W J Berridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 191994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W J Berridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | W J |
| FAMILY NAME | Berridge |
| SIGNATURE | BERRIDGE W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Containing Gender Outlaws, Stigmatizing the Left: Transphobia and Cisgenderism in the Thatcher-era Daily Mail (1979–1990)
This article analyses the formation of cisgenderist and transphobic discourses in the reporting of the Daily Mail during the Thatcher era (1979-1990). It explores the emergence of a discursive strategy that focused on the containment of forms of gender expression that the socially conservative newspaper saw as a threat to the normative understandings of gender that it cherished. At the same time, it discusses how the paper managed the tension bet…
Briefing: The Uprising in Sudan
On 7 March 1985, the railway workers of Sudan’s north-eastern town of Atbara took to the streets to protest against the rise in the price of basic foods decreed by the regime of President Jafa’ar Nimeiri.1 These protests continued for two and a half weeks before the outbreak in Khartoum of the main Intifada, which toppled Nimeiri, his ruling party, and his main state security service. On 19 December 2018, similar protests against rising food pric…
Noah Salomon. For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Noah Salomon’s For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State makes a number of important contributions to the literature on political and religious life in Sudan as well as to the broader literature on the current Islamist wave. One of this book’s core strengths is that it is based on many years of in-depth field research—from 2003 to 2015, particularly between 2003 and 2007—and effectively deploys information gleaned from a ra…
Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan
Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) was seen as one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese history and politics. This book, based on extensive research and a thorough analysis of al-Turabi's own writings, provides a comprehensive study of the upbringing, ideas and political career of the Islamist intellectual and political leader. Balancing hostile and favourable accounts of al-Turabi, it challenges assumptions of the 'Marxist' or 'Fascist' d…
The Battle of Sha’iba, 1915: Ottomanism, British Imperialism and Shia Religious Activism during the Mesopotamian Campaign
This article analyses relations among the Ottoman Empire, British imperialism and Shia religious proto-nationalism in the period before and after the battle of Sha’iba of 1915, one of the pivotal engagements of the Mesopotamian campaign. It illustrates how the narrow victory of the British at the battle led them to draw a number of over-optimistic conclusions regarding their role in Iraq and their ability to co-opt the Arabs of the province again…
The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: From rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989
This article examines the slow eclipse of the rehabilitative ideal within the Sudanese prison system in the period from independence in 1956 till the removal of the third parliamentary regime in 1989. It contends that Jacfar Numayri's ‘Islamization’ of the criminal and penal system in 1983, which has been interpreted by some as an act of religious revival aiming to replace a series of externally imposed and European laws, cannot be understood pur…
Omar al-Bashir and Africa's longest war
The blurb of this text describes it as being simultaneously the ‘first authoritative biography’ of Sudan's much-maligned President Umar al-Bashir as well as a ‘comprehensive military history of Sudan’. This unusual combination leads to something of a hotchpotch structure. Chapters 1 to 3, which act as a potted military and political history of Sudan up until 1989, are evidently not rooted in original research and are marred by a number of tangent…
Imperialist and Nationalist Voices in the Struggle for Egyptian independence, 1919–22
This article explores the role of both pro-nationalist and pro-imperialist voices in Egypt and Britain during the Egyptian revolution of 1919. In doing so, it criticises Edward Said's assumption that the ‘Orientalist’ voice of the British imperialists was integral and unchallenged by demonstrating the extent to which left-wing MPs in the House of Commons were able to air the views of the Egyptian nationalists in the British political scene. It in…
Nests of criminals: Policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964-1989
This article focuses on the strategies adopted by the Sudanese police in dealing with migration from Sudan's rural peripheries to the central urban riverain areas of Sudan, in particular Khartoum. It contends that police policy in these regions demonstrated the limited governmental ambitions of the Sudanese state and its inability, or unwillingness, to individuate its population. It thus shifts the focus of analysis away from debates which emphas…
Ambivalent ideologies and the limitations of the colonial prison in Sudan, 1898-1956
