Sam Glasper
The Sun Shall Set – New Left and the Decline of Empire: The Politics of Race and Revolution in the British Class War
Biography
Sam has a BA (First Class Honours) in International Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA (Merit) in International Relations (Political Theory) at Durham University, completing a dissertation on the place of Marxism in the national liberation struggles taking place in Ireland and Palestine and a dissertation on components on capitalism that struck the flames of armed struggle in the student populations of the United States and West Germany. The first of his family to go to university, he arrived in academia from the former mining villages of County Durham. Thus, his work focuses on liberatory forms of politics as well as works of critical thinking.
He was a correspondent for International Affairs for the student news site The Peoples News and currently acts as a writer and editor at the scholarly journal Peace, Land and Bread. His Masters dissertation recently featured as a published work within the magazine.
Research Interests
Sam’s research interests look towards works detailing political violence and conflict, usually using the lens of critical thoughts such as Marxism, Queer Theory, postcolonialism and postmodernism. Looking particularly at often forgotten or ignored thinkers such as J.Sakai, Charu Majumdar, Cedric Robinson, Guy Debord, Jene Genet and Gilles Deleuze, Sam’s research looks towards the Third World and neo-imperialism in an effort to analyse current socio-political conflict and working class ideology within the world.