Nick Stevenson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3589454 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nick Stevenson |
| NOMBRES | Nick |
| APELLIDO | Stevenson |
| FIRMA | STEVENSON N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0602-4156 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 149 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The paths of utopian socialism
The politics of the coming ecological catastrophe has been widely debated within recent sociology. There is within this context an urgent need to develop more critical and pedagogic forms of theoretical reflection that are connected to radical social movements, education and more critical intellectual movements for change. In this respect, I explore an approach drawn from critical theory and critical pedagogy centred on the philosophical contribu…
Moral Socialism and Liberal Citizenship
The current crisis of liberal democracy has led to a reconsideration of the idea of socialism. This article seeks to critically compare three different approaches to socialism, all of which draw on specifically moral criteria. The first is a form of liberal socialism that has a long history in critical theory and has most recently been re-imagined by Axel Honneth through a theory of recognition. The second is a conservative version of socialism, …
Moral Progress in Dark Times by Markus Gabriel
Herbert Marcuse as a Critical Intellectual
A reassessment of Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory is timely given the recent revival of interest in his life and work and the critical questions he poses for the endemic violence of late capitalism. This essay considers Marcuse’s ideas on liberation and a postwork future from the viewpoint of the 1960s before examining attempts to relocate his scholarship in the present. The essay focuses on the dialectical nature of Marcuse’s writings and poin…
The cultural production of Cabaret Voltaire
This article explores the contribution of Cabaret Voltaire to the history of industrial and electronic music in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Heavily influenced by the music of Kraftwerk, the Cabs drew upon the dystopian landscapes of William Burroughs to create a paranoid soundscape. Like Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire’s music was influenced by the artistic movements of the twentieth century (most prominently Dada) and drew upon modernist techniq…
Critical theory in the Anthropocene
The politics of the Anthropocene has been widely debated within recent sociological theory. This article seeks to argue that Marxism, critical theory and especially the work of Herbert Marcuse have a great deal to contribute to these debates. Here, I seek to link together the recent revival of interest in the idea of the commons by the alter-globalisation movement and Marxist social theory in an attempt to challenge some of the dominant assumptio…
Radical democracy and the imagination of the commons
Until recently it has been argued that we live in the age of populism. Political parties, both Left and Right, have sought to take advantage of this moment to further their respective political projects. Here, I return to the seminal work of Jim McGuigan and his carefully judged critique of cultural populism that was prominent within cultural studies during the 1990s. Returning to many of the questions raised by McGuigan, I seek to argue that cul…
Raymond Williams and the politics of the commons
The first part of this article seeks to return to some of the questions posed by Raymond Williams in respect of the critical role that could be played by art in the struggle for a world beyond capitalism. Here I defend the performativity of public intellectuals like Williams as he sought to reconnect ideas produced in the academy to social movements and artistic forms of production which remain necessary in the age of austerity and ecological fra…
Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom
Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons
This article investigates the possibilities for the emergence of more participatory forms of citizenship in the context of austerity Europe. Especially significant in this regard is the history of the post-war New Left who were critical of both social democracy and authoritarian Marxism. In this context I reconsider the radical ‘humanistic’ writing of E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams. Not only does their work offer a critical understanding of t…
Revolution from Above in English Schools
The ideas of the New Left and the recently emerged alter-globalisation movements are marginal within current policy debates concerning the English education system. Here I seek to demonstrate the interconnections between the New Left and the alter-globalisation movement and suggest that these ideas contain a powerful corrective to the increasingly authoritarian present. The next part of the article considers the development of neoliberalism both …
Jazz as cultural modernity
In this article I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of jazz music and ask whether it currently exists as anything other than a postmodern commodity. I seek to investigate the practice of jazz in the 1950s and 1960s and argue that it sought to redefine what was meant by freedom. The aesthetic disputes of this period among musicians and critics around the practice of modernist (be-bop and free jazz) jazz music have played a crucial role …
The Socialist Blues? Citizenship, Class and Civil Society
This article seeks to explore the relationship between the British labour movement, the Left and the Labour party. It does so through the intellectual prism of debates around citizenship and civil society. In this respect, I seek to recover a critical politics around questions of class from the New Left who were always critical of more mainstream ideas of citizenship. However, I also point to the limitations of those who have argued that meaningf…
