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Professor Mark Neocleous
Professor - Critique of Political Economy

Marie Jahoda 237

  • Politics
  • Politics and History
  • Social and Political Sciences

Summary

I am Professor of the Critique of Political Economy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, having joined ºÚÁÏÍø in 1994 in what was then a Department of Government. I am a critical theorist who focuses on questions of state and capital, especially as they pertain to police, security, and war. I also have an interest in the political imagination, especially concerning bodies, monstrosity, subjectivity, fear and death.

I am currently working on a book called The Most Beautiful Suicide.

In February 2025,  will be published with Verso.

, co-authored as part of The Anti-Security Collective, was published in July 2024 (Red Quill Books) and can be downloaded for free . The book is available in Greek translation . The book will soon be available in  Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese and French.

Recent books include  (Verso, 2022).

More detail of my research is given in the links above called 'Research' and 'Selected Publications'. The 'Selected Publications' section lists only my books. Most of my published work, including my books, is available for free on shadow libraries. Much of it is also available either here:

 

or here:

If there is a publication of mine that you can't find on those sites, email me and I'll do my best to provide it. 

Qualifications:

  • PhD Philosophy (Middlesex)
  • MSc Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck)
  • BSc Philosophy and Sociology (City)

Newest selected publications

Neocleous, M. and The Anti-Security Collective. (2024) 'The Security Abolition Manifesto'. Ottawa: Red Quill. ISSN 13: 978-1926958385

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Neocleous, M. (2022) 'The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies'. Verso Books. ISSN 10: 183976483X ISSN 13: 9781839764837

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Neocleous, M. (2021) 'A Critical Theory of Police Power'. Verso. ISSN 13: 978-1788735209

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Neocleous, MA. (2017) 'Critique de la sécurité : Accumulation capitaliste et pacification sociale'. Paris, France: Editions Eterotopia. ISSN 13: 979-1093250205

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Neocleous, MA. (2016) 'The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and 'The Enemies of All Mankind''. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. ISSN 13: 978-1-13-895515-8

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