Peter Bloom

Dr Peter Bloom is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of People and Organisations at The Open University.

Peter’s research focuses on critically reimagining contemporary power, politics and economic - specifically related to themes of democracy, capitalism, and technology.

His primary research interests include ideology, subjectivity and power, specifically as they relate to broader discourses and everyday practices of capitalism and democracy.

His books include Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Globalization (Edward Elgar Press) and Beyond Power and Resistance: Politics at the Radical Limits (Rowman and Littlefield International, November 2016). He is currently completing manuscripts on The Ethics of Neoliberalism: The Business of Making Capitalism Moral(Routledge, 2017), The Rise of the CEO Society with Carl Rhodes (Zed Books, 2017), and Organizing Power with Pasi Ahonen (Routledge, 2017) His scholarly work has been published in Human Relations, Theory and EventJournal of Political Ideologies, Journal of Political PowerNew Formations Research on the Sociology of Organization, Culture and OrganizationsEphemeraJournal of Organizational Change Management, Organization and International Journal of Žižek Studiesamong others. His writing has also been featured in The Washington Postand Open Democracy, among others.

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