Bruce Curtis

Bruce Curtis is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Waikato. He is a Marxist in the tradition of Ernest Mandel by inclination, but given the difficulties around using bourgeois datasets to undertake value analysis, and of the contradictions in a claim to scientific Marxism within an analytical void, he had developed an interest in methodology.

The project

Title: Anthropocene in the Antipodes: Post-colonial perspectives on sustainability (with Cate Curtis)

Research interests: Developing a post-colonial scholarship.

• Theme 1: The crisis of science as simultaneously an: (1) issue of methodology; (2) expression of a post-truth cultural turn; (3) intersectional resistance to science as power.
• Theme 2: The human / non-human actant interface as enriching research, initially the sociology of agriculture.

Hosting institution : Centre des Politiques de la Terre | Université Paris Cité, Sciences Po, IGPG.

Selective bibliography

• Curtis, B. (2021). An attitudinal study of academic staff in the humanities and social sciences. New Zealand Sociology, 36(1), 103-115.
• Curtis, B., Maynard, A., & Kanade, N. (2020). Exploring the squeezed middle: Aucklanders talk about being ‘squeezed’. Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences, 15(1), 8-21.
• Matthewman, S., Curtis B., & Mayeda D. (Editors). (2020). Being Sociological (3rd Edition), Red Globe Press.
• Kanade, N., & Curtis, B. (2019). Student debt, neoliberalism and frame analysis: A Goffmanesque account of neoliberal governmentality. Journal of Sociology, 55(3), 511-527.
• Curtis, B. (2018). New Zealand's meat board, markets and the killing season: A twentieth-century labour history of unintended consequences. Labour History, (114), 93-112.