Ronaldo Munck

Ronaldo Munck is an Argentine sociologist who has worked on the political sociology and globalisation of Latin America and Ireland.

Career

Education

Munck completed his PhD in political sociology at the University of Essex in 1976 under the supervision of Ernesto Laclau.

Works

Munck's works on Latin America include Politics and Dependency in the Third World: the case of Latin America (1984) on dependency theory, Latin America: The transition to democracy (1989), three editions of Contemporary Latin America (2002, 2007, 2012), and the Gramscian Rethinking Latin America: Development, Hegemony and Social Transformation (2013).

Munck's works on Irish political sociology include Ireland: Nation, State and Class Conflict (1985), Belfast in the Thirties: An Oral History (1987), The Irish Economy: Results and Prospects (1993), and Globalisation, Migration and Social Change in Ireland: After the Celtic Tiger (2011, co-edited with Bryan Fanning).

Munck's comparative labour studies include The New International Labour Studies (1988), Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism: Workers, unions and politics 1855-1985 (1986), Labour Worldwide in the Era of Globalisation: Alternative Unions Models in the New World Order (1998, co-edited with Peter Waterman), Labour and Globalisation: the new 'great transformation' (2002), and Globalisation and Contestation: The Great Counter-Movement (2006).

Munck also studied human migration Globalisation and Migration: New Conflicts, New Politics (2008) and human security Globalisation and Security (2009, co-edited with Honor Fagan).

Munck's publications on political sociology and social theory include The Difficult Dialogue: Marxism and Nationalism (1986) and Marx @ 2000: late Marxist perspectives (2000) which sought to renew Marxism in conversations with post-modernism, as well as the collection on critical development theory co-edited with Denis O’Hearn Critical Development Theory: Contributions to a New Paradigm (1999) and the study Water and Development: An African Perspective (2015).[1][2][3]

References
  1. "The University Times - New Political Charter Seeks Large-Scale Reform of Irish Universities". universitytimes.ie.
  2. "Interview – Ronaldo Munck". E-International Relations.
  3. "Ronaldo Munck - Staff Profile - DCU". dcu.ie.
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