Tim Di Muzio

BA (UWO), MA, PhD (York University, Toronto, Canada)

Location: 19:1018
Phone: +61 2 42 215673
Email: tdimuzio@uow.edu.au

Biography

Tim Di Muzio is lecturer in International Relations and public policy.  Previous to this role he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland.  He has taught at a number of Universities including Oxford, York University, Trent University and the University of Western Ontario.

Research Interests

Tim’s research is guided by two main agendas.  In the first agenda, his interests lie at the intersection between the history of market civilization, global capitalism and questions related to energy, the environment and global social reproduction.  In the second agenda, his interests lie at the intersection between war, racism and liberal forms of rule in the making of world order.  

Current Research Projects

• Toward a Genealogy of Militant Liberalism
• Global Capital, Peak Oil and Globalized Social Reproduction
• The End of Market Civilization: The Next Great Transformation

Potential Topics for HDR & Honours Supervision

International relations and critical political economy, particularly in projects that relate to the following themes:

• The emergence and development of capitalism
• Debt
• Taxation and financial crises
• The emergence and proliferation of a global market civilization founded on fossil fuels
• Resource wars
• Environmental change
• Alternative futures

Publications – Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)

• Di Muzio, Tim, ‘Capitalizing a Future Unsustainable: Finance, Energy and the Fate of Market Civilization,’ Review of International Political Economy, 2011, pp. 1-26 forthcoming.
• Di Muzio, Tim, ‘The Liberal Renaissance and the Ends of History’, Journal of International Relations and Development. Forthcoming, 2011.
• Di Muzio, Tim, ‘The Real Resource Curse and the Imperialism of Development’, Suomen Antropologi, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2010, pp. 94-98.
• Di Muzio, Tim, ‘Governing Global Slums: The Biopolitics of Target 11’, Global Governance, Vol. 14, 2008, pp. 305-326.
• Di Muzio, Tim, ‘The Art of Colonization: The Capitalization of the State and the Ongoing Nature of Primitive Accumulation’, New Political Economy, Vol. 12, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 517-539.

Publications – Scholarly Book Chapters

• Di Muzio, Tim, ‘The Crisis of Petro-Market Civilization: The Past as Prologue?’ in Stephen Gill (ed).  Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership. (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press), forthcoming, 2011.
• Di Muzio, Tim, “Silencing the Sovereignty of the Poor in Haiti,” in Robbie Shilliam and Gurminder K. Bhambra, Silencing Human Rights: Critical Engagements with a Contested Project. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan), 2008, pp. 205-222.
• Di Muzio, Tim and Alejandra Roncallo, “Governance and World Order” in Power, Production and Social Reproduction, edited by Isabella Bakker and Stephen Gill. London: Palgrave MacMillan. (2003) pp 43-45.
• Di Muzio, Tim, “Crises, Tensions, and Contradictions” in Power, Production and Social Reproduction,
  edited by Bakker and Gill. London: Palgrave MacMillan. (2003) pp 99-102.
• Bakker, Isabella, Stephen Gill and Tim Di Muzio, “Human In/Security on a Universal Scale” in Power, Production and Social Reproduction, edited by Bakker and Gill. London: Palgrave MacMillan. (2003) pp 161-67.

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