Writings

Recent publications:

• Chis, I., C. (2026)  ‘Multimethod Research on Precarious Work under Disabling Capitalism: Methodological Reflections, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology / Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 169-170(1): 236-258. doi.org/10.1177/07591063261424240
• Chis, I., C., Danaparamita, A., Theodoropoulos, P., Planas Balduz, E., Introna, A., Davison, J., Wånggren, L., Sherwin, W., Gokmenoglu, B., Forkert, K., Graziano, V., Mars, M., and Medak, T. (2026) ‘Book Review Symposium for Valeria Graziano, Marcell Mars, and Tomislav Medak (2025). Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalization of Solidarity’, Postdigital Science and Education Journal, 0(00): 1-27. 10.1177/07591063261424240
  • The pre-print is available here; the article is available here

• Interviewed by Robert Chapman in March 2025 – Autonomist Marxism, disability and precarious work, RS21
• Chis, I., C. (2025) ‘The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work project‘, European Sociological Association – June

• Chis, I., C. (2024) ‘Engaging with the politics of structural disablement through Political Studies‘, Political Studies Association – September
• Chis, I.C. (2024) ‘Theorising Disablement through the Collective-Materialist Approach to Disabling Capitalism’, International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 4(2): 25-47. doi.org/10.13169/intljofdissocjus.4.2.0025
• Chis, I., C. (2024) ‘Contesting the Service Model of “Care” in Disabling Capitalism: A Disability Politics Perspective’, International Journal of Care and Caring, 10(1): 206-223. doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000053

• Chis, I., C. (2023)‘The Centrality of Disablement Subjectivation to the Reproduction of Capitalist Social Relations: Considerations for Critical and Global Political Economy’, Global Political Economy Journal, 2(2): 164-184. doi.org/10.1332/GIEJ7083
• Chis, I., C. (2023) ‘Repositioning work, rest, and resistance in the context of the Spring of Discontent‘, National Survivor User Network’s website.
• Chis, I., C. (2023) ‘Initial Research Report – The Politics of Disablement and Precarious Work’, University of Birmingham Repository, https://doi.org/10.25500/pure.bham.250781974
  • the initial report can also be found on the project’s website

If you are interested in reading my previous work (on various other topics), please visit thinkingthroughtechnics.wordpress.com – a selection is presented below

• Birmingham Autonomous University (2017) ‘Towards an Autonomous University Group’, in Hall, R. and Winn, J. (eds.) Mass Intellectuality and Democratic Leadership in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury.
• Co-authored chapters with Cruickshank, J. in  Cruickshank, J. and Sassower, R. (eds.) (2017) Democratic Problem-Solving: Dialogues in Social Epistemology. London: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Chis, I., C. (2016) ‘Masking the Systematic Violence Perpetuated by Liberalism through the Concept of “Totalitarianism”‘, Politikon: IAPSS Journal of Political Science, Vol. 30.
• Chis, I., C. (2015) ‘Big Data: A Technology of Anxiety’, Oxford Left Review, Issue 15.
• Chis, I., C. (2015) ‘What Should Sociologists Do about Big Data?’, Oxford Left Review (blog).
• Chis, I., C. (2015) ‘The implications of locating the origins of universal equality and liberty within the 18th Century Western revolutions’, Encuentro Latinoamericano: Revista de Ciencia Política & Relaciones Internacionales, 1(1): 53-72.
• Chis, I., C. (2015) ‘United By Strength or Oppression? A Critique of the Western Model of Feminism’, E-International Relations, 29th September.
• Chis, I., C. (2014) ‘The Emergence of Cybernetic Organisms and the Transformation of the Concept of “The Human”‘, The New Birmingham Review, Issue 1.