Christopher L Connery

About

Professor Christopher L Connery is a faculty member in the Department of Literature at UC Santa Cruz, affiliated with the Division of Humanities. His research interests encompass world literature and cultural studies, with a focus on globalism and geographical thought, the 1960s, Marxism, neoliberalism, pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies, and critical culture in contemporary China. His academic work also explores themes related to the cultural revolution, revolutionary theory, and critical theory. He teaches courses such as The World Sixties, The Future, The Good Life, Neoliberalism (graduate), Classical Chinese Culture and Literature, and contemporary Chinese cultural, political, and social issues. His primary office is located in Humanities Building 1, 641, and he offers office hours by appointment.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Law
• Media studies
• History
• Political economy
• Programming language
• Gender studies
• Psychology

Selected publications

• The dialectics of liberation

  2018-02-06 · 47 citations

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  This chapter discusses sixties liberation in reference to two events—the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa, and Latin America Congress in Havana, and the Dialectics of Liberation Congress in London. It considers liberation, a central aspect of political discourse in the 1960s, and its fate in the upsurge of the political. The chapter describes the anti-globalization protests of the late 1990s but primarily to the post-2008 confluence marked by the Occupy movements, the &qu…

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• Revolutionary China and Its Late-Capitalist Fate

  Historical Materialism · 2015-06-10 · 12 citations

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  This essay examines several works that contribute to an understanding of the nature of contemporary Chinese capitalism and its historical development. Core issues include the character of the bureaucracy, which has had a distinctive relationship to capital formation, and the character of the working class. The periodisation of Chinese capitalism and the relation between the pre- and post-reform periods are pressing political and analytical concerns. This essay suggests the advantages of a cleare…

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• World Factory

  Made in China Journal · 2020 · 5 citations

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  This essay posits a new period designation in reform-era China, the WTO years, from roughly 2005 to 2010, and considers some of the political, intellectual, and cultural developments therein. The primary focus is on the Shanghai-based Grass Stage theatre troupe, and its history of theatre work centred on social investigation and inquiry. The author has been a member of the group since 2010, and uses participant observation to discuss various political and cultural possibilities and impasses duri…

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• Introduction

  boundary 2 · 2019-05-01 · 4 citations

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  In an era of generalized depoliticization in China, what is the nature of critical practice, and what constraints does it face? Many on the Chinese left have seen in the history and practice of the Chinese Revolution, and in the stated values of the Chinese Communist Party, a space for critique of capitalism as practiced in China. There are dangers, however, in getting too close to the party-state. The creation of critical space in China is an ongoing and complex process.

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• The Location of Social Theater

  boundary 2 · 2019-05-01 · 3 citations

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  Zhao Chuan, director and one of the founding members of the Grass Stage Theater Group (Caotaiban), explains the genesis of the group and its approach to social issues, its use of nonprofessional actors and nonstandard theatrical space, and its commitment to work outside the state and commercial sectors. Further distinguishing Grass Stage’s practice is a commitment to discussion, including the lengthy “after-theater” discussions with audiences, new forms of space, and a new and distinctive politi…

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Frequent coauthors

• Vanita Seth

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  3 shared

• Hortense J. Spillers

  2 shared

• Lennet Daigle

  2 shared

• Duo Xu

  Intelligent Fusion Technology (United States)

  2 shared

• Paul A. Bové

  1 shared

• Judith Butler

  1 shared

• Jonathan Franzen

  Uppsala University

  1 shared

• Joseph A Buttigieg

  1 shared

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