Keith Forrester
Biographic Data
| ID | 362971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Forrester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Forrester |
| SIGNATURE | FORRESTER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4534-390X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement
As political theorists explore work beyond traditional workplaces, how should we understand the vast class of insecure, informal, and unsalaried workers whose existence defies traditional categories of employment? In asking this question, I revisit the political theory of the Marxist feminist and cofounder of the International Wages for Housework movement, Selma James, to explore her “internationalism of the unwaged” and her writings on wagelessn…
Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
Does neo-Rawlsian political philosophy offer an adequate account of the social conditions of capitalism? In this paper, I present two arguments for thinking that it does not. First, I develop a historicist critique of liberal egalitarianism, arguing that it provides a vision of social reality that is intimately connected to the historical and ideological constellation that I call postwar liberalism, and as such cannot account for social reality s…
Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework
This article develops an account of demand-making and provides a novel framework for evaluating the demands and strategies of social movements. It explores three features of demands, arguing that they disclose social conditions, create constituencies, and set the horizons of the world that social movements seek to build. It does so by considering two feminist demands: the demand for wages for housework and for the socialization of housework. By r…
By Leaps or by Federation
One of the underappreciated dimensions of the Corbyn era was that it forged a novel unity on the British left. This article explores how that unity was achieved, what it meant, and why it was so temporary. After tracing the variety of left ideas and factions that shaped the organizational and institutional dimensions of the Corbyn project, it argues that these were held together by three mechanisms: Corbynism's annual campaigns, digital structure…
Citizenship, War, and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy, 1960–1975
This article examines a series of debates about civil disobedience, conscription, and the justice of war that took place among American liberal philosophers, lawyers, and activists during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. It argues that these debates fundamentally reshaped American political philosophy, by shifting the focus from the welfare state to the realm of international politics. In order to chart this transition from the dome…
The Making of Modern Liberalism
Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and political realism
In light of recent interest among political theorists in the idea of political realism, Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear has come to be associated with anti-Rawlsian thought. This paper seeks to show that, on the contrary, Shklar’s specific formulation of political realism, unlike more recent variations, was not motivated by a critique of Rawls. This paper will address three concerns: first, it will show what exactly Shklar’s initial realism wa…
Hope and Memory in the Thought of Judith Shklar
Current interpretations of the political theory of Judith Shklar focus to a disabling extent on her short, late article “The Liberalism of Fear” (1989); commentators take this late essay as representative of her work as a whole and thus characterize her as an anti-totalitarian, Cold War liberal. Other interpretations situate her political thought alongside followers of John Rawls and liberal political philosophy. Challenging the centrality of fea…
The Quiet Revolution
Leaving the academic towers
In recent years, there has been a revitalized interest in conceptions and practices of citizenship. This paper outlines and comments upon the first stage of the Council of Europe's Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) project that ran between 1997 and 2000. Involving the creation of ‘Sites of Citizenship’ in different countries, the EDC project sought ‘to actively engage in the process of finding out the new shape of democratic culture and …
Work-related learning and the struggle for employee commitment
Workplace or work-related learning represents an important and expanding area of interest for adult educators. Encouraged by a variety of recent government policy developments within a framework of ‘lifelong learning’, adult educators and trade unions once again are seen as having an important contribution to make towards work-related learning initiatives. However, this article raises a number of concerns and worries about the underlying assumpti…
Researching Work and Learning
Adult learning
(1998). Adult learning: ‘A Key for the Twenty‐first Century’: Reflections on the UNESCO fifth international conference 1997. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 423-134
Lifelong education and the workplace
This paper contains an analysis of policy formulations which underlie the work of the ‘Leeds Adult Learners at Work’ project (1991‐93). The overall aim of the project was to assess the contribution that broadly based Employee Development training schemes organized through the workplace can make towards achieving the internationally recognized goal of ‘lifelong learning’. The paper follows Ball (1990) in seeing policy as a contested arena in which…
