Iain Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3702162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9281-6298 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crowd-sourced glacier mapping as a tool for enhancing climate literacy and data generation
Citizen science approaches are increasingly used to support data generation and public engagement across the environmental sciences, yet their wider pedagogical value within physical geography remains underexamined. To explore the value of mapping-based citizen science for both glaciological investigation and geographical learning, we developed GlacierMap , an interactive online tool enabling participants to map glacier change in Peru’s Cordiller…
The French Press in Wartime London, 1940–4: From the Politics of Exile to Inter-Allied Relations
This article examines the history of the French press that was based in London during the Second World War, focusing on its contribution to political debates of and about French exile, its relationship to the British government and its role in shaping inter-Allied relations. The article begins by outlining the development of British policy towards the foreign press based in London before examining three publications: the left-leaning daily France…
Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century
Raymond Aron is widely regarded as the most important figure in the history of twentieth-century French liberalism. Yet his status within the history of liberal thought has been more often proclaimed than explained. Though he is frequently lauded as the inheritor of France's liberal tradition, Aron's formative influences were mostly non-French and often radically anti-liberal thinkers. This book explains how, why, and with what consequences he be…
On Recent Developments in the New Historiography of (Neo)Liberalism
Over the last twenty years or so several new waves of research on the history of liberalism have emerged. The novelty of this should not be exaggerated as broad scholarly interest in liberalism has in fact been increasing at a remarkable rate since the 1980s. Nevertheless, it is clear that the historiography of liberalism has broken much new ground since around the turn of the century. This has been driven partly by the influence of larger develo…
Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century
Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000
The emergence of the history of intellectuals as a new historiographical field in France occurred at a time, in the late 1980s, when the supposed demise of the public intellectual was a subject of frequent media debate. Since then, historians have studied this phenomenon from various perspectives, including intergenerational conflict, social networks, and the specific causes that divided the intellectual community at various moments in its histor…
The problem of the identity of law costs perplexed jurists a lot of sleep”
Le problème de l’identité du droit rend les juristes perplexes insomniaques »
From Pétain to Pinochet: Raymond Aron, Henry Kissinger, and the Problem of Political Realism
This article re-examines the origins and implications of Raymond Aron's brand of political realism. Its starting point is the private correspondence between Aron and Henry Kissinger in the wake of the Chilean coup of 1973 and the demise of the Greek military dictatorship the following year. At issue in this exchange was the idea that an authentic political realism must take values seriously. The article traces the origins of this vision of politi…
The Search Continues
We would like to begin by thanking Julian Bourg, James Chappel, Hugo Drochon and Helena Rosenblatt for their participation and insightful comments in this forum on our book, In Search of the Libera
In Search of the Liberal Moment
The revival of liberal thought in France during the 1970s and 1980s is a remarkable development in contemporary European intellectual history. In this book, British, American, and French scholars offer a fresh take on twentieth-century liberal revival and examine how neo-liberalism developed and influenced contemporary politics and policy.
In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France Since 1950
In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France Since 1950
A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France
Energy and material flows of megacities
Significance Our quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities is a major undertaking, not previously achieved. The sheer magnitude of these flows (e.g., 9% of global electricity, 10% of gasoline; 13% of solid waste) shows the importance of megacities in addressing global environmental challenges. In aggregate the resource flows through megacities are consistent with scaling laws for cities. Statistical relations are e…
Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities
Progress in urban climate science is severely restricted by the lack of useful information that describes aspects of the form and function of cities at a detailed spatial resolution. To overcome this shortcoming we are initiating an international effort to develop the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) to gather and disseminate this information in a consistent manner for urban areas worldwide. The first step in developing WUDAP…
Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt
This impressive new multi-authored volume shows that despite the enormous body of literature that has accumulated around 1968 it remains fertile terrain for historical research that is methodologic
Algeria: France's Undeclared War
Algeria: France's Undeclared War." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 20(5), pp. 930–931
French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day
Positive Political Science and the Uses of Political Theory in Post-War France: Raymond Aron in Context
This article approaches post-war debates about the relationship between normative political theory and empirical political science from a French perspective. It does so by examining Raymond Aron's commentaries on a series of articles commissioned by him for a special issue of the Revue française de science politique on this theme as well as through an analysis of his wartime dialogue with the neo-Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. Following a…
