Patrick Neveling

Dr Patrick Neveling

  • Senior Lecturer in Social Science
  • Bournemouth Gateway Building BG501, St Pauls Lane, Bournemouth, BH8 8GP
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Biography

Patrick completed a Magister Artium (pre-Bologna reform) in Cultural Anthropology, Indonesian Philology, and Philosophy from the University of Cologne and a PhD in Social Anthropology from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His research, writing and teaching seek to advance our understanding and critique of colonial, plantation-driven racialised capitalism and postcolonial, sweatshop-labour driven neoliberal capitalism. Patrick works on the historical political economy of colonial plantation regimes, racialised capitalism, gendered super-exploitation, and neoliberalism in postcolonial special economic zones. His publications further cover the invention of tradition debate, the anthropology of tourism, secular rituals, and prospects for an antifascist anthropology.

Patrick is lead-editor of FocaalBlog, one of the longest-running blogs in social anthropology, and serves on the editorial boards of Focaal – Journal for Global and Historical Anthropology and Social Analysis as well as for Marxism & Sciences, a journal edited by colleagues in Turkey and across the Global South...

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Research

Patrick completed a Magister Artium (pre-Bologna reform) in Cultural Anthropology, Indonesian Philology, and Philosophy from the University of Cologne and a PhD in Social Anthropology from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His thesis, Manifestations of Globalisation. Capital, State, and Labour in Mauritius, 1825 – 2005, develops a global historical anthropology that advances the understanding and critique of colonial, plantation-driven racialised capitalism and postcolonial, sweatshop-labour driven neoliberal capitalism. Patrick’s second major research project, The Otherwise Neoliberal. Special Economic Zones in a Global History of Capitalism, uncovers neoliberalism as a political economic praxis that emerged on the peripheries of the world economy; in the Special Economic Zones of 1940s Puerto Rico and 1960s Singapore and Taiwan, for example, to today’s more than 5,000 zones in 147 nations. Focused on the escalation of exploitation of more than 100 million workers in zone factories today, this project counters neoliberal fictions from World Bank and other international organisations’ researchers as it shows the real-world negative impact on workers’ livelihoods and the huge social welfare expenses caused by the zones.

Journal Articles

  • Neveling, P., 2023. Towards a Phenomenological Anthropology of the Capitalist World System. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ETHNOLOGIE - JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 148 (1), 131-134.
  • Neveling, P., 2019. Book Review: Money in a Human Economy, ed. Keith Hart. AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, 46 (1), 111-112.
  • Neveling, P., 2019. Die Lage der marxistischen Ethnologie im Jahr 2020. Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, 144, 93-132.
  • Neveling, P. and Steur, L., 2018. Introduction: Marxian anthropology resurgent. Focaal, 2018 (82), 1-15.
  • Neveling, P., 2017. Proper property or anti-fascist anthropology? the Trojan Horse of possession-based economies and modes of production as its Achilles' heel. Anthropological Theory, 17 (2), 239-254.
  • Neveling, P., 2017. The political economy machinery: toward a critical anthropology of development as a contested capitalist practice. Dialectical Anthropology, 41 (2), 163-183.
  • Neveling, P., 2016. Hope’s global systemic paradox. Voices from Around the World – An Alternative Online Journal.
  • Neveling, P., 2014. Structural contingencies and untimely coincidences in the making of neoliberal India: The Kandla Free Trade Zone, 1965-91. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 48 (1), 17-43.
  • Neveling, P., 2014. Three shades of embeddedness, state capitalism as the informal economy, emic notions of the anti-market, and counterfeit garments in the Mauritian export processing zone. Research in Economic Anthropology, 34, 65-94.
  • Neveling, P., 2013. Chagos Islanders in Mauritius and the UK. Forced displacement and onward migration by Jeffery, Laura. Social Anthropology, 21 (1), 106-107.
  • Neveling, P., 2011. Vom Nutzen der Geschichte, vom Wissen der Akteure und vom Nachteil der Multi-Sited Ethnography - Welthandel, Wirtschaftskrise und Standortwettbewerb in Mauritius Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts. Sociologus, 60 (1), 71-97.
  • Neveling, P., 2011. 'Einleitende Überlegungen: Wissen um Veränderung. Sociologus, 60 (1), 1-14.
  • Neveling, P. and Wergin, C., 2010. Tourism and scale. Anthropology news, 51 (8), 3-4.
  • Neveling, V.P., 2010. On the uses of history, the actor's knowledge and the disadvantages of multi-sited ethography: Global trade, economic crisis and the politics of foreign direct investment in early 21st century Mauritius. Sociologus, 60 (1), 71-97.
  • Neveling, V.P., 2010. Introductory remarks - the production of knowledge about change: Development, history, social transformation. Sociologus, 60 (1), 1-13.
  • Neveling, P. and Wergin, C., 2009. Projects of scale-making: New perspectives for the anthropology of tourism. Etnografica, 13 (2), 315-342.

Books

  • Tradition Within and Beyond the Framework of Invention Case Studies from the Mascarenes and Japan. Halle (Saale): Zentrum für Interdiszilpinäre Regionalstudien Vorderer Orient, Afrika, Asien der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg.

