The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster revealed the contempt of multinational corporations, and how the British state neglected the people it was meant to protect. However, argues Sam Glasper, the inquiry’s final report fails to reveal the extent to which 'racial capitalism' affects the lives of Britain's most vulnerable people.
Sam holds a BA in International Politics from Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in International Relations (Political Theory) from Durham University.
One of his MA dissertations concerned the place of Marxism in the national liberation struggles in Ireland and Palestine.
Another dissertation, later published in the peer-reviewed magazine Peace, Land and Bread, researched the components of capitalism that inflamed armed struggle among student populations in the United States and West Germany.
The first of his family to go to university, Sam arrived in academia from the former mining villages of County Durham.
His work focuses on liberatory forms of politics, as well as works of critical thinking.
His research interests include political violence and conflict, which he examines through the lens of critical thought such as Marxism, queer theory, postcolonialism and postmodernism.
He has looked in particular at often-forgotten or ignored thinkers such as J. Sakai, Charu Majumdar, Cedric Robinson, Guy Debord, Jene Genet and Gilles Deleuze.
Sam’s research looks towards the Majority World and neo-imperialism to analyse current socio-political conflict and working-class ideology.
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