Commandeering Time: The Ideological Status of Time in the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer
The once world‐famed philosophy of Herbert Spencer is the most thoroughly developed version of what is commonly but misleadingly termed “Social Darwinism”. It will be argued that Spencer confers upon time a super‐objectivity within which his own political preferences appear to lie beyond historical time, hence as not subject to politics but as a frame within which only a restricted range of political choices appear to be available. Using the exam…
Bridging the geo‐divide: Reflections on an interdisciplinary (ESRC/Nerc) studentship
Existentialist manifesto or conservative political science? Problems in interpreting Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire
Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire is often held to be a paradigmatic book because of either its rejection of positivism in the social sciences, or its anticipation of existentialism in philosophy. The common denominator in these paradigmatic interpretations of the work is its use of various German philosophical influences that, though relatively obscure in France at the time of its first publication in 1938, became promin…
Coincidence or Derivation: When Julius Stone Accused Hans Kelsen of Plagiarism
Julius Stone, while a law professor at the University of Sydney, denounced Hans Kelsen’s notion of a ‘basic norm (Grundnorm)’ as mere ‘mystery and mystique’. This accusation, and Kelsen’s trenchant response to it, are well known. Less well known, yet an integral element of that exchange and responsible for some of its sharpness, is Stone’s careless allegation that in another aspect of his theory of law, the distinction between a ‘nomostatic’ and …
Memoirs of an Amateur Litigant
Bridging the geo‐divide: Reflections on an interdisciplinary (ESRC/Nerc) studentship
On Recent Developments in the New Historiography of (Neo)Liberalism
Over the last twenty years or so several new waves of research on the history of liberalism have emerged. The novelty of this should not be exaggerated as broad scholarly interest in liberalism has in fact been increasing at a remarkable rate since the 1980s. Nevertheless, it is clear that the historiography of liberalism has broken much new ground since around the turn of the century. This has been driven partly by the influence of larger develo…
Positive Political Science and the Uses of Political Theory in Post-War France: Raymond Aron in Context
This article approaches post-war debates about the relationship between normative political theory and empirical political science from a French perspective. It does so by examining Raymond Aron's commentaries on a series of articles commissioned by him for a special issue of the Revue française de science politique on this theme as well as through an analysis of his wartime dialogue with the neo-Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. Following a…
From Pétain to Pinochet: Raymond Aron, Henry Kissinger, and the Problem of Political Realism
This article re-examines the origins and implications of Raymond Aron's brand of political realism. Its starting point is the private correspondence between Aron and Henry Kissinger in the wake of the Chilean coup of 1973 and the demise of the Greek military dictatorship the following year. At issue in this exchange was the idea that an authentic political realism must take values seriously. The article traces the origins of this vision of politi…
Algeria: France's Undeclared War
Algeria: France's Undeclared War." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 20(5), pp. 930–931
French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day
Existentialist manifesto or conservative political science? Problems in interpreting Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire
Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire is often held to be a paradigmatic book because of either its rejection of positivism in the social sciences, or its anticipation of existentialism in philosophy. The common denominator in these paradigmatic interpretations of the work is its use of various German philosophical influences that, though relatively obscure in France at the time of its first publication in 1938, became promin…
Fission and Federalism: The Disaggregation of Canadian Party Activists
This article focuses on the Progressive Conservative (PC) party of Canada and contrasts the orientations of four different sets of PC party workers: those who are active in the provincial arena in Nova Scotia and in Alberta, as well as those who are active in the national arena from the same two provinces. The data reveal that federalism has had a disaggregative effect on Canadian political party ideology. Not only is the cleavage between activis…
Living with Dictator Rosas: Argentina through Scottish Eyes
Whilst much illuminating research has been conducted into early British diplomatic and commercial activity in the River Plate, few scholars have yet focused upon the lives of individual settlers in any detail. The present article moves some way towards redressing this imbalance through the study of the Gibsons, a prominent Argentine-Scottish family with pioneering interests in commerce and sheep breeding. The analysis gives special weight to lett…
Order and Dispute. An Introduction to Legal Anthropology
Journal Article Order and Dispute. An Introduction to Legal Anthropology. Legal Pluralism. An Introduction to Colonial and Neo-Colonial Laws Get access ORDERAND DISPUTE. AN INTRODUCTIONTO LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY. By Roberts Simon. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979. Pp. 216.LEGAL PLURALISM. AN INTRODUCTIONTO COLONIALAND NEO-COLONIAL LAWS. By Hooker M.B.. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Pp. xxii, 601. Iain Stewart Iain Stewart * Lecturer in Law, Univers…
Founding Myths in Legal Rationality
Closure and The Legal Norm: An Essay in Critique of Law
The Critical Legal Science of Hans Kelsen
The themes of oppression/liberty and exile/return in a chapter of Augusto Roa Bastos's Hijo de hombre
Fission and Federalism: The Disaggregation of Canadian Party Activists
