Jason Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5032-4965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Authority on the Border of Work and Play
The distinction between work and play is a defining feature of the modern world. But the border between them has been a site of major political contestation, giving rise to new forms of authority. I turn to the work of Michael Oakeshott to examine the distinction between work and play and how it relates to the idea of authority. I argue that reading Oakeshott on work, play, conduct, and authority can give us important insights into key questions …
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report
William Calder Marshall’s Biblical Historicism
William Calder Marshall’s Imperial Homonormativity
Sculpture and Faith at St Paul’s Cathedral, c . 1796–1913
In our introduction, we establish the original conference context of the 15 following position papers, emphasizing that the papers represent a conversation between participants, each of whom had been allocated a single monument from St Paul’s Cathedral in the period between c. 1796 and 1913, to think about the memorial’s visual and material richness and complexity, as well as its immediate and wider cathedral location, and broader discursive cont…
The Everyday Economy and the Right to Food
This article makes the case for incorporating the right to food into notions of the everyday economy in the UK. Beyond the important entitlement to sufficient safe, nutritious and affordable food, the right to food calls for structural change in the current food system and the empowerment of citizens in the everyday production, procurement and consumption of food. We consider the role of reproduction and consumption of food in everyday settings o…
Exceptional “We” or Exceptional “Me”? Donald Trump, American Exceptionalism, and the Remaking of the Modern Jeremiad
This article examines how Donald Trump remade the modern jeremiad during his 2016 presidential campaign. We argue that Trump differed from recent oppositional candidates for the presidency in his invocation of American exceptionalism. Our findings show that unlike his predecessors: (1) Trump's use of the jeremiad was constrained by his limited conception of American exceptionalism; (2) Trump routinely portrayed the country as no longer exceptiona…
The Food Politics of Brexit
O, The Roast Beef of Old England! Brexit and Gastronationalism
‘Gastronationalism’ is the idea that there are distinctive and authentic national food cultures that are threatened by the forces of globalisation. It is a myth: there are no unique or authentically distinctive national culinary cultures. But the idea of gastronationalism is a powerful one that can have important political effects, as Brexit shows. In this article, I chart the rise of British food with regard to Britain’s historical relationship …
Make America Great Again
In this article, I explore presidential candidate Trump’s rhetoric concerning America’s role in the world. I argue Trump’s rhetoric broke with the post-World War II consensus of maintaining and extending U.S. globalism. I further assert that Trump modified America’s exceptionalist arguments that served as rhetorical support for this consensus. Trump’s rhetoric suggested the United States’ current path in foreign policy was in a state of chaos tha…
Students’ and Parents’ Perceptions of Disciplinary Policy
This article examines the effects of symbolic representation and strict disciplinary policy on how students and their parents perceive school discipline. We use data from the 2011-2012 New York City School Survey, combined with data on disciplinary actions from the Office of Civil Rights. Our results suggest that strict disciplinary actions send negative messages to students and their parents about school discipline. We find that as more strict d…
Representative Bureaucracy and School Discipline
This article examines whether the racial context within local communities influences the assignment of disciplinary policies in public schools. First, we consider whether different policies may be assigned to similar target groups across varying racial contexts. Then, we consider whether the racial context moderates the transition from passive representation to active representation among bureaucrats. We draw from two theories of intergroup relat…
Guaranteed Rotation in Office’
The misguided search for the political
Immigrant employment through the Great Recession
Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employm…
Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)
The innovation of environmental policies and their subsequent diffusion throughout the American states has been the subject of significant academic attention. Using an event history analysis, a traditional geographic model for policy diffusion is tested against a model where states learn from peer groups, defined by political culture. There is evidence for state learning within peer groups but less support for diffusion across state borders. Poli…
Play and Democracy
In this essay I argue that the work of the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga is an important resource for contemporary democratic theory because his employment of the concept of play illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of agonistic thought. I employ a reading of Huizinga to explore three central problems of contemporary agonism: the distinction between antagonism and agonism; the representative or expressive character of the agon; and the …
Foucault and the Continuation of War
