Nick Mansfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 132563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Mansfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Mansfield |
| SIGNATURE | MANSFIELD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0042-6522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Soldiers of Revolution
Osbourne House on the Isle of Wight was Queen Victoria's favorite home and is now cared for by English Heritage. A “Swiss Cottage” in the grounds houses an eclectic museum put together by her children. One of the exhibits is a glass bottle allegedly carried during the Paris Commune of 1871 by a female incendiary (a petroleuse) who was summarily executed by government troops. The object testifies to horrific justification felt by polite Western so…
Bastard Politics
Bastard Politics
Doing Undoing
Swagger replaces politics. Gesture replaces knowledge. Anger displaces art. Authority is overrun by mock-Caesarism and phony science. Catastrophe is run by the government. The world is given over to chancers, cronies and gangsters. Only the cynical and stupid are satisfied. An alarm is going off, but next door. They are throwing open shops and bars, and then all dying, but in another country. We are all, somehow, a little bit guilty, without know…
Subjectivity
Subjectivity and ethnicity
Labour and landscape
Remembering the buildings of the British labour movement
This paper outlines the buildings of the British labour movement. Hitherto, labour activists, historians and heritage professionals have focused on the artefacts and archives as opposed to the many historic buildings of the labour movement. The narrative closely follows the course of the industrial revolution and the accompanying development of the labour movement from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. Examples cover a wide range includin…
‘There Must be Decision’
Later, climate change will also bring with it problems to do with political time and historical time in particular, and in a political culture that has now spent several centuries defining its aims in historical and narrative terms, this will be a revolution, a painstakingly slow one, but a revolution none the less. Given the importance of the concept of justice-whether defined in terms of constitutional legitimacy, institutional legality or soci…
Paternalistic Consumer Co-operatives in Rural England, 1870–1930
The British co-operative movement is associated mainly with industrial areas. Where consumer co-operatives existed in the countryside they were located in market towns and formed by rural trade unions, especially railwaymen, occasionally quarrymen or farmworkers. Yet the Co-operative Union membership encompassed a significant number of small single village societies founded by paternalistic gentry. This paper draws on examples in Shropshire, East…
Christianity Would Not Want a World from which Violence was Excluded
This article explores Georges Bataille's attempts to locate Gilles de Rais (1404-1440)-military figurehead, national hero, serial child-killer, archetype of Bluebeard-in a cultural, historical and political imaginary, and in a religious inscape. Bataille does this in his essay 'The Tragedy of Gilles de Rais', where de Rais finds his place as a remnant of the collapsing world of the feudal seigneur, a world he had outlived, with its military refor…
Derrida, Democracy and Violence
Democracy is usually identified with openness, order and pluralism and thus peace. Yet, everywhere, from the political convulsions that bring it into being to the wars that aim to extend it, democracy is violent. Usually this violence is seen as accidental or forced upon democracy. The aim of this paper is to argue that the violence of democracy springs from its inextricable if denied relationship to revolution, the drive to re-found the politica…
Teaching Illiteracy
In mainstream humanities and social sciences, a traditional humanism has given way to an ethos of cultural difference. One form of cosmopolitanism triumphs over another as the goal of pedagogy. Both these cosmopolitanisms keep alive a model of culture as the thing that texts and practices instantiate, and what explains and locates them. The role of education becomes either knowledge of or at least sensitivity to the invisible parent formation out…
The God Who Deconstructs Himself
The God Who Deconstructs Himself
No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the "war on terror," the issue of the extent and nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode of …
Twenty Paragraphs of Written Instructions
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing reports: A. Moll ... quotes a number of cases of complete masochism ... among them that of a man suffering from sexual perversion, who sent written instructions, containing twe
Sovereignty as its Own Question
War and Its Other
Introduction
Refusing Defeatism
This paper attempts to show how Derrida's thinking on contemporary politics insists on several key themes indispensable to a renewal of democracy. These themes are, firstly, the issue of competence. Technical calculation in the military sphere—what Virilio calls logistics—aims to reduce the subjectivity and responsibility of human decision to zero. This denial of the problem of human competence removes decision-making from the democratic sphere b…
The National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors, 1917-1921
The National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors has hitherto been neglected by historians of the Great War. This paper examines this radical ex-service organization in the context of working class communities and mentalities. This account of its rise and fall focuses on rural areas, especially the Welsh Marches. Here, while there were early and close links with local trade unions, by I9I9 the Federation had become more …
Subjectivity
What am I referring to when I say I? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Where does my sense of self come from? Does it arise spontaneously or is it created by the media or society? This concern with the self, with our subjectivity, is now our main point of reference in Western societies. How has it come to be so important, and what are the different ways in which we can app…
Class Conflict and Village War Memorials, 1914–24
I am persuaded that the Memorial Crosses, in the Churchyards, on the village greens, where the roads meet, will for many years to come cry eloquent but silent protest against all that divides and degrades village life.’ The Bishop of Hereford, 1920
Grads and Snobs
Notes on Museums
Class Conflict and Village War Memorials, 1914–24
I am persuaded that the Memorial Crosses, in the Churchyards, on the village greens, where the roads meet, will for many years to come cry eloquent but silent protest against all that divides and degrades village life.’ The Bishop of Hereford, 1920
