Module POL3248 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3248: Marxism(s) and International Relations
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- globalising capital and the new international division of labour;
- a new imperialism?;
- conceptualising hegemony;
- the state system and the global circuits of capital;
- capitalist globalisation and ‘modernity’;
- challenging top-down perspectives: social reproduction in a global context;
- the ‘international’ in the 21st century.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 128 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching Activities | 22 | 11 x 2-hour seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 50 | Private study reading and preparing for seminars |
| Guided Independent Study | 78 | Preparation for essay and exam including researching and collating relevant sources; planning the structure and argument; writing up the essay |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Anievas, A. ed. Marxism and World Politics (Routledge, 2010).
Bartolovich, C. and Lazarus, N. ed. Marxism, Modernity, and Post-Colonial Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Burnham, P. ‘Neo-Gramscian Hegemony and the International Order’, Capital and Class, vol. 15, no. 3, 1991.
Burnham, P. ‘Open Marxism and Vulgar International Political Economy’, Review of International Political Economy, 1:2, 1994.
Callinicos, A. Imperialism and the Global Political Economy (Polity, 2009).
Cox, R. ‘Social Forces and World Orders: Beyond International Relations Theory’, Millennium, vol. 10, no. 2, 1981.
Cox, R. ‘Gramsci, Hegemony and International Relations: An Essay in Method’, Millennium, vol. 12, no. 2, 1983.
Harvey, D. The New Imperialism (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Hardt, M. and Negri, M. Empire (Harvard University Press, 2001).
Luxton, M. ‘Marxist Feminism and Anticapitalism: Reclaiming Our History, Reanimating Our Politics’, Studies in Political Economy, 94:1, 2014
Rupert, M. and Smith, H. Historical Materialism and Globalisation (Routledge, 2002).
