Dr Andy Higginbottom
Associate Professor
Contact
- Email: a.higginbottom@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Penrhyn Road
- Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- School: School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Department: Department of Politics
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.
My current research project is a dialogue with Marx's 'Capital' concerning the theorisation of US cotton slavery and British industrial capitalism. The next project flowing on from that is an exploration of Marini's concept of labour super-exploitation and Marx's theory of surplus-value.
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.
Areas of specialism
- Political economy
- Liberation thought
- Critical criminology
- Marxism
- Dependency theory
- Extractivism
- Slavery
Courses taught
Undergraduate
- Criminology BSc(Hons)
- Global Politics and International Relations BA(Hons)
- History and International Relations BA(Hons)
- History BA(Hons)
- Human Rights and Criminology BA(Hons)
- Human Rights and History BA(Hons)
- Human Rights and Social Justice BA(Hons)
- Human Rights and Sociology BA(Hons)
- Sociology and International Relations BSc(Hons)
- Sociology BSc(Hons)
Postgraduate
Qualifications
- PhD in Criminology: Globalisation and Human Rights in Colombia.
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- BSc in Sociology and Economics
Industry links
Member of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy.
Secretary of the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.
Member of the Marikana Miners Solidarity Campaign (UK).
Associate member of the Bremen (Germany) Human Rights Association.
Publications
Number of items: 11.
Article
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, 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 (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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