Unemployment and Europe
(1991). Unemployment and Europe: an Adult Education Perspective. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 154-167
Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and political realism
In light of recent interest among political theorists in the idea of political realism, Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear has come to be associated with anti-Rawlsian thought. This paper seeks to show that, on the contrary, Shklar’s specific formulation of political realism, unlike more recent variations, was not motivated by a critique of Rawls. This paper will address three concerns: first, it will show what exactly Shklar’s initial realism wa…
Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework
This article develops an account of demand-making and provides a novel framework for evaluating the demands and strategies of social movements. It explores three features of demands, arguing that they disclose social conditions, create constituencies, and set the horizons of the world that social movements seek to build. It does so by considering two feminist demands: the demand for wages for housework and for the socialization of housework. By r…
Hope and Memory in the Thought of Judith Shklar
Current interpretations of the political theory of Judith Shklar focus to a disabling extent on her short, late article “The Liberalism of Fear” (1989); commentators take this late essay as representative of her work as a whole and thus characterize her as an anti-totalitarian, Cold War liberal. Other interpretations situate her political thought alongside followers of John Rawls and liberal political philosophy. Challenging the centrality of fea…
The Quiet Revolution
Citizenship, War, and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy, 1960–1975
This article examines a series of debates about civil disobedience, conscription, and the justice of war that took place among American liberal philosophers, lawyers, and activists during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. It argues that these debates fundamentally reshaped American political philosophy, by shifting the focus from the welfare state to the realm of international politics. In order to chart this transition from the dome…
Lifelong education and the workplace
This paper contains an analysis of policy formulations which underlie the work of the ‘Leeds Adult Learners at Work’ project (1991‐93). The overall aim of the project was to assess the contribution that broadly based Employee Development training schemes organized through the workplace can make towards achieving the internationally recognized goal of ‘lifelong learning’. The paper follows Ball (1990) in seeing policy as a contested arena in which…
Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
Does neo-Rawlsian political philosophy offer an adequate account of the social conditions of capitalism? In this paper, I present two arguments for thinking that it does not. First, I develop a historicist critique of liberal egalitarianism, arguing that it provides a vision of social reality that is intimately connected to the historical and ideological constellation that I call postwar liberalism, and as such cannot account for social reality s…
Work-related learning and the struggle for employee commitment
Workplace or work-related learning represents an important and expanding area of interest for adult educators. Encouraged by a variety of recent government policy developments within a framework of ‘lifelong learning’, adult educators and trade unions once again are seen as having an important contribution to make towards work-related learning initiatives. However, this article raises a number of concerns and worries about the underlying assumpti…
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement
As political theorists explore work beyond traditional workplaces, how should we understand the vast class of insecure, informal, and unsalaried workers whose existence defies traditional categories of employment? In asking this question, I revisit the political theory of the Marxist feminist and cofounder of the International Wages for Housework movement, Selma James, to explore her “internationalism of the unwaged” and her writings on wagelessn…
By Leaps or by Federation
One of the underappreciated dimensions of the Corbyn era was that it forged a novel unity on the British left. This article explores how that unity was achieved, what it meant, and why it was so temporary. After tracing the variety of left ideas and factions that shaped the organizational and institutional dimensions of the Corbyn project, it argues that these were held together by three mechanisms: Corbynism's annual campaigns, digital structure…
The Making of Modern Liberalism
Leaving the academic towers
In recent years, there has been a revitalized interest in conceptions and practices of citizenship. This paper outlines and comments upon the first stage of the Council of Europe's Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) project that ran between 1997 and 2000. Involving the creation of ‘Sites of Citizenship’ in different countries, the EDC project sought ‘to actively engage in the process of finding out the new shape of democratic culture and …
Adult learning
(1998). Adult learning: ‘A Key for the Twenty‐first Century’: Reflections on the UNESCO fifth international conference 1997. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 423-134
Unemployment and Europe
(1991). Unemployment and Europe: an Adult Education Perspective. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 154-167
