Adrian Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0876-5687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unalignment: Reflecting on unscripted reflection in higher education
This article reflects on the meaning of 'reflection', and on enablers of 'reflection', in higher education. Irrespective of what university managers might want us to think, the key point is that student reflection cannot simply be seen as an intended learning outcome (ILO) of teaching. The author contends that reflection is better seen as the occasioning of a questing self-consciousness in students. The 'self' in the questing is key. Reflection i…
The Evolution of a Social Problem: The Case of the Switchblade Knife
We illustrate the evolution of a social problem by describing the history of the switchblade knife and claims used by moral entrepreneurs to change the switchblade’s legal status in American. To investigate this issue, we conduct a historical-event analysis using legal documents, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, books, and testimonials. We argue that the switchblade’s deviant status evolved not from the objective harm it caused, but rather,…
New theories of mind and their implications for researching histories
By considering new scholarship on the social distribution of cognition, artificial intelligence (AI) and philosophies of mind, this article suggests another epistemology for research in history. The contrast of new models of AI with old existentialist phenomenologies of being-in-time now suggests how meaningful action can operate without representations. These issues affect research in history. ‘Picturing’ theories of mind grounding Historicist a…
A history of the history essay: Heritages, habits and hindrances
Why are history essays so po-faced? Standard agendas for history essays summon advanced-level students to account for some past something in particularly sober, grounded and disinterested ways. This history essay about the odd history of the history essay explores how this model arose, and its consequences. My focus is on how the history essay’s unusual insistence on disinterested forays into things of interest erects forms of academic power that…
The Predicament of Writing Political History: The Challenge of the Tacit
Political histories composed by contemporaries (or near contemporaries) are affected by the predicament of confronting the tacit in a past. Three case studies of famous writers of histories of politics in their own times are used to suggest an additional epistemology for political history which relies rather less on representations than has been common since the “Linguistic Turn” privileged the propositional thrall of discourses. My extra element…
Civic engagement and the arts and humanities: An Australian perspective
An Australian scholar in the Arts and Humanities responds to recent US models emphasizing civic-engaged learning as a way to renew the humanities in undergraduate education. Policy contexts and curriculum initiatives of kindred trends in recent Australian undergraduate education in the humanities are contrasted in this essay. The Australian experience reiterates the worth of a turn towards engaging undergraduates in active learning contexts which…
A Petrine Day of Display: 21 December 1709
This article analyses the royal pranks and new euro-iconographies asso-ciated with Peter the Great's extraordinary ceremonial procession through Moscow on 21 December 1709. Gates of Triumph were designed and erected at his express order soon after his success at Poltava on 27 June 1709, and then Peter troubled to commission series of engravings in March 1710. The arcane metaphors depicted in the gates and the royal pranks on the day are contraste…
History’s ‘So it seems’: Heidegger-ian Phenomenologies and History
This article entitled “History’s ‘So it seems’” explores the potential of phenomenology for the framing of histories which privilege partcipant perspectives. The theory agenda of the article adapts insights drawn from Heidegger’s ontological hermeneutic of Da-sein ‐ the human condition of being-there and being-aware (or not aware). The theory agenda also adapts Heidegger’s readings of Heraclitus. The practical agenda of the article illustrates th…
Teaching History at University through Communities of Inquiry
Most academic historians in Australia are also teachers. Yet history academics have seldom been as assiduous in researching the traditions of their teaching as they have been in researching their subjects-matter. Prompted by a recent Australian survey of history students and academics, this article draws on new developments in social and educational psychology to suggest ways of overcoming the individualism and passivity of many established tradi…
Alain Badiou and authentic revolutions: Methods of intellectual enquiry
This study explores new philosophical foundations for democracy in revolutions. Alain Badiou's thought is in focus, but this essay is not just an exegesis. The thought of Alain Badiou is appraised (and adapted) in this essay in the light of the main currents of European thought on the hopes and history of European revolutions. This essay dismisses Badiou's ultra-gauche Maoism, focusing instead on Badiou's ways to reconcile revolutionary change, s…
