James Heartfield
James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian. [1]
Life
[edit]Heartfield has written books on the history of the British Empire, including The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016) and The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration (2019). Heartfield has written for ArtReview, Blueprint, Spiked Online, and the Times Education Supplement. His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by the University of Westminster) was published as The European Union and the End of Politics, in 2013. [2]
In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.[3] Heartfield worked as a vaccinator during the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
Politics
[edit]In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building.[5] Heartfield stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom for Yorkshire and the Humber but did not gain a seat.[6]
Personal life
[edit]He lives in north London and is married with two daughters.[7]
Publications
[edit]- Britain's Empires: A History, 1600–2020 London, Anthem Press, 2022
- The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration London, Zer0 Books, 2019
- The Equal Opportunities Revolution London, Repeater Books, 2017
- The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society London Hurst Books/Oxford University Press, 2016[8]
- Who's Afraid of the Easter Rising? (with Kevin Rooney), London Zer0, Books, 2015
- The European Union and the End of Politics London, Zer0 Books, 2013[9]
- British Workers & the US Civil War London, Reverspective, 2013[10]
- Unpatriotic History of the Second World War London, Zer0 Books, 2012[11]
- The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836–1909 Hurst (London), and Columbia University Press (New York), 2011[12]
- Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance, Openmute, 2008[13]
- Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006)
- Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell, NESTA, 2006
- Creativity Gap Blueprint, 2005
- The "Death of the Subject" Explained Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002[14]
- Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy London, Design Agenda, 2000
- Need and Desire in the Post-material Economy Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998
- Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Ageco-editor with Ian Abley, London, John Wiley, 2002.
References
[edit]- ^ Bickerton, Christopher; Cunliffe, Philip; Gourevitch, Alexander (December 2006). Contributors, James Heartfield, Bickerton et al (eds) Politics Without Sovereignty, 2005, p x. Routledge. ISBN 9781134113866.
- ^ [1] Our Doctoral Research Programme, University of Westminster
- ^ Svetlichnaja, Julia; Heartfield, James (2008). "The Russian Security Service's Ethnic Division and the Elimination of Moscow's Chechen Business Class in the 1990s". Critique. 36 (3): 385–402. doi:10.1080/03017600802434227. S2CID 144709404.
- ^ Heartfield, James (3 March 2022). "I Was a Vaccine Administrator". The Bellows. Archived from the original on 3 March 2022.
- ^ "The Great Debate: Let's Build". 23 October 2007. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007.
- ^ "EU parliamentary elections". www.leeds.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ James Heartfield's homepage for 16 September 2017
- ^ Reviews of The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society:
- Katie Donington, History: The Journal of the Historical Association, doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12653
- Richard R. Follett, History: Reviews of New Books, doi:10.1080/03612759.2018.1412763
- Kevin Grant, The Journal of African History, doi:10.1017/S0021853718001068
- Richard Huzzey, Victorian Studies, doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.59.4.23, JSTOR 10.2979/victorianstudies.59.4.23
- Reinhart Kößler, Peripherie, [2]
- Alex Middleton, The English Historical Review, doi:10.1093/ehr/cey187
- J. R. Oldfield, Journal of British Studies, doi:10.1017/jbr.2017.221
- Dorothy V. Smith, Africa Today, doi:10.2979/africatoday.63.4.10, JSTOR 10.2979/africatoday.63.4.10
- ^ Review of The European Union and the End of Politics:
- Alexandru Drăgulin, Journal of Ethnophilosophical Questions and Global Ethics, [3]
- ^ Review of British Workers & the US Civil War:
- John Asimakopoulos, Theory in Action, ProQuest 1349392042
- ^ Review of Unpatriotic History of the Second World War:
- John Newsinger, Review 31, [4]
- ^ Reviews of The Aborigines' Protection Society:
- Samuel Furphy, Aboriginal History, JSTOR 24047001
- Susan Hinely, Human Rights Review, doi:10.1007/s12142-015-0380-4
- Douglas A. Lorimer, Victorian Studies, doi:10.2979/victorianstudies.56.3.522, JSTOR 10.2979/victorianstudies.56.3.522
- Jane Samson, The Journal of Pacific History, doi:10.1080/00223344.2012.727219, JSTOR 41999451
- Caroline Shaw, Journal of Human Rights, doi:10.1080/14754835.2014.988785
- Rachel Standfield, H-Net Reviews, [5]
- ^ Review of Green Capitalism:
- Nathan Coombs, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, [6]
- ^ Review of The "Death of the Subject" Explained:
- Munira Mirza, International Journal of Cultural Policy, doi:10.1080/10286630902971587