Christopher Powell

I'm a social theorist working on positive visions of radical socialist transformation, in pursuit of which I have studied genocide, the sociology of knowledge, relational ontology, and complex systems theory. I'm the author of "Barbaric Civilization: A Critical Sociology of Genocide" (McGill-Queens University Press, 2011) and co-editor of "Conceptualizing Relational Sociology: Ontological and Theoretical Issues" and "Applying Relational Sociology: Relations, Networks, and Society" (Palgrave, 2013). My articles include "Revitalizing the Ethnosphere: Global Society, Ethnodiversity, and the Stakes of Cultural Genocide" (in Genocide Studies and Prevention, 2016), and "Radical Complexity: Using Concepts From Complex Systems Theory to Think About Socialist Transformation" (in New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Theory, forthcoming). My work is a search for conceptual tools that would enable us to understand emergent social forces and direct them to the construction of an egalitarian society.