John Kannankulam

John Kannankulam (born January 7, 1972 in Darmstadt ) is a German political scientist .

Life

From 1992 to 2000, Kannankulam completed a master’s degree in political science as a major, as well as American studies and modern German history as minor subjects at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . This was followed by his doctorate with Joachim Hirsch and Bob Jessop with a thesis on authoritarian statism in the theory of the Marxist state theorist Nicos Poulantzas .

From October 2009, Kannankulam was a junior professor at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he has held the professorship for European integration and political economy since 2015 . In addition, he worked with Sonja Buckel and Jens Wissel on the research project The Transnationalization of the State in the Process of Developing a Common European Migration Control Policy.

Kannankulam is a member of the Education and Science Union and the Association for Critical Society Research . In his spare time he is the singer of the ska band Ska Trek, which has been active since 1990 .

Publications (selection)

author

• Authoritarian statism in neoliberalism. On the theory of the state by Nicos Poulantzas. VSA, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89965-280-2 .

editor

• Read Poulantzas. On the topicality of Marxist state theory. Together with Lars Bretthauer / Alexander Gallas / Ingo Stützle . VSA, Hamburg 2006.
• The state of civil society. On the understanding of the state following Karl Marx. Together with Joachim Hirsch and Jens Wissel . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008.
• Struggles over migration policy. Theory, method and analyzes of critical European research. Together with the research group ›State Project Europe‹. Transcript, Bielefeld 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about John Kannankulam in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Marburg
• Private homepage of John Kannankulam