Dr Phoebe Moore

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Dr. Phoebe Moore is a true global citizen and global scholar, and has lived in Pucallpa, Peru; Niigata, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Austin, Texas; and Nottingham, UK among other places, and now lives in Manchester. Phoebe has a background in Sociology and International Relations, and worked for the United Nations University in Tokyo as a researcher within the Peace and Governance Division. For her PhD, Phoebe did extensive field work in Seoul, Korea, and has published work on labour relations, world systems theory, neo- Gramscian theory, Turkish accession, and International Political Economy. The areas she has published work in and in particular on topics to do with education and employment policy are Japan, the USA, China, Singapore, Korea, and the United Kingdom.  She has also published on the concepts of radical production online within the peer to peer and free software communities.

Phoebe now lectures in International Relations and International Political Economy, and has two current interrelated research interests: international labour struggle; and post-capitalist models for socio-political economies that can resolve labour struggle, some of which are found in digital communities. Phoebe’s research monograph, entitled The International Political Economy of Work and Employability (Palgrave, Aug 2010) examines the effects of global shifts to a knowledgebased economy, which have led to an emergence of a new type of labour force in both the Eastern as well as Western hemispheres, with workers and the unemployed increasingly pressured to become self-managing, precarious lifelong learners. The book is written from a neo-Gramscian perspective and analyses how shifts in employment and education policy are noted within the context of a passive revolution rather than hegemonic conditions.

The paperback version of Dr Moore’s first monograph is entitled Globalisation and Labour Struggle in Asia: a neo-Gramscian critique of South Korea’s Political Economy (May 2012).

Dr Moore is the Convenor for the British International Studies Association research Working Group International Political Economy Group (IPEG) HTTP://WWW.BISA-IPEG.ORG/

•  International Political Economy
• International Relations Theory
• Political Economy
• Postindustrial Divisions of Labour
• Poverty and Development
• Global Governance and International Institutions
• Researching (‘Interviewing’)
• Contemporary Social and Political Theory (Lefebvre, de Certeau)
• Violence in Society (‘Cyberwarfare’)

My current research investigates the politics of international development policy. I am interested for example in the way in which the Department for International Development’s (DfID) Multilateral Aid Review: Ensuring maximum value for money for UK aid through multilateral organisations reflects relations between UK aid agencies, aid provision areas, and multilateral organisations. Provision is prioritised toward areas where social unrest is likely, and my claim is that social unrest is linked to rising unemployment in the context of global recession. In the areas where DfID intends to continue to provide aid, my claim is that the accelerated shift to marketization explicitly shown within Aid Review methodologies and related strategies, may lead to policies that heavily represent particular segments of societies over others, and may not protect working conditions and access to employment, which has historically been the International Labour Organisation’s focus. In other current research, I am theorising precarity and looking at worker subjectivity in the international political economy and my aim is to identify whether emerging social movements are of relevance to the understanding of new worker relations and class identities in contemporary global production relations. This work is aimed toward understanding contemporary divisions of labour and technology and looks at peer to peer and the free/open source software movements as well as the Italian autonomous movement for alternative relations of production.

Qualifications

PhD, International Relations (Nottingham University)

MA, Asia Pacific International Relations (International University of Japan)

BA, Sociology (University of Texas at Austin)

Member:

ESRC Peer Review College

British International Studies Association

International Studies Association

European Sociological Association

European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy

P. Moore (May 2012) Globalisation and Labour Struggle in Asia: A Neo-Gramscian Critique of South Korea's Political Economy (I.B. Tauris paperback).

P. Moore (February 2012) ‘Where is the study of work in critical International Political Economy?’ International Politics 49, 215–237.

P. Moore (2011) ‘Subjectivity in the Ecologies of P2P Production’ The Journal of Fibreculture FCJ-119.

P. Moore (August 2010) The International Political Economy of Work and Employability (Palgrave Macmillan).

P. Moore (2009) ‘UK Education, Employability, and Everyday Life’ Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies 7(1).

P. Moore and P. A. Taylor (2009) ‘Exploitation of the Self in Community-based Software Production - Workers’ Freedoms or Firm Foundations?’ Capital & Class Vol. 97, pp. 99–120.

P. Moore and O. Worth (eds.) (2009) Globalisation and the New Semi-peripheries in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan).

P. Moore and C. Dannreuther (2009) ‘Turkey in the World System and the New Orientalism’, in P. Moore and O. Worth (eds.) Globalisation and the New Semi-peripheries in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan).

P. Moore (2009) ‘Globalization of the Labour Culture in the Republic of Korea: What ‘Tripartite Relations’ Mean for Workers’ in D. Wilson and R. Maclean (eds.) International Handbook on Education for the World of Work: Bridging Academic and Vocational Education (Heidelberg, Springer Publishing). This is a project organised with the UNU headquarters in Tokyo.

P. Moore and L. Pettiford (eds.) (2007) Foreign Policy of the Great Powers: China and Japan. in Politics and Diplomacy Since World War II, Tauris Guide to International Relations (I.B. Tauris).

P. Moore (2007) ‘Japan/US Alliance and China relations: What future for Asian Pacific Security?’, in P. Moore and L. Pettiford (eds.) Foreign Policy of the Great Powers: China and Japan (I.B. Tauris).

P. Moore (2006) ‘Global Knowledge Capitalism, Self-woven Safety Nets, and the Crisis of Employability’ Global Society 20(4), pp. 453 – 473.

P. Moore (2005) ‘Revolutions from Above: Worker Training as Trasformismo in South Korea’ Capital & Class Vol. 86, pp. 39 – 72.

P. Moore, R. Basiao, Y. Mori, G. Palmquist, A. Perry, M. Suzuki, and J. Klismith (1999) The United States and Japan in 1999: Coping with Crisis (The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University).  My contribution to this volume occurred within the Economics sections.