Human(e) Rights and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
Here I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of the idea of human rights. The argument begins by considering the popularity of the idea of human rights in a globalized and fast-moving commodified and digital culture. At this point I consider whether the idea of human rights might be considered to be a modern utopia similar to the role that art and nature played in the Romantic movements of the 19th century. Further, I defend human rights a…
European ‘Cultural’ Social Democracy
Este artículo pretende replantear el tema de la libertad en relación a la democracia social del pasado, del presente y del futuro. Argumento que gran parte del debate contemporáneo sobre la izquierda social demócrata europea pone el énfasis en una agenda comunitaria. A pesar de algunos de sus puntos fuertes este debate es problemático porque deja de lado cuestiones relativas a la libertad y temáticas de orden global. Vuelvo al liberalismo social …
Cosmopolitan Education and Cultural Citizenship
This article seeks to investigate which kind of educational ethos would be most appropriate for a cosmopolitan Europe. It rejects the idea of the world citizen and narrow forms of nationalism for a genuinely European cosmopolitanism that seeks to learn the lessons of Europe’s often violent past while seeking to develop an education that is implicitly concerned with questions of democracy and human rights in its contents as well as its practice. D…
Sociology in the Age of Celebrity
Localization as subpolitics
This article seeks to critically debate the subpolitical potential of the Transition Movement. As a relatively new social movement the Transition Movement seeks to promote a genuinely engaged form of citizenship from below. This is a radical social movement that is at odds with the current neoliberal consensus. Here I look at the key aims and intellectuals associated with the movement and seek to review the idea of localization in the context of …
Delivering comprehensive home-based care programmes for HIV
Home-based care (HBC) programmes in low- and middle-income countries have evolved over the course of the past two decades in response to the HIV epidemic and wider availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Evidence is emerging from small-scale and well-resourced studies that ART delivery can be effectively incorporated within HBC programmes. However, before this approach can be expanded, it is necessary to consider the lessons learned from im…
Education, neoliberalism and cultural citizenship
This article seeks to investigate the idea of cultural citizenship in the context of current debates within neoliberalism. It argues that the notion of the knowledge economy displaces earlier critical debates in respect of how a cultural politics of education might develop within a democratic society. Further, it investigates the rise of entrepreneurial television programming and academy-style schools within the British context.These developments…
Critical Pedagogy, Democracy, and Capitalism
Raymond Williams (1975/1989) once tried to explain why, despite the social and cultural transformations of the twentieth century, he remained a socialist. The reason for his refusal to adopt the mo
Cultural citizenship, education and democracy
This article explores notions of the good society in relation to recent debates in cultural citizenship. Criticising Kantian approaches to citizenship, the article urges scholars to discuss competing notions of the good. In this respect, I critically outline the work of Hannah Arendt and her ideas concerning the importance of a sense of responsibility for the maintenance of the public realm. In particular I focus on her ideas related to education…
European Democratic Socialism, Multiculturalism and the Third Way
The tradition of European democratic socialism continues to be central to current debates in respect of the provision of comprehensive forms of education in the British national context. Focusing on the writing of Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams I outline their different if related attempts to rethink the provision of ‘public’ forms of education. Through an analysis of their distinctive contributions the argument seeks to defend the importan…
Talking to Bowie fans
Drawing upon recent interviews of `lifelong' Bowie fans, this article contributes to debates in respect of celebrity and audience studies. In contrast with other approaches to fan identities, it emphasizes the extent to which the fan experience is a gendered way of handling a number of existential questions in respect of individualization processes. Star-texts act as a `guide' or cultural resource to help many men and women deal with a number of …
Cultural Citizenship
Making Sense of Men's Lifestyle Magazines
In this paper we document the rapid growth of the British men's 'lifestyle' magazine market and explore its significance in terms of men's changing identities and gender relations. By drawing on focus-group discussions with men of different class, age, and regional and ethnic backgrounds, we contrast two ways of thinking about these magazines. The first employs a distinction between 'surface' and 'depth', and suggests that the magazines signal on…
Talking to Bowie fans
Drawing upon recent interviews of `lifelong' Bowie fans, this article contributes to debates in respect of celebrity and audience studies. In contrast with other approaches to fan identities, it emphasizes the extent to which the fan experience is a gendered way of handling a number of existential questions in respect of individualization processes. Star-texts act as a `guide' or cultural resource to help many men and women deal with a number of …
Globalization, National Cultures and Cultural Citizenship