This article investigates the failure of the colonial state in Sudan to establish an extensive and reformative prison system according to the European ideal. It attributes this failure not just to the limited material resources of the colonial state but to its own internal divisions and ambivalent attitude towards the notion of a reformative penal project. This mirrored the state's ambivalent attitude toward other forms of development, education …
What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership’: The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control
The British administrative elite in Sudan represented the Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 as a ‘mutiny’, the result of a combination of both outside provocation and of the character failings of both Sudanese policemen and their British officers. This article will demonstrate that these convenient interpretations concealed a series of wider tensions within the colonial state itself, between modernising legal professionals and colonial administrator…
Object Lessons in Violence: The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Object Lessons in Violence:The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 W.J. Berridge Introduction "From a collection of reasonable individuals, a crowd can quickly become a solid, united mass, capable of any violence and reckless of the consequences."2 The words of Thomas Russell, the commandant of the Cairo police at the time of the Egyptian revolution of 1919, echoed the ideas of contemporary c…
What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership’: The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control
The British administrative elite in Sudan represented the Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 as a ‘mutiny’, the result of a combination of both outside provocation and of the character failings of both Sudanese policemen and their British officers. This article will demonstrate that these convenient interpretations concealed a series of wider tensions within the colonial state itself, between modernising legal professionals and colonial administrator…
Briefing: The Uprising in Sudan
On 7 March 1985, the railway workers of Sudan’s north-eastern town of Atbara took to the streets to protest against the rise in the price of basic foods decreed by the regime of President Jafa’ar Nimeiri.1 These protests continued for two and a half weeks before the outbreak in Khartoum of the main Intifada, which toppled Nimeiri, his ruling party, and his main state security service. On 19 December 2018, similar protests against rising food pric…
Nests of criminals: Policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964-1989
This article focuses on the strategies adopted by the Sudanese police in dealing with migration from Sudan's rural peripheries to the central urban riverain areas of Sudan, in particular Khartoum. It contends that police policy in these regions demonstrated the limited governmental ambitions of the Sudanese state and its inability, or unwillingness, to individuate its population. It thus shifts the focus of analysis away from debates which emphas…
Ambivalent ideologies and the limitations of the colonial prison in Sudan, 1898-1956
This article investigates the failure of the colonial state in Sudan to establish an extensive and reformative prison system according to the European ideal. It attributes this failure not just to the limited material resources of the colonial state but to its own internal divisions and ambivalent attitude towards the notion of a reformative penal project. This mirrored the state's ambivalent attitude toward other forms of development, education …
The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: From rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989
This article examines the slow eclipse of the rehabilitative ideal within the Sudanese prison system in the period from independence in 1956 till the removal of the third parliamentary regime in 1989. It contends that Jacfar Numayri's ‘Islamization’ of the criminal and penal system in 1983, which has been interpreted by some as an act of religious revival aiming to replace a series of externally imposed and European laws, cannot be understood pur…
What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership’: The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control
The British administrative elite in Sudan represented the Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 as a ‘mutiny’, the result of a combination of both outside provocation and of the character failings of both Sudanese policemen and their British officers. This article will demonstrate that these convenient interpretations concealed a series of wider tensions within the colonial state itself, between modernising legal professionals and colonial administrator…
Object Lessons in Violence: The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Object Lessons in Violence:The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 W.J. Berridge Introduction "From a collection of reasonable individuals, a crowd can quickly become a solid, united mass, capable of any violence and reckless of the consequences."2 The words of Thomas Russell, the commandant of the Cairo police at the time of the Egyptian revolution of 1919, echoed the ideas of contemporary c…
Nests of criminals: Policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964-1989