Unemployment and Europe
(1991). Unemployment and Europe: an Adult Education Perspective. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 154-167
Lifelong education and the workplace
This paper contains an analysis of policy formulations which underlie the work of the ‘Leeds Adult Learners at Work’ project (1991‐93). The overall aim of the project was to assess the contribution that broadly based Employee Development training schemes organized through the workplace can make towards achieving the internationally recognized goal of ‘lifelong learning’. The paper follows Ball (1990) in seeing policy as a contested arena in which…
Adult learning
(1998). Adult learning: ‘A Key for the Twenty‐first Century’: Reflections on the UNESCO fifth international conference 1997. International Journal of Lifelong Education: Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 423-134
Researching Work and Learning
Work-related learning and the struggle for employee commitment
Workplace or work-related learning represents an important and expanding area of interest for adult educators. Encouraged by a variety of recent government policy developments within a framework of ‘lifelong learning’, adult educators and trade unions once again are seen as having an important contribution to make towards work-related learning initiatives. However, this article raises a number of concerns and worries about the underlying assumpti…
Leaving the academic towers
In recent years, there has been a revitalized interest in conceptions and practices of citizenship. This paper outlines and comments upon the first stage of the Council of Europe's Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC) project that ran between 1997 and 2000. Involving the creation of ‘Sites of Citizenship’ in different countries, the EDC project sought ‘to actively engage in the process of finding out the new shape of democratic culture and …
The Quiet Revolution
Hope and Memory in the Thought of Judith Shklar
Current interpretations of the political theory of Judith Shklar focus to a disabling extent on her short, late article “The Liberalism of Fear” (1989); commentators take this late essay as representative of her work as a whole and thus characterize her as an anti-totalitarian, Cold War liberal. Other interpretations situate her political thought alongside followers of John Rawls and liberal political philosophy. Challenging the centrality of fea…
Judith Shklar, Bernard Williams and political realism
In light of recent interest among political theorists in the idea of political realism, Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear has come to be associated with anti-Rawlsian thought. This paper seeks to show that, on the contrary, Shklar’s specific formulation of political realism, unlike more recent variations, was not motivated by a critique of Rawls. This paper will address three concerns: first, it will show what exactly Shklar’s initial realism wa…
The Making of Modern Liberalism
Citizenship, War, and the Origins of International Ethics in American Political Philosophy, 1960–1975
This article examines a series of debates about civil disobedience, conscription, and the justice of war that took place among American liberal philosophers, lawyers, and activists during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. It argues that these debates fundamentally reshaped American political philosophy, by shifting the focus from the welfare state to the realm of international politics. In order to chart this transition from the dome…
By Leaps or by Federation
One of the underappreciated dimensions of the Corbyn era was that it forged a novel unity on the British left. This article explores how that unity was achieved, what it meant, and why it was so temporary. After tracing the variety of left ideas and factions that shaped the organizational and institutional dimensions of the Corbyn project, it argues that these were held together by three mechanisms: Corbynism's annual campaigns, digital structure…
Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
Does neo-Rawlsian political philosophy offer an adequate account of the social conditions of capitalism? In this paper, I present two arguments for thinking that it does not. First, I develop a historicist critique of liberal egalitarianism, arguing that it provides a vision of social reality that is intimately connected to the historical and ideological constellation that I call postwar liberalism, and as such cannot account for social reality s…
Feminist Demands and the Problem of Housework
This article develops an account of demand-making and provides a novel framework for evaluating the demands and strategies of social movements. It explores three features of demands, arguing that they disclose social conditions, create constituencies, and set the horizons of the world that social movements seek to build. It does so by considering two feminist demands: the demand for wages for housework and for the socialization of housework. By r…
Capitalism and the Organization of Displacement
As political theorists explore work beyond traditional workplaces, how should we understand the vast class of insecure, informal, and unsalaried workers whose existence defies traditional categories of employment? In asking this question, I revisit the political theory of the Marxist feminist and cofounder of the International Wages for Housework movement, Selma James, to explore her “internationalism of the unwaged” and her writings on wagelessn…
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