The article develops an argument in respect of the media of mass communication, globalization processes and what I call cultural citizenship. In the first instance, I argue that in the British and European contexts that national cultures remain more powerful constructions than many postcolonial and postmodern critics seem aware. Secondly, in respect of cultural citizenship, I argue for a three layered component in respect of: (1) the emergence of…
The politics of ‘new’ men’s lifestyle magazines
The article seeks to ask some ‘political’ questions in respect of the recent publishing success of men’s lifestyle magazines. What implications does the mass popularity of such magazines have for the social construction of masculinity, and how might we account for their success among young men? In particular we focus upon the content of the magazines, and seek to understand what is genuinely ‘new’ about them. In this respect we discuss the magazi…
Cultural citizenship, education and democracy
This article explores notions of the good society in relation to recent debates in cultural citizenship. Criticising Kantian approaches to citizenship, the article urges scholars to discuss competing notions of the good. In this respect, I critically outline the work of Hannah Arendt and her ideas concerning the importance of a sense of responsibility for the maintenance of the public realm. In particular I focus on her ideas related to education…
Cultural Citizenship in the 'Cultural' Society
This article seeks to develop a model of cultural citizenship suitable for a cosmopolitan age. A variety of themes and issues are raised: the continued importance of democratic notions of ‘civil’ society, questions of cultural exclusion, the impact of the development of the media of mass communication, globalisation and identity politics. In particular, the argument stresses the continued importance of Habermas and Foucault to ‘cultural’ understa…
Critical theory in the Anthropocene
The politics of the Anthropocene has been widely debated within recent sociological theory. This article seeks to argue that Marxism, critical theory and especially the work of Herbert Marcuse have a great deal to contribute to these debates. Here, I seek to link together the recent revival of interest in the idea of the commons by the alter-globalisation movement and Marxist social theory in an attempt to challenge some of the dominant assumptio…
Localization as subpolitics
This article seeks to critically debate the subpolitical potential of the Transition Movement. As a relatively new social movement the Transition Movement seeks to promote a genuinely engaged form of citizenship from below. This is a radical social movement that is at odds with the current neoliberal consensus. Here I look at the key aims and intellectuals associated with the movement and seek to review the idea of localization in the context of …
Care in the time of catastrophe
(2003). Care in the time of catastrophe: Citizenship, community and the ecological imagination. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 235-246
Consumer Culture, Ecology and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan Citizenship
This article argues that the study of citizenship needs to be engaged with questions raised by consumer cultures and ecological concerns. The article begins by investigating the different ways in which we might view contemporary consumer societies from the vantage point of citizenship. I go on to examine the relationship between citizenship and environmental questions. Finally, I argue that the social transformations brought about by the developm…
Education, neoliberalism and cultural citizenship
This article seeks to investigate the idea of cultural citizenship in the context of current debates within neoliberalism. It argues that the notion of the knowledge economy displaces earlier critical debates in respect of how a cultural politics of education might develop within a democratic society. Further, it investigates the rise of entrepreneurial television programming and academy-style schools within the British context.These developments…
Critical Pedagogy, Democracy, and Capitalism
Raymond Williams (1975/1989) once tried to explain why, despite the social and cultural transformations of the twentieth century, he remained a socialist. The reason for his refusal to adopt the mo
European Cosmopolitan Solidarity
The idea of a cosmopolitan Europe continues to be central to contemporary debates within post-national citizenship. However, much of the writing in this area remains disconnected from the need to reinvent European social democracy that questions the centrality of work and racist nationalism. This article argues that a revived European Left would need to move beyond specifically liberal concerns with procedure to articulate a view of European futu…
Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
This paper argues that the study of citizenship needs to engage with both cosmopolitan and multicultural questions. Despite their difference social and political theory needs to find new ways to bring these concerns together. In particular it is argued that such a venture is only possible if cosmopolitanism opens questions of cultural identity, and multiculturalism decouples itself from specifically national concerns. These moves are likely to br…
Radical democracy and the imagination of the commons
Until recently it has been argued that we live in the age of populism. Political parties, both Left and Right, have sought to take advantage of this moment to further their respective political projects. Here, I return to the seminal work of Jim McGuigan and his carefully judged critique of cultural populism that was prominent within cultural studies during the 1990s. Returning to many of the questions raised by McGuigan, I seek to argue that cul…
Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Democracy