In this chapter, I’ll focus on Michel Foucault’s analysis of the relationship between war, power relations and politics in his series of lectures published as Society Must Be Defended. I’ll argue that Foucault gives us good reasons to contest the liberal conception of politics as the suppression of war and the Clausewitzian view of war as a small-arm of politics. But I’ll argue against the view that Foucault is providing us with a general account…
An Exceptional Debate
The article reviews several books including “The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism,” by Andrew Bacevich, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” by Geoffrey Hodgson, and “The New American Exceptionalism,” by Donald E. Pease
Redefining Sovereignty
This essay examines United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s rhetoric concerning the responsibility to protect doctrine (R2P). This essay seeks to rhetorically map the arguments concerning the nature of R2P and what its specific components are. Specifically, I argue that Ban Ki-Moon’s rhetoric serves to redefine and update sovereignty and the responsibilities of statehood for a twenty-first century world. The rhetoric of R2P has important i…
Marx Through Post-Structuralism
Freedom, Free Institutions and the Big Society
Book synopsis: Retrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain’s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance. \nOffers an original and critical take on the idea of the Big Society \nAttempts to make sense of the Big Society by placing in the context of the history of localism, mutualism, and voluntarism \nFeatures contrib…
Retrieving the Big Society
Book synopsis: Retrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain’s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance. \nOffers an original and critical take on the idea of the Big Society \nAttempts to make sense of the Big Society by placing in the context of the history of localism, mutualism, and voluntarism \nFeatures contrib…
Debating America's Role in the World
This essay examines Texas representative Ron Paul's foreign policy discourse during the 2008 presidential campaign. The author argues that Paul encased his opposition to America's foreign policy within a secular jeremiad. Although Paul failed to win any of the Republican primaries, his opposition to America's involvement with Iraq and other parts of the globe is a microcosm of a larger debate occurring among U.S. foreign policy elites on the exte…
Introduction
(2010). Introduction: From the East India Company to the West Indies and Beyond: The World of British Sculpture, c. 1757–1947. Visual Culture in Britain: Vol. 11, British Sculpture c. 1757–1947: Global Contexts, pp. 147-172
The misguided search for the political
Representative Bureaucracy and School Discipline
This article examines whether the racial context within local communities influences the assignment of disciplinary policies in public schools. First, we consider whether different policies may be assigned to similar target groups across varying racial contexts. Then, we consider whether the racial context moderates the transition from passive representation to active representation among bureaucrats. We draw from two theories of intergroup relat…
Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)
The innovation of environmental policies and their subsequent diffusion throughout the American states has been the subject of significant academic attention. Using an event history analysis, a traditional geographic model for policy diffusion is tested against a model where states learn from peer groups, defined by political culture. There is evidence for state learning within peer groups but less support for diffusion across state borders. Poli…
Students’ and Parents’ Perceptions of Disciplinary Policy
This article examines the effects of symbolic representation and strict disciplinary policy on how students and their parents perceive school discipline. We use data from the 2011-2012 New York City School Survey, combined with data on disciplinary actions from the Office of Civil Rights. Our results suggest that strict disciplinary actions send negative messages to students and their parents about school discipline. We find that as more strict d…
Immigrant employment through the Great Recession
Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employm…
The ideological interpellation of individuals as combatants
Ideology forms social and political actors. This claim is disconcerting for those who believe it rules out the contribution of ‘agency’ in social, political and ideological change. In this article, I consider the work of Reinhart Koselleck and Michel Foucault in tandem to demonstrate that such concerns are misplaced. Together, Koselleck and Foucault can aid us in understanding how ideology interpellates individuals as combatants, or in other word…
Play and Democracy
In this essay I argue that the work of the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga is an important resource for contemporary democratic theory because his employment of the concept of play illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of agonistic thought. I employ a reading of Huizinga to explore three central problems of contemporary agonism: the distinction between antagonism and agonism; the representative or expressive character of the agon; and the …
Retrieving the Big Society
Book synopsis: Retrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain’s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance. \nOffers an original and critical take on the idea of the Big Society \nAttempts to make sense of the Big Society by placing in the context of the history of localism, mutualism, and voluntarism \nFeatures contrib…
