Dr Andy Higginbottom

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Andy Higginbottom
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About

I am an international solidarity campaigner as well as an academic. I am active in support of social movements in Colombia, South Africa and Eelam Tamils. I take a general interest in movements fighting extractivism, neocolonialism and oppression. 

I am currently learning about strands of liberation thought from Africa, African America and Latin America.

I teach modules on international political economy, slavery and emancipation, and crimes of the powerful.  I am especially interested in learning and teaching methods, and curriculum content, that prioritise the inclusion of students from a diversity of backgrounds and work to encourage the fullest potential of all students. 

Academic responsibilities

Associate Professor

Qualifications

  • PhD in Criminology: Globalisation and Human Rights in Colombia.
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • BSc in Sociology and Economics

Teaching and learning

The pedagogical approach I aspire to (but don't always reach) is student centred learning.

I am especially concerned that working class students from all backgrounds reach their full potential in a supportive, cooperative and yet challenging environment.

I encourage students to look at critical and inter-disciplinary approaches. 

PO5007 Slavery and Emancipation

PO6013 Crimes of the Powerful

PO6020/30  Advanced Research Project reading group on The Politics of International Exploitation.

PO7002 International Political Economy. 

Qualifications and expertise

  • Senior Fellow Higher Education Association.

Undergraduate courses taught

Postgraduate courses taught

Research

My current research project is an exploration of Marini's concept of labour super-exploitation and Marx's theory of surplus-value and profit.

The next project flowing on from that is a dialogue with Marx's 'Capital' concerning the theorisation of US cotton slavery and British industrial capitalism. 

Qualifications and expertise

  • The political economy of extractive industries
  • Colombia and Latin America

Areas of specialism

  • The three volumes of Marx's 'Capital'
  • Imperialism and unequal exchange
  • The theory of rent and multinational profits
  • The transformation problem

Scholarly affiliations

  • CLACSO Latin American Council of Social Sciences
  • IIPPE International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy

Publications

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Number of items: 21.

Article

Higginbottom, Andy (2019) Debate sobre el imperialismo, el neocolonialismo y la sobreexplotacion laboral como principales caracteristicas del mundo capitalista en el siglo XXI. Anthropos, 250, pp. 11-25. ISSN (print) 2385-5150

Higginbottom, Andrew (2018) A self-enriching pact : Imperialism and the Global South. Journal of Global Faultlines, 5(1-2), pp. 49-57. ISSN (print) 2397-7825

Higginbottom, Andy (2018) Enslaved African labour in the Americas : from primitive accumulation to manufacture with racial violence. Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Americas, 12(1), pp. 22-46. ISSN (online) 1984-1639

Higginbottom, Andy (2017) El Genocidio de los Tamiles ha llegado a America Latina = The genocide of Tamils has arrived in Latin America. Mundo Siglo XXI, 12(42), pp. 21-32. ISSN (online) 1870-2872

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Higginbottom, Andrew (2014) 'Imperialist rent' in practice and theory. Globalizations, 11(1), pp. 23-33. ISSN (print) 1474-7731

Higginbottom, Andrew (2013) The political economy of foreign investment in Latin America: dependency revisited. Latin American Perspectives, 40(3), pp. 184-206. ISSN (print) 0094-582X

Higginbottom, Andrew (2012) Structure and essence in 'Capital I': extra surplus-value and the stages of capitalism. Journal of Australian Political Economy(70), pp. 251-270. ISSN (print) 0156-5826

Higginbottom, Andy (2011) Nuevo imperialismo y megaproyectos: breve analisis de la inversion extranjera y la economia politica violenta de Colombia. Aquelarre, 10(21), pp. 65-74. ISSN (print) 1657-9992

Higginbottom, Andrew (2011) Gold Mining in South Africa reconsidered: new mode of exploitation, theories of imperialism and 'Capital'. Économies et Sociétés, Série ‘Developpement, croissance et progres’(45), pp. 261-288. ISSN (print) 0013-0567

Higginbottom, Andy (2008) Solidarity action research as methodology: the crimes of the powerful in Colombia. Latin American Perspectives, 35(5), pp. 158-170. ISSN (print) 0094-582X

Book Section

Higginbottom, Andy (2020) Colonialism still matters : militarization and imperial grand strategy in the era of US vs China. In: Fernando, Jude Lal, (ed.) Resistance to empire and militarization - reclaiming the sacred. Sheffield, U.K. : Equinox Publishing. pp. 251-269. ISBN 9781781799956

Higginbottom, Andy (2019) Anti-apartheid, anti-capitalism, and antiimperialism : liberation in South Africa. In: Ness, Immanuel and Cope, Zac, (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. 2nd ed. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319912066

Higginbottom, Andy (2019) Enslaved African labour : violent racial capitalism. In: Ness, Immanuel and Cope, Zac, (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. 2nd edition. 2nd ed. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319912066

Higginbottom, Andy [Interviewee] and Dyveke Styve, Maria [Interviewer] (2017) The informal empire of London. In: Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu , Harvold Kvangraven, Ingrid , Santanta, Frutuoso and Dyveke Styve, Maria, (eds.) Dialogues on development. New York, U.S. : Young Scholars International / Institute for New Economic Thinking. pp. 60-66. 1 ISSN (online) 2472-6966

Higginbottom, Andy (2016) Anti-apartheid, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism : liberation in South Africa? In: Ness, Immanuel and Cope, Zac, (eds.) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. New York, U.S. : Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 544-569. ISBN 9780230392779

Higginbottom, Andy (2012) New Strategies for Mobilising International Public Opinion against the Corporate Takeover of Latin America. In: Novelli, Mario and Ferus-Comelo, Anibel, (eds.) Globalization, Knowledge and Labour: Education for Solidarity within Spaces of Resistance. Abingdon, U.K. : Routledge. pp. 182-205. (Rethinking Globalizations) ISBN 9780415436632

Conference or Workshop Item

Higginbottom, Andrew (2011) The limits to Harvey : capital’s contradictions and imperialism. In: Eighth Historical Materialism Annual Conference: Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle; 10 - 13 Nov 2011, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Higginbottom, Andrew (2010) Underdevelopment as super-exploitation: Marini's political-economic thought. In: Historical Materialism: Crisis and Critique, 7th Annual Conference; 11-14 Nov 2010, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Higginbottom, Andrew (2009) Third form of extraction surplus value. In: Historical Materialism 2009; 27 - 29 Nov 2009, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

Higginbottom, Andrew (2008) Rent, mining and British imperialism. In: Many Marxisms : Historical Materialism Annual Conference 2008; 07 - 09 Nov 2008, London, U.K.. (Unpublished)

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