Lecturer in Political Economy and Organisation

Contact Details

• Tel: +44(0) 116 252 2008
• Email: km256@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 610, Level 6, Ken Edwards building
• Office hours: TBC

Biography

I joined the School of Management in April 2011, having previously taught at the University of Leeds. I hold a PhD in Politics, an MA in Cultural Studies and a BA in Political Studies

Research Interests

My research interests range across alternative forms of organization; value production and sustainability; social movements and anticapitalism; post-structuralist theory; networked production and collaborative technologies; and contemporary changes in the experience of work. I am a member of the writing collective The Free Association and an editor of Turbulence: Ideas for Movement.

Teaching

MN1005 Business Environment (core 1st-year module on BA Management Studies)
MN2125 Crisis/Management (optional 2nd-year module on BA Management Studies)

Most Recent Publications

Books
The Free Association (2011) Moments of Excess: Movements, Protest and Everyday Life, Oakland, CA: PM Press.

Turbulence Collective (2010) eds, What Would it Mean to Win?, Oakland, CA: PM Press.

Book chapters
Harvie, David and Keir Milburn (forthcoming) ‘Capitalism/anticapitalism’. In Pauline MacLaren, Martin Parker, Liz Parsons and Mark Tadajewski (eds) Key Concepts in Critical Management Studies, London: Sage.

The Free Association (2010) ‘Worlds in motion’. In Turbulence Collective (ed.), What Would it Mean to Win?, Oakland, CA: PM Press: 98–104.

Turbulence Collective (2010) ‘Move into the light? Postscript to a turbulent 2007’. In Turbulence Collective (ed.), What Would it Mean to Win?, Oakland, CA: PM Press: 121–132.

Journal articles
Harvie, David and Keir Milburn (2010) ‘How organizations value and how value organizes’, Organization, 17(5): 631–636.

The Free Association (2010) ‘Antagonism, neoliberalism and movements: six impossible things before breakfast’, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 42(4): 1019–1033.

Full listing of publications

Books
Harvie, David, Keir Milburn, Ben Trott and David Watts (2005) eds, Shut Them Down! The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements, Leeds: Dissent! and Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.

Book Chapters
Leeds May Day Group (2008), ‘Anti-Capitalist Movements’. In Werner Bonefeld (ed), Subverting The Present — Imagining The Future: Insurrection, Movement, Commons, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia: 127–138.

The Free Association (2005) ‘On the Road’. In David Harvie, Keir Milburn, Ben Trott and David Watts (eds), Shut Them Down! The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements , Leeds: Dissent! and Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia: 17–26. Download PDF

Milburn, K. (2004) ‘Italy’s Disobedients: Return of the Tortoise, Italy’s Anti-Empire Multitudes’, in Solnit, D. (ed.) Globalize Liberation San Francisco, City Lights, pp.469-480.

Journal Articles
Turbulence Collective (2007) ‘Move into the light? Postscript to a turbulent 2007’, ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 7(4): 588–600. Download PDF

The Free Association (2005) ‘Event Horizon’, ephemera: theory & politics in organization, 5(4): 568–579. Download PDF

Other Publications

Milburn, K. Russel, B. (2011) From the Defence of the Present to the Control of the Future, Shift Magazine, 11.

The Free Association [Harvie, D., Milburn, K. and Watts, D.]  (2009) ‘Speculating on the Crisis’, Shift Magazine, 5.

Turbulence Collective [Harvie, D., Milburn, K. Mueller. T. Nunez, R. Osterweil, M. Summer, K. Trott, B.] (2008) Move into the Light: Postscript to a turbulent 2007, San Francisco: PM Press.

Turbulence Collective [Harvie, D., Milburn, K. Mueller. T. Nunez, R. Osterweil, M. Summer, K. Trott, B.] (2008) ‘Em direção à luz?’ [Move into the Light?], Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, 16 July.

Turbulence Collective [Harvie, D., Milburn, K. Mueller. T. Nunez, R. Osterweil, M. Summer, K. Trott, B.] (2008) ‘Ins Licht hinein? Epilog zu einem turbulenten Jahr 2007′ [‘Move into the Light’], AK - Analyse & Kritik. January. Also published in Grundrisse: zeitschrift fuer linke theorie und debatte, 25.

Evans, B. and Milburn, K. (2007) ‘The Untimely Event’, Re-public: Time and Governance II
The Free Association [Harvie, D., Milburn, K. and Watts, D.]  (2007) ‘Worlds in Motion’, Turbulence: Ideas for Movement 1.

The Free Association [Harvie, D., Milburn, K. and Watts, D.]  (2007) ‘G8 protest: does it really work?’ In The Big Issue (Scotland), 633, 31 May–6 June: 15.

Evans, B. and Milburn, K. (2006) ‘Autonomous Voices’, The Anomalist  2.

Milburn, K. (2005) ‘The Multitude in the Crowd’, The Anomalist 1.

Evans, B. and Milburn, K. (2005) ‘The Multitude Continent’, The Anomalist 1.

Leeds Mayday Group [Dennis, A., Harvie, D. Humphries, N. Milburn, K. and Watts, D.] (2002) ‘Che cos’è il movimento?’ [What is the movement?], Derive Approdi, pp. 74–77.

Leeds May Day Group [Dennis, A. Harvie, D. Humphries, N. Milburn, K. and Watts, D.] (2002) ‘England - What is the Movement?’ [in German], arranca!, 25: Grand Prix d’Eurovision - Politische Bewegungen in Europa (FelS - Fuer eine linke Stroemung): pp. 26–29.

K. Milburn (2000) ‘DIY Culture - A Review’, Capital and Class; 72, pp. 223-225.

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