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Background
Phillip Hough is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. His main research interests are in the fields of social class relations, global political economy, world-systems analysis, and public sociology. He has conducted research examining interrelations between globalization, state/paramilitary violence, U.S. global hegemony, and the illegal drug trade, using qualitative as well as comparative-historical methods of analysis.
His current research focuses on social class relations in Colombia from the era of “developmentalism” following World War II until the present era of “neoliberal globalization.” Theoretically, he asks what may be called “Gramsci’s questions”: Under what conditions do subaltern groups and classes actively consent to their own subordination under capitalist relations of production and exchange; under what conditions is the use of overt coercion required to establish these relations; and under what conditions do both consensual and coercive mechanisms fail? In order to answer this set of questions, he draws upon a combination of theoretical approaches, including world-systems analysis, commodity chain approaches to elite collective action, theories of the labor process, theories of globalization, in addition to neo-Gramscian theories of hegemony and domination.
Courses Taught:
Drugs and Society
Class, Power and Ideology in Comparative-Historical Perspective
Latin America in the World-System (at Johns Hopkins University)
Theories of International Development (at Johns Hopkins University)
Selected Publications:
“Trajectories of Hegemony and Domination in Colombia: A Comparative Analysis of the Coffee, Banana and Coca-Frontier Regions from the Rise of Developmentalism to the Era of Neoliberal Globalization,” (Ph. D. Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2007)
“Global Perspectives on the United States: Colombia,” chapter in Global Perspectives on the United States: A Nation by Nation Survey (Berkshire Publishing, Barrington, MA: 2007)
“Rethinking Violence in Colombia: A Review of Nazih Richani’s Systems of Violence: The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia (SUNY Press, Albany, NY: 2002),” Contemporary Sociology (Spring, 2003, pp. 625-626).