(2002). Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Democracy: Politics, Culture and the Self. New Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 251-267
Cultural studies or cultural political economy? Cues from the long revolution
Herbert Marcuse as a Critical Intellectual
A reassessment of Herbert Marcuse’s critical theory is timely given the recent revival of interest in his life and work and the critical questions he poses for the endemic violence of late capitalism. This essay considers Marcuse’s ideas on liberation and a postwork future from the viewpoint of the 1960s before examining attempts to relocate his scholarship in the present. The essay focuses on the dialectical nature of Marcuse’s writings and poin…
The Socialist Blues? Citizenship, Class and Civil Society
This article seeks to explore the relationship between the British labour movement, the Left and the Labour party. It does so through the intellectual prism of debates around citizenship and civil society. In this respect, I seek to recover a critical politics around questions of class from the New Left who were always critical of more mainstream ideas of citizenship. However, I also point to the limitations of those who have argued that meaningf…
European cosmopolitanism and civil society
The discussion of European cosmopolitanism and civil society has failed to take questions of culture seriously enough. While remaining sympathetic to liberal forms of cosmopolitanism, this article considers the view that such proposals fail to make space for the 'Other'. In the context of histories of nationalist violence, masculinism and consumerism this article discusses the charge that ideas of European civilization need to be reconsidered. In…
Reading Men's Lifestyle Magazines
Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons
This article investigates the possibilities for the emergence of more participatory forms of citizenship in the context of austerity Europe. Especially significant in this regard is the history of the post-war New Left who were critical of both social democracy and authoritarian Marxism. In this context I reconsider the radical ‘humanistic’ writing of E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams. Not only does their work offer a critical understanding of t…
Revolution from Above in English Schools
The ideas of the New Left and the recently emerged alter-globalisation movements are marginal within current policy debates concerning the English education system. Here I seek to demonstrate the interconnections between the New Left and the alter-globalisation movement and suggest that these ideas contain a powerful corrective to the increasingly authoritarian present. The next part of the article considers the development of neoliberalism both …
Human(e) Rights and the Cosmopolitan Imagination
Here I seek to explore the cosmopolitan foundations of the idea of human rights. The argument begins by considering the popularity of the idea of human rights in a globalized and fast-moving commodified and digital culture. At this point I consider whether the idea of human rights might be considered to be a modern utopia similar to the role that art and nature played in the Romantic movements of the 19th century. Further, I defend human rights a…
Cosmopolitan Education and Cultural Citizenship
This article seeks to investigate which kind of educational ethos would be most appropriate for a cosmopolitan Europe. It rejects the idea of the world citizen and narrow forms of nationalism for a genuinely European cosmopolitanism that seeks to learn the lessons of Europe’s often violent past while seeking to develop an education that is implicitly concerned with questions of democracy and human rights in its contents as well as its practice. D…
Critical Theory, Ideology, and Television
(1995). Critical Theory, Ideology, and Television. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 75-88
Global media and technological change
This article argues that the technological development and globalisation of the media has important implications for questions of cultural citizenship. In particular these questions are explored through an enduring set of 'cultural' issues that might be connected to questions of social justice, recognition and hermeneutic concerns with meaningfulness. These questions arguably pose more fundamental questions for critical theory than those traditio…
Globalization, National Cultures and Cultural Citizenship
The article develops an argument in respect of the media of mass communication, globalization processes and what I call cultural citizenship. In the first instance, I argue that in the British and European contexts that national cultures remain more powerful constructions than many postcolonial and postmodern critics seem aware. Secondly, in respect of cultural citizenship, I argue for a three layered component in respect of: (1) the emergence of…
Cultural studies or cultural political economy? Cues from the long revolution
Contraflows in Critical Theory
Making Sense of Men's Lifestyle Magazines
In this paper we document the rapid growth of the British men's 'lifestyle' magazine market and explore its significance in terms of men's changing identities and gender relations. By drawing on focus-group discussions with men of different class, age, and regional and ethnic backgrounds, we contrast two ways of thinking about these magazines. The first employs a distinction between 'surface' and 'depth', and suggests that the magazines signal on…
The Future of Public Media Cultures
This paper seeks to tie in the arguments that can be connected to the development of a global media culture and concerns around cosmopolitan forms of democracy. This is done by considering arguments for: (i) a global human right initiative in respect of global media conglomerates; (ii) technological change in respect of digital cultures; and (iii) the arrival of what Castells'shas described as the culture of 'real virtuality'. These views and per…