Critique and Crisis Today
O, The Roast Beef of Old England! Brexit and Gastronationalism
‘Gastronationalism’ is the idea that there are distinctive and authentic national food cultures that are threatened by the forces of globalisation. It is a myth: there are no unique or authentically distinctive national culinary cultures. But the idea of gastronationalism is a powerful one that can have important political effects, as Brexit shows. In this article, I chart the rise of British food with regard to Britain’s historical relationship …
Sanctioning Foreign Policy
This article examines how contemporary presidents invoke the memory of President Harry Truman within their foreign policy discourse. Specifically, it is argued that Truman has become an authorizing figure—a person of historical importance that rhetors invoke and interpret in justifying their own policies and principles. Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and Bush cited and interpreted Truman's words and deeds in various ways to serve different foreign p…
Bill Clinton’s “new partnership” anecdote
This essay explores the composition of United States post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric under President Bill Clinton. We contend that Bill Clinton offered a coherent and comprehensive foreign policy narrative for the direction of U.S. foreign policy discourse in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, we analyze the “new partnership” narrative that Clinton articulated in his 1998 trip to Africa as a representative anecdote for the larger body o…
Evolutionary psychology and politics
Like its predecessor sociobiology, evolutionary psychology has distanced itself from political discourse. In so far as evolutionary psychology can contribute towards an understanding of politics, it claims to do so only as a potential explanation for political behaviour. However, I argue that evolutionary psychology - like sociobiology - is itself a political phenomenon. It proceeds from a conception of the political - drawn from the Hobbesian so…
An appetite for the system? A critical evaluation of the Dimbleby report
Exceptional “We” or Exceptional “Me”? Donald Trump, American Exceptionalism, and the Remaking of the Modern Jeremiad
This article examines how Donald Trump remade the modern jeremiad during his 2016 presidential campaign. We argue that Trump differed from recent oppositional candidates for the presidency in his invocation of American exceptionalism. Our findings show that unlike his predecessors: (1) Trump's use of the jeremiad was constrained by his limited conception of American exceptionalism; (2) Trump routinely portrayed the country as no longer exceptiona…
The Food Politics of Brexit
Freedom, Free Institutions and the Big Society
Book synopsis: Retrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain’s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance. \nOffers an original and critical take on the idea of the Big Society \nAttempts to make sense of the Big Society by placing in the context of the history of localism, mutualism, and voluntarism \nFeatures contrib…
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research
Journal Article BULLETIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH: SIR JOHN CECIL POWER, BART., 1870–1950 Get access J. G. Edwards J. G. Edwards Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 23, Issue 68, November 1950, Pages 139–146, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1950.tb00329.x Published: 12 October 2007
Evolutionary psychology and politics
Like its predecessor sociobiology, evolutionary psychology has distanced itself from political discourse. In so far as evolutionary psychology can contribute towards an understanding of politics, it claims to do so only as a potential explanation for political behaviour. However, I argue that evolutionary psychology - like sociobiology - is itself a political phenomenon. It proceeds from a conception of the political - drawn from the Hobbesian so…
Time Present and Time Past
Critique and Crisis Today
The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory
The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of modernity that can be best described as radical. First appearing in the sixteenth century, the attitude is best seen not a
The ideological interpellation of individuals as combatants
Ideology forms social and political actors. This claim is disconcerting for those who believe it rules out the contribution of ‘agency’ in social, political and ideological change. In this article, I consider the work of Reinhart Koselleck and Michel Foucault in tandem to demonstrate that such concerns are misplaced. Together, Koselleck and Foucault can aid us in understanding how ideology interpellates individuals as combatants, or in other word…
Bill Clinton’s “new partnership” anecdote
This essay explores the composition of United States post-Cold War foreign policy rhetoric under President Bill Clinton. We contend that Bill Clinton offered a coherent and comprehensive foreign policy narrative for the direction of U.S. foreign policy discourse in the post-Cold War world. Specifically, we analyze the “new partnership” narrative that Clinton articulated in his 1998 trip to Africa as a representative anecdote for the larger body o…
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards: introduces and explains key terms such as affects, the first person, homosocialities, and queer taxonomies, performativities and cusps considers Sedgwick’s poetry and textile art alongside her theoretical texts encourages a personal as well as an academ…
