Co-Chairs
Brian Milstein, University of Limerick
brian.milstein@ul.ie
Politics and Public Administration
University of Limerick
Castletroy
co. Limerick V94 T9PX
Ireland
Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, Université Méthodiste de Kindu
univmk4@gmail.com
Université Méthodiste de Kindu
Faculté des Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Administratives
BP 126 Kindu
Maniema
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Vice-Chair
Sima Baidya, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Officers
F. Peter Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, United States
Soledad Soza, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
James Chamberlain, Mississippi State University, United States
Candi Corrales, Northern Arizona University, United States
Mateus de Albuquerque
Background
Recognised as study group in 1995; granted research committee status in 1999.
Objectives
Aims to provide a forum for discussion and collective work among political scientists, with various subject matter specialisations, who are interested in critical discussion of theories which regard the capitalist system as an environment fundamentally hostile to democratic politics and which advocate the replacement of production to the fulfilment of human needs.
Its interests include theoretical and conceptual discussion of possible democratic alternatives to capitalist economic systems; the analysis of existing political institutions and practices in capitalist systems, particularly with regard to their relation to the economic structure; study of political strategies to ameliorate basic social problems such as racism, sexism, poverty, environmental degradation, and war; and the political study of reform and revolutionary movements.