Richard Funderburg

Richard Funderburg is an associate professor in the School of Public Management and Policy and a collaborating scholar at the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, where he is a member of the Fiscal and Economic Policy working group. He earned his Ph.D. in Planning, Policy, and Design at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Funderburg also holds a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree from California State University, Sacramento. Professor Funderburg is an expert on state and local economic development policy. He has published over 15 studies of economic development in peer-reviewed urban planning and regional science journals. Professor Funderburg has extensive experience advising state and local governments, including appointments with the California Department of Finance and the California Employment Development Department. Dr. Funderburg is actively engaged in the local community, where he serves as a commissioner on the Village of Chatham Planning Commission. Rick teaches budget and finance, economics and public policy, information for decision making, community planning and policy, community economic development, and public management.

Recent Publications:

(In Press) Funderburg, R., T. Dooley, and T. Bland. â¿¿Community Affluence as a Barrier to Housing Affordability: The Siting of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Projects and Sustained Inequality in Illinoisâ¿¿s Capital Region.â¿¿ In R. Islam, P. Kraeger, and R. Phillips (Eds.) Social (In)Equality and Community Well-Being. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.

(2022) Funderburg, R. and J. Drucker. â¿¿Why Do Local Governments Award Business Tax Incentives?â¿¿ PA Times, March 11, 2022. Available here.

(2021) Funderburg, R., J. Drucker, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. â¿¿Is Tax Competition Strategic? Spatial Distributions of Business Property Tax Abatements in the Chicago Suburbs,â¿¿ Economic Development Quarterly, 35(1), 66â¿¿83. Available here.

(2020) Drucker, J., R. Funderburg, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. â¿¿Do Local Governments Use Business Tax Incentives to Compensate for High Business Property Taxes?â¿¿ Regional Science and Urban Economics, 81, 103498. Available here.

(2019) Funderburg, R. â¿¿Regional Employment and Housing Impacts of Tax Increment Financing Districts,â¿¿ Regional Studies, 53, 874-886. Available here.

(2018) Drucker, J., R. Funderburg, D. Merriman, and R. Weber. The Use of Business Property Tax Incentives in Cook County, Illinois. Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois. Available here (PDF).

(2016) Lejano, R. and R. Funderburg. â¿¿Geographies of Risk, the Regulatory State, and the Ethic of Care,â¿¿ Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106, 1097-1113. Available here.

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Office Location

PAC 484

School of Public Management and Policy

Phone Number

217-206-7220

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rfund2@uis.edu

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Richard Gilman-Opalsky

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Area of Expertise

Dr. Richard Gilman-Opalskyâ¿¿s teaching and research focus on the history of political philosophy, Continental and contemporary social theory, Marxism, capitalism, autonomist politics, postmodern philosophy, critical theory, global social movements, and feminist philosophy.

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at The New School for Social Research (2006). His M.A. (The New School for Social Research) and B.A. (Hofstra University) are in Philosophy.

He is author of many books, including: Imaginary Power, Real Horizons (2024), The Communism of Love (2020), Riotous Epistemology (2019), Specters of Revolt (2016), Precarious Communism (2014), Spectacular Capitalism (2011), and Unbounded Publics (2008). He is co-editor of Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Reader of Radical Undercurrents (2018).

Spectacular Capitalism was selected as "Book of the Month" for October 2011 by The International Herbert Marcuse Society. Dr. Gilman-Opalsky has published numerous articles in social theory and political philosophy, especially on revolution, global revolts, philosophy of praxis, and capitalism and its culture. He has lectured on his research throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, and China. His work has been published in German, Greek, Spanish, and French.

Dr. Gilman-Opalsky was named University Scholar 2018-2019.

Listen to Dr. Gilman-Opalsky on NPR Illinoisâ¿¿ Community Voices (2022).

BOOKS

Communist Ontologies: An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life (Autonomedia, 2024)

Imaginary Power, Real Horizons: The Practicality of Utopianism (AK Press, 2024)

The Communism of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value (AK Press, 2020).

Riotous Epistemology: Imaginary Power, Art, and Insurrection (Autonomedia / Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, 2019).

Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Reader of Radical Undercurrents (Temple University Press, 2018).

Specters of Revolt: On the Intellect of Insurrection and Philosophy from Below (Repeater Books / Random House, 2016).

Precarious Communism: Manifest Mutations, Manifesto Detourned (Autonomedia, 2014).

Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the Practice of Radical Philosophy (Autonomedia, 2011). Also available in Greek translation.

Unbounded Publics: Transgressive Public Spheres, Zapatismo, and Political Theory (Lexington Books, 2008).

SELECTED ARTICLES

Critical Reflections on Capitalist China: Notes from the China Lectures (Situations Journal, Vol. IX, Nos. 1 and 2).

The Communism of Love: How the COVID pandemic has revealed anew the importance of Marxâ¿¿s Gemeinwesen (Public Seminar at The New School, May 2021).

The Communist Secret of Love (Ill Will Editions, January 2021).

Love: a counterpower to capital worthy of its name (ROAR Magazine, January 2021).

Capitalismo, revuelta y comunidad. Entrevista a Richard Gilman-Opalsky (SociohistÃ³rica, n. 47, e133, Marzo-Agosto 2021).

The Eternal Return of Revolt: A Conversation with Richard Gilman-Opalsky (Ill Will Editions, July 2020).

Spectral Compositions in a Time of Revolt [Co-authored with Stevphen Shukaitis] (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present/ASAP Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press, May 2018.

Revolt as Reason, Reason as Revolt: On the Praxis of Philosophy from Below (In Spontaneous Combustion: The Eros Effect and Global Revolution, Edited by Jason Del Gandio and AK Thompson, SUNY Press, 2017).

The Ferguson Revolt Did Not Take Place (The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, May 2015).

Marxism Not Statism: Autonomist Trajectories in the 21^st Century (Left Curve: Journal of Art, Critical Culture, Theory and Politics, Number 38, June 2014).

The Reasonable â¿¿Madnessâ¿¿ of Revolt (Fifth Estate, Volume 48, Number 2, Issue 390, Fall/Winter 2013).

Becoming-Ghost, Specters of Revolt: The Ghosts of Geist and Capital (SolidaritÃ©: Journal of Radical Theory, Volume 1, Number 2, August 2013).

Unjamming the Insurrectionary Imagination: Rescuing DÃ©tournement from the Liberal Complacencies of Culture Jamming (Theory in Action, Volume 6, Number 3, July 2013).

Beyond the Old Virtue of Struggle: Autonomy, Talent, and Revolutionary Theory (Rhizomes Journal, Issue Number 24, 2012).

Why New Socialist Theory Needs Guy Debord: On the Practice of Radical Philosophy (Crisis, Politics, and Critical Sociology, Edited by Graham Cassano and Richard A. Dello Buono, Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 17, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012).

Upheaval as Philosophy: Eleven Theses on Guy Debord (Left Curve: Journal of Art, Critical Culture, Theory and Politics, Number 35, April 2011).

Selectively Forgetting Baudrillard: Rescuing Praxis from the Wreckage (Theory in Action, Volume 3, Number 2, April 2010).