This article focuses on the Progressive Conservative (PC) party of Canada and contrasts the orientations of four different sets of PC party workers: those who are active in the provincial arena in Nova Scotia and in Alberta, as well as those who are active in the national arena from the same two provinces. The data reveal that federalism has had a disaggregative effect on Canadian political party ideology. Not only is the cleavage between activis…
Living with Dictator Rosas: Argentina through Scottish Eyes
Whilst much illuminating research has been conducted into early British diplomatic and commercial activity in the River Plate, few scholars have yet focused upon the lives of individual settlers in any detail. The present article moves some way towards redressing this imbalance through the study of the Gibsons, a prominent Argentine-Scottish family with pioneering interests in commerce and sheep breeding. The analysis gives special weight to lett…
Memoirs of an Amateur Litigant
Coincidence or Derivation: When Julius Stone Accused Hans Kelsen of Plagiarism
Julius Stone, while a law professor at the University of Sydney, denounced Hans Kelsen’s notion of a ‘basic norm (Grundnorm)’ as mere ‘mystery and mystique’. This accusation, and Kelsen’s trenchant response to it, are well known. Less well known, yet an integral element of that exchange and responsible for some of its sharpness, is Stone’s careless allegation that in another aspect of his theory of law, the distinction between a ‘nomostatic’ and …
Existentialist manifesto or conservative political science? Problems in interpreting Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire
Raymond Aron's Introduction à la philosophie de l'histoire is often held to be a paradigmatic book because of either its rejection of positivism in the social sciences, or its anticipation of existentialism in philosophy. The common denominator in these paradigmatic interpretations of the work is its use of various German philosophical influences that, though relatively obscure in France at the time of its first publication in 1938, became promin…
Bridging the geo‐divide: Reflections on an interdisciplinary (ESRC/Nerc) studentship
Commandeering Time: The Ideological Status of Time in the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer
The once world‐famed philosophy of Herbert Spencer is the most thoroughly developed version of what is commonly but misleadingly termed “Social Darwinism”. It will be argued that Spencer confers upon time a super‐objectivity within which his own political preferences appear to lie beyond historical time, hence as not subject to politics but as a frame within which only a restricted range of political choices appear to be available. Using the exam…
Positive Political Science and the Uses of Political Theory in Post-War France: Raymond Aron in Context
This article approaches post-war debates about the relationship between normative political theory and empirical political science from a French perspective. It does so by examining Raymond Aron's commentaries on a series of articles commissioned by him for a special issue of the Revue française de science politique on this theme as well as through an analysis of his wartime dialogue with the neo-Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. Following a…
Algeria: France's Undeclared War
Algeria: France's Undeclared War." European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 20(5), pp. 930–931
French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day
Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt
This impressive new multi-authored volume shows that despite the enormous body of literature that has accumulated around 1968 it remains fertile terrain for historical research that is methodologic
Energy and material flows of megacities
Significance Our quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities is a major undertaking, not previously achieved. The sheer magnitude of these flows (e.g., 9% of global electricity, 10% of gasoline; 13% of solid waste) shows the importance of megacities in addressing global environmental challenges. In aggregate the resource flows through megacities are consistent with scaling laws for cities. Statistical relations are e…
Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities
Progress in urban climate science is severely restricted by the lack of useful information that describes aspects of the form and function of cities at a detailed spatial resolution. To overcome this shortcoming we are initiating an international effort to develop the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) to gather and disseminate this information in a consistent manner for urban areas worldwide. The first step in developing WUDAP…
In Search of the Liberal Moment
The revival of liberal thought in France during the 1970s and 1980s is a remarkable development in contemporary European intellectual history. In this book, British, American, and French scholars offer a fresh take on twentieth-century liberal revival and examine how neo-liberalism developed and influenced contemporary politics and policy.
In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France Since 1950
In Search of the Liberal Moment: Democracy, Anti-Totalitarianism, and Intellectual Politics in France Since 1950
A Divided Republic: Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France
The Search Continues
We would like to begin by thanking Julian Bourg, James Chappel, Hugo Drochon and Helena Rosenblatt for their participation and insightful comments in this forum on our book, In Search of the Libera
Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898–2000
The emergence of the history of intellectuals as a new historiographical field in France occurred at a time, in the late 1980s, when the supposed demise of the public intellectual was a subject of frequent media debate. Since then, historians have studied this phenomenon from various perspectives, including intergenerational conflict, social networks, and the specific causes that divided the intellectual community at various moments in its histor…
The problem of the identity of law costs perplexed jurists a lot of sleep”
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