers and activists. Her case studies underscore the convergences occasioned by neoliberal policies even in the contexts of diverse national and cultural experiences. This book makes a compelling case for bringing work, labour, and production “back in” to the study of International Political Economy.’
Dr Moore’s research is currently focussed on the rise of service economy and informal economy production in both the developing and the developed world, and asks how we can discuss aesthetics in labour both in the sense of personal subjectivities (which she begins to do in the final section of her Aug 2010 book), and in the aesthetics sector likewise. Phoebe took a field trip to the International Labour Organisation headquarters in Geneva in July 2010 to research the ILO’s Decent Work agenda aims, and to begin to assess to what extent these can be viewed as viable standards in specific urban spaces. She will be looking at the cosmetics industry and will be writing about whether the aims of the Decent Work agenda can be applied locally and negotiated internationally.
Supervision
- Labour, work, & industrial relations (the ‘other’ International Political Economy)
- Radical media, peer to peer production
- East Asia (development, political economy, labour, etc.)
- Turkey and accession process
Modules Convened
- Political Economy (2nd year)
- International Political Economy (3rd year, MA level)
- Radical Media and Globalisation (MA level)
Administrative Posts
- Programme Leader, MA International Relations and Globalisation
- Channel M Coordinator
- International Tutor
- UG and PG Exams Officer
Selected Publications
Moore, P. (2010). The International Political Economy of Work and Employability. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Moore, P., and O. Worth (eds) (2009). Globalisation and the New Semi-Peripheries in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Moore, P., and C. Dannreuther (2009). ‘Turkey in the World System and the New Orientalism’. In P. Moore and O. Worth (eds), Globalisation and the New Semi-Peripheries in the 21st Century, 138–158. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Moore, P. (2009). ‘UK Education, Employability, and Everyday Life’. Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies, 7(1).
Moore, P., and P.A. Taylor (2009). ‘Exploitation of the Self in Community-Based Software Production: Workers’ Freedoms or Firm Foundations?’. Capital and Class, 97: 99–120.
Moore, P. (2007). Globalisation and Labour Struggle in Asia: A Neo-Gramscian Critique of South Korea’s Political Economy. London: I.B. Tauris.
Moore, P. (2006). ‘Global Knowledge Capitalism, Self-Woven Safety Nets, and the Crisis of Employability’. Global Society, 20(4): 453–473.
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