Sanctioning Foreign Policy
This article examines how contemporary presidents invoke the memory of President Harry Truman within their foreign policy discourse. Specifically, it is argued that Truman has become an authorizing figure—a person of historical importance that rhetors invoke and interpret in justifying their own policies and principles. Presidents Reagan, Clinton, and Bush cited and interpreted Truman's words and deeds in various ways to serve different foreign p…
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Introduction
(2010). Introduction: From the East India Company to the West Indies and Beyond: The World of British Sculpture, c. 1757–1947. Visual Culture in Britain: Vol. 11, British Sculpture c. 1757–1947: Global Contexts, pp. 147-172
Truman's Whistle-Stop Campaign - By Steven R. Goldzwig
Marx Through Post-Structuralism
Freedom, Free Institutions and the Big Society
Book synopsis: Retrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain’s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance. \nOffers an original and critical take on the idea of the Big Society \nAttempts to make sense of the Big Society by placing in the context of the history of localism, mutualism, and voluntarism \nFeatures contrib…
Retrieving the Big Society
Book synopsis: Retrieving the Big Society presents a collection of essays that challenge the view of Britain’s Big Society as a political gimmick and recognise it as an alternative to the central state in social and economic governance. \nOffers an original and critical take on the idea of the Big Society \nAttempts to make sense of the Big Society by placing in the context of the history of localism, mutualism, and voluntarism \nFeatures contrib…
Debating America's Role in the World
This essay examines Texas representative Ron Paul's foreign policy discourse during the 2008 presidential campaign. The author argues that Paul encased his opposition to America's foreign policy within a secular jeremiad. Although Paul failed to win any of the Republican primaries, his opposition to America's involvement with Iraq and other parts of the globe is a microcosm of a larger debate occurring among U.S. foreign policy elites on the exte…
Foucault and the Continuation of War
In this chapter, I’ll focus on Michel Foucault’s analysis of the relationship between war, power relations and politics in his series of lectures published as Society Must Be Defended. I’ll argue that Foucault gives us good reasons to contest the liberal conception of politics as the suppression of war and the Clausewitzian view of war as a small-arm of politics. But I’ll argue against the view that Foucault is providing us with a general account…
An Exceptional Debate
The article reviews several books including “The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism,” by Andrew Bacevich, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” by Geoffrey Hodgson, and “The New American Exceptionalism,” by Donald E. Pease
Redefining Sovereignty
This essay examines United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s rhetoric concerning the responsibility to protect doctrine (R2P). This essay seeks to rhetorically map the arguments concerning the nature of R2P and what its specific components are. Specifically, I argue that Ban Ki-Moon’s rhetoric serves to redefine and update sovereignty and the responsibilities of statehood for a twenty-first century world. The rhetoric of R2P has important i…
Play and Democracy
In this essay I argue that the work of the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga is an important resource for contemporary democratic theory because his employment of the concept of play illustrates both the strengths and weaknesses of agonistic thought. I employ a reading of Huizinga to explore three central problems of contemporary agonism: the distinction between antagonism and agonism; the representative or expressive character of the agon; and the …
Immigrant employment through the Great Recession
Immigrants continue to settle in metropolitan areas across the United States and bring significant changes to various urban labor markets. Using American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2007 and 2011, we trace the employment outcomes of immigrants compared to native-born workers before and after the recent Great Recession across the 100 largest metropolitan areas and examine individual-level and metropolitan-level factors that shape their employm…
Kindred spirits or intergovernmental competition? The innovation and diffusion of energy policies in the American states (1990–2008)
The innovation of environmental policies and their subsequent diffusion throughout the American states has been the subject of significant academic attention. Using an event history analysis, a traditional geographic model for policy diffusion is tested against a model where states learn from peer groups, defined by political culture. There is evidence for state learning within peer groups but less support for diffusion across state borders. Poli…
Representative Bureaucracy and School Discipline
This article examines whether the racial context within local communities influences the assignment of disciplinary policies in public schools. First, we consider whether different policies may be assigned to similar target groups across varying racial contexts. Then, we consider whether the racial context moderates the transition from passive representation to active representation among bureaucrats. We draw from two theories of intergroup relat…
Guaranteed Rotation in Office’
The misguided search for the political
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