Dennis Canterbury

Professor Emeritus - Sociology
Sociology, Anthropology, Criminology and Social Work

Biography

Dr. Canterbury is an accomplished scholar with specializations in the Sociology of Development and the Sociology of Labor. He is the author of four books - Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism; European Bloc Imperialism; Migration and Capital Accumulation; and Neoextractivism and Capitalist Development, and numerous journal articles and book chapters. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Binghamton University (State University of New York).

Research Interests

The extractive industries
Caribbean development
Financialization, migration and trade

Teaching Interests

Sociology of Globalization
Sociology of Development
Sociology of Labor

Publications

Neoextractivism and Capitalist Development, London and New York, Rutgers, 2018.

"Neoliberal Financialization: The 'New' Imperial Monetary and Financial Arrangements in the Caribbean", The CLR James Journal, Volume 22, Not. 1&2, Fall 2016

"Natural Resources Extraction and Politics in Guyana", The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 3, No. 3, July 2016

"Extractive Capitalism and the Resistance in Guyana", in James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer ed., Extractive Imperialism in the Americas: Capitalism's New Frontier, Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2015