Anderson, who also was an ACLS Fellow in 1996, will spend a year on his project, “Mapping the Late Marx: On Colonialism, Gender, Development, and Multilinear Concepts of Revolution.”

 

“Nowadays, many academics are returning to Marx in the wake of economic crises and skyrocketing economic inequality, while many others continue to work on inequalities stemming from gender, race and ethnicity, and colonialism,” said Anderson, who has studied the German philosopher-economist extensively. “My project tries to get these two strands of critical theory into conversation by showing the breadth of issues with which Marx was concerned, especially in his later years.”

 

Anderson, who also has appointments in the departments of political science and of feminist studies, said that his project will allow him to delve into a little-studied period of Marx’s life and works.

 

“Hundreds of scholars have studied alienation and humanism in the young Marx, or capital and class in ‘Das Kapital,’ but few have delved into the late Marx,” he said. “In his last decade, Marx turned away from Western Europe and toward the Global South, as he studied indigenous societies, including their gender relations. The issues that engaged him in this period speak to many of our contemporary concerns.”

 

Geoffrey Raymond, professor and chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Sociology, called Anderson’s fellowship “a major honor, and a well-deserved recognition of Professor Anderson’s outstanding scholarship.”

 

 

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