Sovereignty as its Own Question
Labour and landscape
The God Who Deconstructs Himself
No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the "war on terror," the issue of the extent and nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode of …
Teaching Illiteracy
In mainstream humanities and social sciences, a traditional humanism has given way to an ethos of cultural difference. One form of cosmopolitanism triumphs over another as the goal of pedagogy. Both these cosmopolitanisms keep alive a model of culture as the thing that texts and practices instantiate, and what explains and locates them. The role of education becomes either knowledge of or at least sensitivity to the invisible parent formation out…
Disciplining Innovations
The editors of the 'Disciplining Innovations' issue introduce the theme
Introductory Sociology
Notes on Museums
Grads and Snobs
Class Conflict and Village War Memorials, 1914–24
I am persuaded that the Memorial Crosses, in the Churchyards, on the village greens, where the roads meet, will for many years to come cry eloquent but silent protest against all that divides and degrades village life.’ The Bishop of Hereford, 1920
Subjectivity
What am I referring to when I say I? This little word is so easy to use in daily life, yet it has become the focus of intense theoretical debate. Where does my sense of self come from? Does it arise spontaneously or is it created by the media or society? This concern with the self, with our subjectivity, is now our main point of reference in Western societies. How has it come to be so important, and what are the different ways in which we can app…
The National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors, 1917-1921
The National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Soldiers and Sailors has hitherto been neglected by historians of the Great War. This paper examines this radical ex-service organization in the context of working class communities and mentalities. This account of its rise and fall focuses on rural areas, especially the Welsh Marches. Here, while there were early and close links with local trade unions, by I9I9 the Federation had become more …
War and Its Other
Introduction
Refusing Defeatism
This paper attempts to show how Derrida's thinking on contemporary politics insists on several key themes indispensable to a renewal of democracy. These themes are, firstly, the issue of competence. Technical calculation in the military sphere—what Virilio calls logistics—aims to reduce the subjectivity and responsibility of human decision to zero. This denial of the problem of human competence removes decision-making from the democratic sphere b…
Sovereignty as its Own Question
Twenty Paragraphs of Written Instructions
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing reports: A. Moll ... quotes a number of cases of complete masochism ... among them that of a man suffering from sexual perversion, who sent written instructions, containing twe
The God Who Deconstructs Himself
The God Who Deconstructs Himself
No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the "war on terror," the issue of the extent and nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode of …
Derrida, Democracy and Violence
Democracy is usually identified with openness, order and pluralism and thus peace. Yet, everywhere, from the political convulsions that bring it into being to the wars that aim to extend it, democracy is violent. Usually this violence is seen as accidental or forced upon democracy. The aim of this paper is to argue that the violence of democracy springs from its inextricable if denied relationship to revolution, the drive to re-found the politica…
Teaching Illiteracy
In mainstream humanities and social sciences, a traditional humanism has given way to an ethos of cultural difference. One form of cosmopolitanism triumphs over another as the goal of pedagogy. Both these cosmopolitanisms keep alive a model of culture as the thing that texts and practices instantiate, and what explains and locates them. The role of education becomes either knowledge of or at least sensitivity to the invisible parent formation out…
‘There Must be Decision’
Later, climate change will also bring with it problems to do with political time and historical time in particular, and in a political culture that has now spent several centuries defining its aims in historical and narrative terms, this will be a revolution, a painstakingly slow one, but a revolution none the less. Given the importance of the concept of justice-whether defined in terms of constitutional legitimacy, institutional legality or soci…
Paternalistic Consumer Co-operatives in Rural England, 1870–1930
The British co-operative movement is associated mainly with industrial areas. Where consumer co-operatives existed in the countryside they were located in market towns and formed by rural trade unions, especially railwaymen, occasionally quarrymen or farmworkers. Yet the Co-operative Union membership encompassed a significant number of small single village societies founded by paternalistic gentry. This paper draws on examples in Shropshire, East…
Christianity Would Not Want a World from which Violence was Excluded
This article explores Georges Bataille's attempts to locate Gilles de Rais (1404-1440)-military figurehead, national hero, serial child-killer, archetype of Bluebeard-in a cultural, historical and political imaginary, and in a religious inscape. Bataille does this in his essay 'The Tragedy of Gilles de Rais', where de Rais finds his place as a remnant of the collapsing world of the feudal seigneur, a world he had outlived, with its military refor…
Labour and landscape
Remembering the buildings of the British labour movement
This paper outlines the buildings of the British labour movement. Hitherto, labour activists, historians and heritage professionals have focused on the artefacts and archives as opposed to the many historic buildings of the labour movement. The narrative closely follows the course of the industrial revolution and the accompanying development of the labour movement from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. Examples cover a wide range includin…
Doing Undoing
Swagger replaces politics. Gesture replaces knowledge. Anger displaces art. Authority is overrun by mock-Caesarism and phony science. Catastrophe is run by the government. The world is given over to chancers, cronies and gangsters. Only the cynical and stupid are satisfied. An alarm is going off, but next door. They are throwing open shops and bars, and then all dying, but in another country. We are all, somehow, a little bit guilty, without know…
Subjectivity
Subjectivity and ethnicity
Bastard Politics
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