ARTICLES + BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Kristin Plys, Priyansh, and Kanishka Goonewardena. (2024). “Marxist Theory Unbound: Global Perspectives from South Asia” Political Power and Social Theory Vol. 40: 1-17. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2024). “Anti-Colonial Marxism in French and Portuguese India Compared: Varadarajulu Subbiah and Aquino de Bragança’s Theories of Colonial Independence” Political Power and Social Theory Vol. 40: 153-179. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2023). “The Female Nude in Anti-Zia Feminist Painting” 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual/Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur 4: 639-673. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2023). “Theories of Antifascism in the Interwar Mediterranean: Autonomous Workers Movements and the Café Culture in Italy & Tunisia, 1922-1945, Part II” Journal of World-Systems Research 29(1): 125-148. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2022). “Political Work on a Cultural Front: The Postcolonial Avant-garde of Lahore’s Pak Tea House during the Zia Military Dictatorship (1977-1988),” Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory 30(3): 206-235. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2022). “Theories of Antifascism in the Interwar Mediterranean: Fascism in the Longue Durée, Part I” invited contribution to special issue ‘Anti-State and Anti-Systemic: Exilic Spaces and Societies in Movement in the World-System’ edited by Spencer Louis Potiker and Yousuf Al-Bulushi Journal of World-Systems Research 28(2): 344-358. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2022). “Nostalgia for Futures Past: The 1970s Global Left in Naeem Mohaiemen’s Afsan’s Long Day (The Young Man Was, Part II)” Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture 36(1): 41-55. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2022). “Postcolonial Autonomous Zones: Urban Spaces of Opposition to Authoritarian Rule in Lahore and Delhi during the Ziaul Haq and Indira Gandhi Regimes” in Amen Jaffer and Mashal Saif Eds. State and Subject Formation in South Asia Karachi: Oxford University Press,  pp. 275-298.

  • Kristin Plys. (2021). “Theorizing Capitalist Imperialism for Anti-Imperialist Praxis: Towards a Rodneyan World Systems Analysis,” Journal of World-Systems Research 27(1): 288-313. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2020). “The Poetry of Resistance: Poetry as solidarity in postcolonial anti-authoritarian movements in Islamicate South Asia” Theory, Culture & Society 36(7-8): 295-313. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2020). “Time and World-History” Critical Sociology 46(4-5): 677-691. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2019). “Subaltern Historiography, the Working Class, and Social Theory for the Global South” Economic & Political Weekly 54(43): 49-58. [link]

  • Kristin Plys. (2019). “Violence as a Tactic of Social Protest in Postcolonial India: From the Railway Workers’ Strike to the Baroda Dynamite Conspiracy, 1974-6” European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie  60(2): 171-211. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2017). “Political Deliberation and Democratic Reversal in India: Indian Coffee House during The Emergency (1975-77) and the Third World 'Totalitarian Moment’”Theory and Society 46(2): 117-142. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2016). “Immanuel Wallerstein” in Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Janeen Baxter. New York: Oxford University Press. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2016). “Worker Self-Management in the Third World, 1952-1979” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 57(1): 1-28. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2015). “World-Systems Analysis and its Relevance for Kerala Today” Journal of Polity and Society August.

  • Kristin Plys (2014). “Financialization, Crisis, and the Development of Capitalism in the United States” World Review of Political Economy 5(1): 24-44. [link ]

  • Kristin Plys (2013). “Eurocentrism and the Origins of Capitalism” Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 36(1): 41-81. [link]

  • Kristin Plys (2012). “World Systemic and Kondratieff Cycles” Yale Journal of Sociology 9: 130-160.