This article focuses on the strategies adopted by the Sudanese police in dealing with migration from Sudan's rural peripheries to the central urban riverain areas of Sudan, in particular Khartoum. It contends that police policy in these regions demonstrated the limited governmental ambitions of the Sudanese state and its inability, or unwillingness, to individuate its population. It thus shifts the focus of analysis away from debates which emphas…
Ambivalent ideologies and the limitations of the colonial prison in Sudan, 1898-1956
This article investigates the failure of the colonial state in Sudan to establish an extensive and reformative prison system according to the European ideal. It attributes this failure not just to the limited material resources of the colonial state but to its own internal divisions and ambivalent attitude towards the notion of a reformative penal project. This mirrored the state's ambivalent attitude toward other forms of development, education …
Imperialist and Nationalist Voices in the Struggle for Egyptian independence, 1919–22
This article explores the role of both pro-nationalist and pro-imperialist voices in Egypt and Britain during the Egyptian revolution of 1919. In doing so, it criticises Edward Said's assumption that the ‘Orientalist’ voice of the British imperialists was integral and unchallenged by demonstrating the extent to which left-wing MPs in the House of Commons were able to air the views of the Egyptian nationalists in the British political scene. It in…
The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: From rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989
This article examines the slow eclipse of the rehabilitative ideal within the Sudanese prison system in the period from independence in 1956 till the removal of the third parliamentary regime in 1989. It contends that Jacfar Numayri's ‘Islamization’ of the criminal and penal system in 1983, which has been interpreted by some as an act of religious revival aiming to replace a series of externally imposed and European laws, cannot be understood pur…
Omar al-Bashir and Africa's longest war
The blurb of this text describes it as being simultaneously the ‘first authoritative biography’ of Sudan's much-maligned President Umar al-Bashir as well as a ‘comprehensive military history of Sudan’. This unusual combination leads to something of a hotchpotch structure. Chapters 1 to 3, which act as a potted military and political history of Sudan up until 1989, are evidently not rooted in original research and are marred by a number of tangent…
Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan
Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) was seen as one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese history and politics. This book, based on extensive research and a thorough analysis of al-Turabi's own writings, provides a comprehensive study of the upbringing, ideas and political career of the Islamist intellectual and political leader. Balancing hostile and favourable accounts of al-Turabi, it challenges assumptions of the 'Marxist' or 'Fascist' d…
The Battle of Sha’iba, 1915: Ottomanism, British Imperialism and Shia Religious Activism during the Mesopotamian Campaign
This article analyses relations among the Ottoman Empire, British imperialism and Shia religious proto-nationalism in the period before and after the battle of Sha’iba of 1915, one of the pivotal engagements of the Mesopotamian campaign. It illustrates how the narrow victory of the British at the battle led them to draw a number of over-optimistic conclusions regarding their role in Iraq and their ability to co-opt the Arabs of the province again…
Noah Salomon. For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Noah Salomon’s For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State makes a number of important contributions to the literature on political and religious life in Sudan as well as to the broader literature on the current Islamist wave. One of this book’s core strengths is that it is based on many years of in-depth field research—from 2003 to 2015, particularly between 2003 and 2007—and effectively deploys information gleaned from a ra…
Briefing: The Uprising in Sudan
On 7 March 1985, the railway workers of Sudan’s north-eastern town of Atbara took to the streets to protest against the rise in the price of basic foods decreed by the regime of President Jafa’ar Nimeiri.1 These protests continued for two and a half weeks before the outbreak in Khartoum of the main Intifada, which toppled Nimeiri, his ruling party, and his main state security service. On 19 December 2018, similar protests against rising food pric…
Containing Gender Outlaws, Stigmatizing the Left: Transphobia and Cisgenderism in the Thatcher-era Daily Mail (1979–1990)
This article analyses the formation of cisgenderist and transphobic discourses in the reporting of the Daily Mail during the Thatcher era (1979-1990). It explores the emergence of a discursive strategy that focused on the containment of forms of gender expression that the socially conservative newspaper saw as a threat to the normative understandings of gender that it cherished. At the same time, it discusses how the paper managed the tension bet…
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