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Hi! You've reached the homepage of Stephen Philion, Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Cloud State University. It started with this at Fordham University in 1986. I'm now a PhD as of April 2004, when I completed my dissertation at the University of Hawaii on The Discourse of Workers Democracy as a Terrain of Ideological Struggle in the Moment of Transition from State Socialism in China. That dissertation is now being turned into a book titled Workers' Democracy and China's Transition from State-Socialism, to be published by Routledge in 2008. Here's a link to my recent WBAI interview on my book and recent workers' protests in China A taste of the book can be found in an article in the July, 2007 edition of Socialism and Democracy .
When I wasn't teaching, studying, or swimming in Hawaii, This is what I did. I lived for a period of 5 years in Taiwan and almost 2 years in Mainland China researching the impact of privatization (and more broadly Globalization) on workers across the Straits. I have spent much time interviewing laid-off workers and labor movement organizers-supporters throughout Mainland China. I currently reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota, home of one of a number of midwest labor union movement activism bright spots . My most recent article publication, "Is Race Really Controversial in the University Classroom?," is due out in the April, 2009 edition of The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (Email me if you'd like a look at it in pre-publication form).
This year I also published a book review of Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital Journal of World History - Volume 18, Number 4, December 2007, pp. 528-532. An interview I conducted with Chinese Economist Han Deqiang on "The Social Costs of Neo-Liberalism in China" was translated and published in the July, 2007 edition of Dollars and Sense. I also recently co-wrote a piece with Chinese Labor activist Chi Hua responding to Robert Weil on issues of working class activism in China today, published at ZNET. My most recent interview with Jerry Lembcke on Conspiracy Theory, Fears of Betrayal, and the Antiwar Movement was published at Counterpunch.org.
I have contributed to Monthly Review's Webzine with columns on topics such as Privatization and the Failure of US Occupation in Iraq , A Critical Review of So-Called "Sustainable Dialogues" on American Campuses , my interview with the adminstrator of the China Workers Website, and my interview with Jerry Lembcke on the Myth of Spat On Vietnam Vets. At Counterpunch, I wrote a piece titled "Illegal?" Hey Lou Dobbs, Do Ya Really Wanna Go There?" I also recently wrote a little piece for ZNet that I called "Interrupting Neal Conan's Poker Game" Other academic writings that I have published in the last two years include 1) a chapter contribution to the The ASA Teaching Guide for Critical Pedagogy in the Sociology Classroom, cowritten with St. Cloud State Sociology colleague Linda Mhando, in which we criticise the Smorgasbord approach to teaching about race and 2) an article on doing field research on workers' protests against privatization in Mainland China, published in Humanity and Society in November, 2005. See publications page for these two and others or click them on below:
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