DR. TIMOTHY KERSWELL
Associate Professor
PhD in Political Science, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Associate Professor, (On Leave) TSLAS, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bhadson Road, Patiala-147004, Punjab)
Political economy, comparative politics, political science, labour studies, social movements
timothy.kerswell@thapar.edu
Timothy Kerswell is a political scientist with expertise in political economy, labor politics, social movements, and a regional focus on India and China. He is the author of Worker Cooperatives in India (Palgrave MacMillan) and his articles have been published in leading outlets such as The Journal of Contemporary Asia, The China Review, Geoforum, Socialism and Democracy and The Journal of Labor and Society. He previously worked for the University of Macau from 2013 to 2020 in the Department of Government and Public Administration as an Assistant Professor. He has also worked for the Australian Government in the Department of Home Affairs as a policy adviser from 2009 to 2013 resigning at the rank of Assistant Director, and the United Workers Union as a research consultant in 2013. He regularly appears on China Global Television Network and publishes written op-eds for CGTN and China Daily. He completed his PhD in political science from Queensland University of Technology.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Kerswell, T., Pratap, S., “Worker Cooperatives in India” Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, .
- Kerswell, T., “New Imperialism?: Political Formations and Imperialism in the Philippines” LAP, 2011.
- Journal Articles?
- Kerswell, T., Zihong D., “The Political Economy of Pneumoconiosis in China”, The China Review. (SSCI, Scopus: Q1 Cultural Studies) – [Forthcoming]
- Kerswell, T., A Conceptual History of the Labour Aristocracy: A Critical Review, Socialism and Democracy. Vol 32, Iss 2, 2018. (Scopus Q3: Sociology and Political Science):
- Kerswell, T., Studies of the Indian Communist Movement. The Journal of Labor and Society. Vol 21, Iss 3, 2018:
- Kerswell, T., Pratap, S., “Liberalisation in India: Does it Help or Aggravate Employment Problems?” Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 49, Iss 4, 2018. (SSCI, Scopus Q1 Cultural Studies, Q1 Social Sciences (Misc.):
- Kerswell, T., Pratap, S., “Labour Imperialism in India: The Case of SEWA” Geoforum. Vol 85, 2017. (SSCI, Scopus: Q1 Sociology and Political Science):
- Kerswell, T., Lin, J., “Capitalism Denied with Chinese Characteristics.” Socialism and Democracy. Vol 31, Iss 2, 2017. (Scopus Q3: Sociology and Political Science):
- Kerswell, T., Surendra, P, “Some Reflections on the Crisis of the Left in India”, Marxism 21. Vol 14, Iss 1, 2017
- Kerswell, T., Surendra, P., “India’s ‘Informal Sector’: Demystifying a Problematic Concept,” The Journal of Labor and Society, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2016:
- Kerswell, T., Surendra Pratap, “Informality in Automobile Value Chains in India,” The Journal of Labor and Society, Volume 18, Issue 4, 2015:
- Kerswell, T., Productivity and Wages: What Grows for Workers without Power and Institutions? Social Change, Volume 43, Issue 4, 2013:
- Kerswell, T., Globalizing the Social Movements: Labour and the World Social Forum. Theory in Action, Volume 5, Issue 3, 2012:
- Kerswell, T., Consuming Value: The Politics of Production and Consumption. Economic Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 3, 2012.
- Kerswell, T., Class, Productive and Unproductive Labour: Divisions in the Global Working Class. Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences, 4, 1, 2012.
Book Chapters
- Kerswell, T., Frantz Fanon and the Peasantry as the Centre of Revolution,” Frantz Fanon Book Project, Leiden: Brill Publishing, [Forthcoming]
- Kerswell, T., Pratap, S. Informality in the Indian Automobile Industry,” Understanding Labour Market Institutions, Processes and Policies in the Globalizing India. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, [Forthcoming]
- Cope, Z., Kerswell, T. Labour, Imperialism and Globalization,” The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015
- Kerswell, T., “Joseph Stalin,” The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015
- Kerswell, T., “Samir Amin,” The Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015
Book Reviews
- Kerswell, T., “Kuhn, Gabriel (Ed). Turning Money Into Rebellion: The Unlikely Story of Denmark’s Revolutionary Bank Robbers. Montreal: Kersplebedeb.” Journal of Labor and Society. Vol 20, Issue 1
- Kerswell, T., “Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement,” by Anthony-Oliver Smith, Human Rights Review, Volume 16, Issue 4, 2015
- Kerswell, T., “Labor Divided,” Monthly Review, Volume 65, Issue 7, 2013
Conference Activity
- Kerswell, T., “The Challenge of Informality and Precarity in India’s Garment and Textile Value Chain”, Indian Society of Labour Economics Annual Conference. Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram, India 2017.
- Kerswell, T., “SEWA and Trade Union Imperialism. “ Workshop on Labour Geography – From Spaces of Work To Communities of Struggle. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, 2017
- Kerswell, T., “Neoliberal Unions Produce Neoliberal Cooperatives: A Case Study of SEWA Rachaita.” Labor under Social Transformation and Globalization. University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, 2017
- Kerswell, T., “Frantz Fanon and the Revolutionary Peasantry.” New Political Science, University of Havana, Cuba, 2016
- Kerswell, T., “The Rise and Fall of Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh and their cooperative movement.” New Political Science, University of Havana, Cuba, 2016
- Kerswell, T., “The Rise and Fall of Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh and their Cooperative Movement.”, Alternative Business Histories: The 8th Annual Conference of the Academic Association of Historians in Australian and New Zealand Business Schools, Macquarie University, Australia, 2016
- Kerswell, T., “Neoliberalism vs Village Collectivism: A Success Story from an Indian Village”, The 11th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, Punjabi University, India, 2016
- Kerswell, T., “Democracy, Development or Power? Informal Workers in India and China,” New Political Science, University of Havana, Cuba, 2015
- Kerswell, T., “Is the labour question the same in the global north as it is in the global south?” Social Change in the 21st Century, QUT, Brisbane, 2006.