Philosophical and Socio‐Cognitive Foundations for Teaching in Higher Education through Collaborative Approaches to Student Learning
This paper considers the implications for higher education of recent work on narrative theory, distributed cognition and artificial intelligence. These perspectives are contrasted with the educational implications of Heidegger's ontological phenomenology [being‐there and being‐aware (Da‐sein)] and with the classic and classical foundations of education which Heidegger and Gadamer once criticised. The aim is to prompt discussion of what teaching m…
Meeting the sheltered and extra care housing needs of black and minority ethnic older people: A Race Equality Foundation briefing paper
Reporting in Prose: Reconsidering Ways of Writing History
This article reconsiders history's ways of reporting in prose. Ways of analysing and writing history so as to evoke a past are contrasted with ways of analysing and writing history so as to frame theses about a past. Academic norms now favour theses. It was not always so. This article contrasts very early European theories about writing prose, including key writings by Johannine Christians and by Heraclitus. Influenced by Martin Heidegger's exist…
A Russian Bourgeois's Arctic Enlightenment
Studies of Europe's Enlightenment have been enriched by attending to its real and imagined impacts on indigenous peoples and of indigenous peoples on Europeans. Applying these methods to new-settled eighteenth-century societies offers another standpoint on the Enlightenment. This study is a sample: a civic history of a relatively new – in European terms – place suggests the possibilities. In 1792, a bourgeois, Vasilii Krestinin, from Russia's Whi…
A Note on AtatÜrk’s Words About Gallipoli
This article looks again at the words which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk addressed in 1934 to the Europeans against whom he had fought at Gallipoli, words now set in stone beside Anzac Cove. It offers a historical explanation of the extraordinarily generous terms in which he spoke
A Tagging Tale: The Work of the Monitoring Officer, Electronically Monitoring Offenders in England and Wales
This article will describe the work of Field Monitoring Officers (FMOs) employed by Premier Monitoring Services limited (PMS) one of the contract companies which provide the service of electronically monitoring offenders in England and Wales. It will explore the officer's work and the difficulties which they face on a day to day basis. The content will in general be taken from my own experiences over a three and a half year period whilst employed…
Introduction: Which Social History of Russia
The Village as Votchina. Attitudes To Property in the Post-Emancipation Russian Village
Word and Deed: Why a Post-Poststructural History Is Needed, and How It Might Look
This essay reviews the contribution of Foucauldian poststructural theory to history. It retrieves its origins as a supplement to, not a negation of, the structuralisms of the Annales . Histories of discourses influenced by modish (Barthesian, gender, post-colonial, Cultural Studies ...) paradigms often overlook this heritage. They take, ‘il n'y a pas hors de texte’ at face value. This essay suggests ways to re-assimilate historical studies of dis…
After Empire: The Contemporary Modern‐Mediaeval Revolutions of Europe's East
Short notices
Piero Camporesi, The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society (1993), viii + 253 (Polity Press, £39.50). David Marcombe, English Small Town Life: Retford 1520–1642 (1993), xii + 310 (Department of Adult Education, Nottingham University, £8.95). Jerome Friedman, Miracles and the Pulp Press during the English Revolution (1993), 320, (University College, London, paperback £13.95). Barry M. Shapiro, Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789–1790 (1993), …
Books
Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd (eds), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 472 pp., £12.95 p.b. Commission for Racial Equality, ’Sorry it's Gone’: Testing for Racial Discrimination in the Private Rented Housing Sector London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990, 41 pp., £3.50 p.b. Mohammed Habeebullah and David Slater, Equal Access: Asian Access to Council Housing in Rochdale London: Community …
Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions
Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions Get access ADRIAN JONES ADRIAN JONES La Trobe UniversityMelbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 862–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.862 Published: 01 October 1992
Illusions of sovereignty: Business and the organization of Committees of Vichy France∗
(1986). Illusions of sovereignty: Business and the organization of Committees of Vichy France. Social History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-31