The politics of ‘new’ men’s lifestyle magazines
The article seeks to ask some ‘political’ questions in respect of the recent publishing success of men’s lifestyle magazines. What implications does the mass popularity of such magazines have for the social construction of masculinity, and how might we account for their success among young men? In particular we focus upon the content of the magazines, and seek to understand what is genuinely ‘new’ about them. In this respect we discuss the magazi…
Books Reviewed
Culture and Citizenship
'Culture and Citizenship' provides a discussion of the links between the contested concepts of culture and citizenship. It shows how culture and citizenship are interlinked, and explores key topics related to this interface
Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Democracy
(2002). Cosmopolitanism and the Future of Democracy: Politics, Culture and the Self. New Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 251-267
Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship
This paper argues that the study of citizenship needs to engage with both cosmopolitan and multicultural questions. Despite their difference social and political theory needs to find new ways to bring these concerns together. In particular it is argued that such a venture is only possible if cosmopolitanism opens questions of cultural identity, and multiculturalism decouples itself from specifically national concerns. These moves are likely to br…
Consumer Culture, Ecology and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan Citizenship
This article argues that the study of citizenship needs to be engaged with questions raised by consumer cultures and ecological concerns. The article begins by investigating the different ways in which we might view contemporary consumer societies from the vantage point of citizenship. I go on to examine the relationship between citizenship and environmental questions. Finally, I argue that the social transformations brought about by the developm…
Care in the time of catastrophe
(2003). Care in the time of catastrophe: Citizenship, community and the ecological imagination. Journal of Human Rights: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 235-246
Cultural Citizenship in the 'Cultural' Society
This article seeks to develop a model of cultural citizenship suitable for a cosmopolitan age. A variety of themes and issues are raised: the continued importance of democratic notions of ‘civil’ society, questions of cultural exclusion, the impact of the development of the media of mass communication, globalisation and identity politics. In particular, the argument stresses the continued importance of Habermas and Foucault to ‘cultural’ understa…
Reading Men's Lifestyle Magazines
European cosmopolitanism and civil society
The discussion of European cosmopolitanism and civil society has failed to take questions of culture seriously enough. While remaining sympathetic to liberal forms of cosmopolitanism, this article considers the view that such proposals fail to make space for the 'Other'. In the context of histories of nationalist violence, masculinism and consumerism this article discusses the charge that ideas of European civilization need to be reconsidered. In…
What isSafe? Cultural Citizenship, Visual Culture and Risk
Questions of cultural citizenship and risk have become central to contemporary sociological debates. This paper seeks to relate these concerns to a discussion of ecological citizenship and questions of visual and commercial culture. In the first section, I argue that ecological citizenship needs to avoid a moralistic rejection of the pleasures of contemporary visual and consumer culture. Such a possibility I argue has become evident in recent deb…
Citizenship and the ‘Other’
International audience
European Cosmopolitan Solidarity
The idea of a cosmopolitan Europe continues to be central to contemporary debates within post-national citizenship. However, much of the writing in this area remains disconnected from the need to reinvent European social democracy that questions the centrality of work and racist nationalism. This article argues that a revived European Left would need to move beyond specifically liberal concerns with procedure to articulate a view of European futu…
Technological Citizenship
This article draws out the different models of technological citizenship that are available in the writing of Castells and Virilio. Particular attention is paid to the importance of local ecological struggles against the imperatives of technological capitalism. However both Castells and Virilio contain strengths and weaknesses in this respect. Whereas Castells emphasises the contested nature of modernity, Virilio emphasis the dominance of technol…
The Ideas and Practices of Culture
Cultural Citizenship
Cultural Citizenship
The idea of cultural citizenship in the social sciences has emerged through two main phases of debate. Firstly there was an attempt to extend the categories of citizenship to include questions of culture. Here there was a retracing of the debates on citizenship that was largely concerned with questions of rights and duties in the context of national societies to include issues related to culture. This work owed a great deal to attempts to link so…
European Democratic Socialism, Multiculturalism and the Third Way
The tradition of European democratic socialism continues to be central to current debates in respect of the provision of comprehensive forms of education in the British national context. Focusing on the writing of Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams I outline their different if related attempts to rethink the provision of ‘public’ forms of education. Through an analysis of their distinctive contributions the argument seeks to defend the importan…
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