Chapters

  • Neveling, P., 2024. Special economic zones: The global frontlines of neoliberalism's value regime. Insidious Capital: Frontlines of Value at the End of a Global Cycle. 40-69.
  • Neveling, P., 2024. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY IN THE GLOBAL GARMENT INDUSTRY. The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare. 177-189.
  • Neveling, P., 2021. Exkurs: Sonderwirtschaftszonen und globale Warenketten. In: Fischer, K., Reiner, C. and Staritz, C., eds. Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung Arbeit, Kapital, Konsum, Natur. Mandelbaum Verlag, 51.
  • Neveling, P., 2020. 'The Market'. In: Bradshaw, A. and Hietanen, J., eds. The Dictionary of Coronavirus Culture. Repeater Books, 151-157.
  • Neveling, P., 2020. De-escalating the centre: urban futures and special economic zones beyond poststructuralism's neoliberal imaginations. In: Bach, J. and Murawski, M., eds. Re-centring the city. Global mutations of socialist modernity. University College London Press.
  • Neveling, P., 2020. The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones: Pasts, Presents, Futures. The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development. 190-205.
  • Neveling, P., 2019. Industry and Manufacturing. In: Belucci, S. and Eckert, A., eds. General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries. James Currey, 177-194.
  • Hesse, J.O. and Neveling, P., 2019. Global Value Chains. The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. 279-293.
  • Neveling, P., 2018. Export processing zones/special economic zones. In: Callan, H., ed. International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2179-2185.
  • Neveling, P., 2018. Karl Marx. In: Callan, H., ed. International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. John Wiley, 3821-3824.
  • Neveling, P., 2018. Austerity, socialism, and the capitalist anti-market. In: Rakopoulos, T., ed. The Global Life of Austerity. Comparing Beyond Europe. Berghahn Books, 48-59.
  • Neveling, P., 2018. Genealogies of a miracle: A historical anthropology of the Mauritian export processing zone. The Mauritian Paradox: Fifty years of Development, Diversity and Democracy. 107-122.
  • Neveling, P., 2017. The global spread of export processing zones, and the 1970s as a decade of consolidation. Contesting Deregulation: Debates, Practices and Developments in the West since the 1970s. 23-40.
  • Neveling, P., 2017. Capital over labor: Health and safety in export processing zones garment production since 1947. In: Rentice, R. and De Neve, G., eds. Unmaking the Global Sweatshop. Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Neveling, P., 2016. Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism. In: Hyatt, S., Kingsolver, A. and Coleman, S., eds. Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology. Routledge, 72-91.
  • Neveling, P., 2015. Flexible capitalism and transactional orders in colonial and postcolonial mauritiusflexible capitalism and transactional orders in Mauritius: A post-occidentalist view. Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work. 207-234.
  • Neveling, P., 2015. Export processing zones and global class formation. Anthropologies of Class: Power, Practice, and Inequality. 164-182.
  • Neveling, P., 2015. Free Trade Zones, Export Processing Zones, Special Economic Zones and Global Imperial Formations 200 BCE to 2015 CE. In: Ness, I. and Cope, Z., eds. The Palgrave encyclopedia of imperialism and anti-imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, 1007-1016.
  • Neveling, P., 2015. EXPORT PROCESSING ZONES, SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES AND THE LONG MARCH OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DURING THE COLD WAR. Decolonization and the Cold War: Negotiating Independence. 63-84.
  • Neveling, P., 2013. A periodisation of Mauritian integration into the global sugar commodity chain (1825-2005). In: Curry-Machado, J., ed. Global histories, imperial commodities, local interactions. Palgrave Macmillan, 121-142.
  • Neveling, P., 2013. A Periodisation of Globalisation According to the Mauritian Integration into the International Sugar Commodity Chain (1825–2005). Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. 121-142.
  • Neveling, P., 2012. Die Dekonstruktion von Traditionen als Macht- und Klassenfrage – Eine Präzisierung des Erfindungsparadigmas. In: Faschingeder, G. and Mückler, H., eds. Tradition und Traditionalismus: Zur Instrumentalisierung eines Identitätskonzeptes. Promedia Verlagsgesellschaft, 231-246.
  • Neveling, P. and Klien, S., 2010. The salience of traditions, inventions and global integration compared: Japan and the Mascarene Islands. In: Klien, S. and Neveling, P., eds. Tradition within and beyond the framework of invention: Case studies from the Mascarenes and Japan. Halle (Saale): Zentrum für Interdiszilpinäre Regionalstudien Vorderer Orient, Afrika, Asien der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, 53-61.
  • Neveling, P. and Klien, S., 2010. Introduction: Tradition within and beyond the framework of invention. In: Klien, S. and Neveling, P., eds. Tradition within and beyond the framework of invention: Case studies from the Mascarenes and Japan. Halle (Saale): Zentrum für Interdiszilpinäre Regionalstudien Vorderer Orient, Afrika, Asien der Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, 1-52.

Internet Publications

Others

  • Neveling, P., Steur, L., Murawski, M., Morell, M., McCall Howard, P. and Ciavolella, R., 2018. Anthropology and Global Capitalism; Marxism resurgent. Berghahn Books. Published.

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Journal of Labor and Society, Anonymous peer review, 16 Feb 2023
  • Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Anonymous peer review, 16 Jan 2023
  • Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2022
  • Antipode: a radical journal of geography, Anonymous peer review, 18 Jul 2022
  • Suomen Antropologi, Anonymous peer review, 18 Apr 2022
  • SN Social Sciences, Anonymous peer review, 01 Nov 2021
  • Review of International Political Economy, Anonymous peer review, 18 Oct 2021

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Co-convenor: 3rd Labour Transfer Summer School: establishing links between research and labour activism; Buggerru, Sardinia, June 2024 (20 Jun 2024-25 Jun 2024)

Conference Presentations

  • European Association of Social Anthropologists, bi-annual conference "Doing and Undoing with Anthropology", Deindustrialisation in the longue durée. Capitalism's Geographical Seesaws and Historical Fixes in the Political Economy of Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius, 23 Jul 2024, University of Barcelona
  • Historical Materialism 12th Annual Conference, "The Cost of Life. Oppression, Exploitation and Struggle in the Time of Monsters", A Historical Materialist Analysis of the New International Economic Order Initiative, 09 Nov 2023, School of Oriental and African Studies, London