The French Railway Strikes of January-May 1920: New Syndicalist Ideas and Emergent Communism
Word and Deed: Why a Post-Poststructural History Is Needed, and How It Might Look
This essay reviews the contribution of Foucauldian poststructural theory to history. It retrieves its origins as a supplement to, not a negation of, the structuralisms of the Annales . Histories of discourses influenced by modish (Barthesian, gender, post-colonial, Cultural Studies ...) paradigms often overlook this heritage. They take, ‘il n'y a pas hors de texte’ at face value. This essay suggests ways to re-assimilate historical studies of dis…
Teaching History at University through Communities of Inquiry
Most academic historians in Australia are also teachers. Yet history academics have seldom been as assiduous in researching the traditions of their teaching as they have been in researching their subjects-matter. Prompted by a recent Australian survey of history students and academics, this article draws on new developments in social and educational psychology to suggest ways of overcoming the individualism and passivity of many established tradi…
Philosophical and Socio‐Cognitive Foundations for Teaching in Higher Education through Collaborative Approaches to Student Learning
This paper considers the implications for higher education of recent work on narrative theory, distributed cognition and artificial intelligence. These perspectives are contrasted with the educational implications of Heidegger's ontological phenomenology [being‐there and being‐aware (Da‐sein)] and with the classic and classical foundations of education which Heidegger and Gadamer once criticised. The aim is to prompt discussion of what teaching m…
Illusions of sovereignty: Business and the organization of Committees of Vichy France∗
(1986). Illusions of sovereignty: Business and the organization of Committees of Vichy France. Social History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-31
A history of the history essay: Heritages, habits and hindrances
Why are history essays so po-faced? Standard agendas for history essays summon advanced-level students to account for some past something in particularly sober, grounded and disinterested ways. This history essay about the odd history of the history essay explores how this model arose, and its consequences. My focus is on how the history essay’s unusual insistence on disinterested forays into things of interest erects forms of academic power that…
Civic engagement and the arts and humanities: An Australian perspective
An Australian scholar in the Arts and Humanities responds to recent US models emphasizing civic-engaged learning as a way to renew the humanities in undergraduate education. Policy contexts and curriculum initiatives of kindred trends in recent Australian undergraduate education in the humanities are contrasted in this essay. The Australian experience reiterates the worth of a turn towards engaging undergraduates in active learning contexts which…
Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions
Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions Get access ADRIAN JONES ADRIAN JONES La Trobe UniversityMelbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 862–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.862 Published: 01 October 1992
New theories of mind and their implications for researching histories
By considering new scholarship on the social distribution of cognition, artificial intelligence (AI) and philosophies of mind, this article suggests another epistemology for research in history. The contrast of new models of AI with old existentialist phenomenologies of being-in-time now suggests how meaningful action can operate without representations. These issues affect research in history. ‘Picturing’ theories of mind grounding Historicist a…
Reporting in Prose: Reconsidering Ways of Writing History
This article reconsiders history's ways of reporting in prose. Ways of analysing and writing history so as to evoke a past are contrasted with ways of analysing and writing history so as to frame theses about a past. Academic norms now favour theses. It was not always so. This article contrasts very early European theories about writing prose, including key writings by Johannine Christians and by Heraclitus. Influenced by Martin Heidegger's exist…
A Russian Bourgeois's Arctic Enlightenment
Studies of Europe's Enlightenment have been enriched by attending to its real and imagined impacts on indigenous peoples and of indigenous peoples on Europeans. Applying these methods to new-settled eighteenth-century societies offers another standpoint on the Enlightenment. This study is a sample: a civic history of a relatively new – in European terms – place suggests the possibilities. In 1792, a bourgeois, Vasilii Krestinin, from Russia's Whi…
A Note on AtatÜrk’s Words About Gallipoli
This article looks again at the words which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk addressed in 1934 to the Europeans against whom he had fought at Gallipoli, words now set in stone beside Anzac Cove. It offers a historical explanation of the extraordinarily generous terms in which he spoke
