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Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Ronnie D. Lipschutz   
Ronnie D. Lipschutz
    Title:  Professor of Politics
    Email:  rlipsch@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-3275 Office
(831) 459-3125 Fax
    Office:  234 Crown College
    Office Hours:  Spring 2010 only

Research Focus 
Professor Lipschutz' current research interests are rather diverse, but they tend to focus on the sources and processes of social change in contemporary political collectivities under conditions of what is often called "globalization." Within this broad context, he is studying the constitution and fragmentation of old and new political units and movements (states, social movements, non-governmental organizations, civil society) in the areas of environment, security and identity (see the list of his recent publications). A key question of interest--albeit hardly a new one--is how to create non-aggressive collective political association and action when markets foster and privilege, individualism and atomization?

Selected Publications 
Regulation for the Rest of Us? Globalization, Governmentality, and Global Politics, (with James K. Rowe), London: Routledge, 2005.

Global Politics Because People Matter, (Mary Ann TÈtreault, co-author) Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

"Global Civil Society and Global Governmentality: Or, the Search for Politics and the State amidst the Capillaries of Power," in: Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall, eds., Power and Global Governance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005

"Imitations of Empire," Global Environmental Politics 4, No. 2 (May 2004): 20-23.

"Sweating It Out: NGO Campaigns and Trade Union Empowerment," Development in Practice 14, No.1-2 (February 2004): 197-209 .

"Constituting Political Community: Globalization, Citizenship and Human Rights," in: Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, eds., People Out of Place--Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap, New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. 29-52.

Global Environmental Politics: Power, Perspectives, and Practice, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2003.

"Aliens, Alien Nations, and Alienation in American Political Economy and Popular Culture," in: Jutta Weldes, ed., To Seek Out New Worlds, London: Palgrave, 2003, pp. 79-98.

"Theorizing Global Political Economy Because People Matter," in: Mary Ann Tetreault and Robin Teske, eds., Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community and Power. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 2003, pp.141-60.

"The Clash of Governmentalities: The Fall of the UN Republic and America's Reach for Imperium," Contemporary Security Policy 23, No. 2 (Dec. 2002): 214-31.

Courses Taught 
POLI-160A-01 - International Politics
POLI-190X-01 - Global Capital and Capitalism

Education History 
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987