Academics
Ian Bruff, BA, MA, PhD (all University of Leeds)
Email I.J.Bruff@lboro.ac.uk |
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Biography
I studied for all of my degrees at the University of Leeds (1996-2005), before commencing a postdoctoral fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. After returning to the UK I worked at a number of universities before joining Loughborough in February 2012. I have been the Chair of the Critical Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological Association since 2009, and since 2010 have been on the Steering Committee for the Standing Group on International Relations of the European Consortium for Political Research. Moreover, I recently joined the editorial team for the Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, which encompasses RIPE Series in Global Political Economy and RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy, and from 2012-14 I will be the Chair of the Book Prize panel of judges for the International Political Economy working group of the British International Studies Association.
I am a member of various associations and networks connected to Comparative and International Political Economy, Antonio Gramsci's work, and historical materialism.
Research interests and projects
I am a research-active scholar who has published in internationally-renowned book series and highly-ranked journals through my work on varieties of capitalism and critical theories of International Political Economy. My expertise encompasses a wide range of theoretical and empirical topics - principally, capitalism and its uneven development in an era of 'globalisation', theories of International Relations, state and society, and the evolution of European political economies (via comparative work at both the national and the EU level). My approach is influenced by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the sociology of knowledge plus those of other critical theorists.
I am currently researching the political economy of neoliberalism in Europe.
Books
Bruff, I. (2008) Culture and Consensus in European Varieties of Capitalism: A ‘Common Sense’ Analysis. (Palgrave). Shortlisted for the 2008 Book Prize awarded by the International Political Economy Group (IPEG) of the British International Studies Association (BISA), and IPEG’s 2009 nomination for the BISA Susan Strange Book Prize.
Edited collections
Bruff, I. & M. Ebenau (2013) ‘Special issue on the diversity of contemporary capitalism(s)’. Capital & Class, forthcoming.
Bruff, I., M. Ebenau, C. May & A. Nölke (2012) Kapitalismusvergleich, Kapitalismusanalyse, Kapitalismuskritik (Münster: Westfällisches Dampfboot).
Bruff, I. and L. Horn (2012) ‘Special issue on varieties of capitalism in crisis’. Competition & Change, forthcoming.
Bruff, I. & D. Tepe (2011) ‘Forum on Critical IPE’. Journal of International Relations and Development, 14:3, 354-99.
Shields, S., I. Bruff & H. Macartney (2011) Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus (Palgrave).
Journal articles
Bruff, I. & E. Hartmann (2013) ‘The conceptual foundations of the comparative capitalisms literatures: neo-pluralist political science, economic sociology and Weber’. Capital & Class, forthcoming.
Bruff, I. & L. Horn (2012) ‘Varieties of capitalism in crisis?’ Competition & Change, forthcoming.
Bruff, I. (2012) ‘Authoritarian neoliberalism, occupy movements, and IPE’. Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, forthcoming.
Bruff, I. (2012) ‘The relevance of Nicos Poulantzas for contemporary debates on “the international”’. International Politics, 49:2, 177-94.
Bruff, I. (2011) ‘What about the elephant in the room? Varieties of capitalism, varieties in capitalism’. New Political Economy, 16:4, 481-500.
Bruff, I. (2011) ‘The case for a foundational materialism: going beyond historical materialist IPE in order to strengthen it’. Journal of International Relations and Development, 14:3, 391-9.
Bruff, I. & D. Tepe (2011) ‘What is critical IPE?’ Journal of International Relations and Development, 14:3, 354-8.
Bruff, I. (2010) ‘Germany’s Agenda 2010 reforms: passive revolution at the crossroads’. Capital & Class, 34:3, 409-28.
Bruff, I. (2010) ‘European varieties of capitalism and the international’. European Journal of International Relations, 16:4, 615-38.
Bieler, A., I. Bruff & A. D. Morton (2010) ‘Acorns and fruit: from totalisation to periodisation in the critique of capitalism’. Capital & Class, 34:1, 25-37.
Bruff, I. (2009) ‘Assertions, conflations and human nature: a reply to Werner Bonefeld’. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 11:3, 554-6.
Bruff, I. (2009) ‘The totalisation of human social practice: Open Marxists and capitalist social relations, Foucauldians and power relations’. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 11:2, 332-51.
Bruff, I. (2008) ‘Germany’s shift from the Alliance for Jobs to Agenda 2010: the role of transnationalizing German capital’. Debatte, 16:3, 273-89.
Wickham, J. and I. Bruff (2008) ‘Skills shortages are not always what they seem: migration and the Irish software industry’. New Technology, Work and Employment, 23:1-2, 30-43.
Bruff, I. (2005) ‘Making sense of the globalisation debate when engaging in political economy analysis’. British Journal of Politics & International Relations, 7:2, 261-80.
Bruff, I. (2003) ‘The Netherlands, the challenge of Lijst Pim Fortuyn, and the Third Way’. Politics, 23:3, 156-62.
Book chapters
Bruff, I. (2012) ‘The body in capitalist conditions of existence: a foundational approach’, in A. Cameron, J. Dickinson & N. Smith (eds), Body/State (Ashgate), forthcoming.
Bruff, I. (2011) ‘Overcoming the state/market dichotomy’, in S. Shields, I. Bruff & H. Macartney (eds), Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus (Palgrave), 80-98.
Shields, S., I. Bruff & H. Macartney (2011) ‘“Critical” and “International Political Economy”’, in S. Shields, I. Bruff & H. Macartney (eds), Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus (Palgrave), 1-6.
Shields, S., I. Bruff & H. Macartney (2011) ‘IPE and the international political economy? IPE or the international political economy?’, in S. Shields, I. Bruff & H. Macartney (eds), Critical International Political Economy: Dialogue, Debate and Dissensus (Palgrave), 169-72.
van Apeldoorn, B., I. Bruff & M. Ryner (2010) ‘The richness and diversity of critical IPE perspectives: moving beyond the debate on the “British School”’, in N. Phillips & C. Weaver (eds), International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present and Future (Routledge), 215-22.