The French Railway Strikes of January-May 1920: New Syndicalist Ideas and Emergent Communism
Illusions of sovereignty: Business and the organization of Committees of Vichy France∗
(1986). Illusions of sovereignty: Business and the organization of Committees of Vichy France. Social History: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-31
Books
Abdul R. JanMohamed and David Lloyd (eds), The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, 472 pp., £12.95 p.b. Commission for Racial Equality, ’Sorry it's Gone’: Testing for Racial Discrimination in the Private Rented Housing Sector London: Commission for Racial Equality, 1990, 41 pp., £3.50 p.b. Mohammed Habeebullah and David Slater, Equal Access: Asian Access to Council Housing in Rochdale London: Community …
Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions
Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions Get access ADRIAN JONES ADRIAN JONES La Trobe UniversityMelbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 862–900, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.862 Published: 01 October 1992
Short notices
Piero Camporesi, The Magic Harvest: Food, Folklore and Society (1993), viii + 253 (Polity Press, £39.50). David Marcombe, English Small Town Life: Retford 1520–1642 (1993), xii + 310 (Department of Adult Education, Nottingham University, £8.95). Jerome Friedman, Miracles and the Pulp Press during the English Revolution (1993), 320, (University College, London, paperback £13.95). Barry M. Shapiro, Revolutionary Justice in Paris, 1789–1790 (1993), …
After Empire: The Contemporary Modern‐Mediaeval Revolutions of Europe's East
Introduction: Which Social History of Russia
The Village as Votchina. Attitudes To Property in the Post-Emancipation Russian Village
Word and Deed: Why a Post-Poststructural History Is Needed, and How It Might Look
This essay reviews the contribution of Foucauldian poststructural theory to history. It retrieves its origins as a supplement to, not a negation of, the structuralisms of the Annales . Histories of discourses influenced by modish (Barthesian, gender, post-colonial, Cultural Studies ...) paradigms often overlook this heritage. They take, ‘il n'y a pas hors de texte’ at face value. This essay suggests ways to re-assimilate historical studies of dis…
A Tagging Tale: The Work of the Monitoring Officer, Electronically Monitoring Offenders in England and Wales
This article will describe the work of Field Monitoring Officers (FMOs) employed by Premier Monitoring Services limited (PMS) one of the contract companies which provide the service of electronically monitoring offenders in England and Wales. It will explore the officer's work and the difficulties which they face on a day to day basis. The content will in general be taken from my own experiences over a three and a half year period whilst employed…
A Note on AtatÜrk’s Words About Gallipoli
This article looks again at the words which Mustafa Kemal Atatürk addressed in 1934 to the Europeans against whom he had fought at Gallipoli, words now set in stone beside Anzac Cove. It offers a historical explanation of the extraordinarily generous terms in which he spoke
A Russian Bourgeois's Arctic Enlightenment
Studies of Europe's Enlightenment have been enriched by attending to its real and imagined impacts on indigenous peoples and of indigenous peoples on Europeans. Applying these methods to new-settled eighteenth-century societies offers another standpoint on the Enlightenment. This study is a sample: a civic history of a relatively new – in European terms – place suggests the possibilities. In 1792, a bourgeois, Vasilii Krestinin, from Russia's Whi…
Reporting in Prose: Reconsidering Ways of Writing History
This article reconsiders history's ways of reporting in prose. Ways of analysing and writing history so as to evoke a past are contrasted with ways of analysing and writing history so as to frame theses about a past. Academic norms now favour theses. It was not always so. This article contrasts very early European theories about writing prose, including key writings by Johannine Christians and by Heraclitus. Influenced by Martin Heidegger's exist…
Meeting the sheltered and extra care housing needs of black and minority ethnic older people: A Race Equality Foundation briefing paper
Philosophical and Socio‐Cognitive Foundations for Teaching in Higher Education through Collaborative Approaches to Student Learning
This paper considers the implications for higher education of recent work on narrative theory, distributed cognition and artificial intelligence. These perspectives are contrasted with the educational implications of Heidegger's ontological phenomenology [being‐there and being‐aware (Da‐sein)] and with the classic and classical foundations of education which Heidegger and Gadamer once criticised. The aim is to prompt discussion of what teaching m…
History’s ‘So it seems’: Heidegger-ian Phenomenologies and History
This article entitled “History’s ‘So it seems’” explores the potential of phenomenology for the framing of histories which privilege partcipant perspectives. The theory agenda of the article adapts insights drawn from Heidegger’s ontological hermeneutic of Da-sein ‐ the human condition of being-there and being-aware (or not aware). The theory agenda also adapts Heidegger’s readings of Heraclitus. The practical agenda of the article illustrates th…
Teaching History at University through Communities of Inquiry
Most academic historians in Australia are also teachers. Yet history academics have seldom been as assiduous in researching the traditions of their teaching as they have been in researching their subjects-matter. Prompted by a recent Australian survey of history students and academics, this article draws on new developments in social and educational psychology to suggest ways of overcoming the individualism and passivity of many established tradi…
Alain Badiou and authentic revolutions: Methods of intellectual enquiry
This study explores new philosophical foundations for democracy in revolutions. Alain Badiou's thought is in focus, but this essay is not just an exegesis. The thought of Alain Badiou is appraised (and adapted) in this essay in the light of the main currents of European thought on the hopes and history of European revolutions. This essay dismisses Badiou's ultra-gauche Maoism, focusing instead on Badiou's ways to reconcile revolutionary change, s…
A Petrine Day of Display: 21 December 1709
This article analyses the royal pranks and new euro-iconographies asso-ciated with Peter the Great's extraordinary ceremonial procession through Moscow on 21 December 1709. Gates of Triumph were designed and erected at his express order soon after his success at Poltava on 27 June 1709, and then Peter troubled to commission series of engravings in March 1710. The arcane metaphors depicted in the gates and the royal pranks on the day are contraste…
Civic engagement and the arts and humanities: An Australian perspective
An Australian scholar in the Arts and Humanities responds to recent US models emphasizing civic-engaged learning as a way to renew the humanities in undergraduate education. Policy contexts and curriculum initiatives of kindred trends in recent Australian undergraduate education in the humanities are contrasted in this essay. The Australian experience reiterates the worth of a turn towards engaging undergraduates in active learning contexts which…
The Predicament of Writing Political History: The Challenge of the Tacit
Political histories composed by contemporaries (or near contemporaries) are affected by the predicament of confronting the tacit in a past. Three case studies of famous writers of histories of politics in their own times are used to suggest an additional epistemology for political history which relies rather less on representations than has been common since the “Linguistic Turn” privileged the propositional thrall of discourses. My extra element…
A history of the history essay: Heritages, habits and hindrances
Why are history essays so po-faced? Standard agendas for history essays summon advanced-level students to account for some past something in particularly sober, grounded and disinterested ways. This history essay about the odd history of the history essay explores how this model arose, and its consequences. My focus is on how the history essay’s unusual insistence on disinterested forays into things of interest erects forms of academic power that…
New theories of mind and their implications for researching histories
By considering new scholarship on the social distribution of cognition, artificial intelligence (AI) and philosophies of mind, this article suggests another epistemology for research in history. The contrast of new models of AI with old existentialist phenomenologies of being-in-time now suggests how meaningful action can operate without representations. These issues affect research in history. ‘Picturing’ theories of mind grounding Historicist a…
The Evolution of a Social Problem: The Case of the Switchblade Knife
We illustrate the evolution of a social problem by describing the history of the switchblade knife and claims used by moral entrepreneurs to change the switchblade’s legal status in American. To investigate this issue, we conduct a historical-event analysis using legal documents, newspapers, magazines, advertisements, books, and testimonials. We argue that the switchblade’s deviant status evolved not from the objective harm it caused, but rather,…
Unalignment: Reflecting on unscripted reflection in higher education
This article reflects on the meaning of 'reflection', and on enablers of 'reflection', in higher education. Irrespective of what university managers might want us to think, the key point is that student reflection cannot simply be seen as an intended learning outcome (ILO) of teaching. The author contends that reflection is better seen as the occasioning of a questing self-consciousness in students. The 'self' in the questing is key. Reflection i…
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