Russell Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3154-9074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Imperial Gothic 2.0: Brexit, Brex-Lit, and everyday Euroscepticism in British popular culture
In recent years, scholarship on postfunctionalism in European integration has drawn attention to how processes of Europeanisation are not restricted to policymakers, but exist equally (if not more significantly) in the quotidian. The 2016–2020 Brexit process and debates on the relationship between national identity and ‘Europeanness’ urge a new consideration of how Europeanisation is narrated in everyday discourses. This paper analyses British fi…
Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community
This article explores an emerging strategy by sections of the British radical right towards the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community, who the radical right claim are existentially threatened by the alleged violent homophobia of Islam and their ostensible betrayal by ‘the left’. Consequently, parts of the radical right present themselves as the ‘true’ protectors of LGBTQ+ individuals through what we term alter-progressi…
From ‘Brexhaustion’ to ‘Covidiots’: The UK United Kingdom and the Populist Future
Boris Johnson’s electoral victory and the 2020 culmination of Brexit are accelerating Britain’s shift towards the right and towards open criticism of technocracy in the UK and EU. Since 2016 the UK’s political atmosphere has polarised into hostile extremes. The continuation of this toxicity beyond Brexit, the dominance of nationalist narratives as Britain’s new ‘politics of everything’ (Valluvan 2019). While the Conservative Party remains traditi…
The Limits of EUropean Legitimacy: On Populism and Technocracy. Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces the special issue on populism and technocracy in the integration and governance of the European Union (EU), framing these opposing approaches in the context of polarised debate on the (il)legitimacy of the EU. The special issue was conceived as an interdisciplinary approach to questions of the EU’s legitimacy in the aftermath of structural crises (the eurozone, sovereign debt and the election and appointment of governing a…
Which ideas should guide US Foreign Policy? Holding fundamentalist policy paradigms to account
The limits of EUrope
Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George’: Europe and the limits of integrating identity
Since the early 1990s a dominant modernist narrative has assumed that European integration and the progressive march of secularism, multiculturalism and increased material prosperity would lead to the fading-away of tribal, national, racial and other parochial identities; identities ostensibly incompatible with a meta-national ‘European’ identity founded not in ethnosymbolic myth, but in cosmopolitanism. This has informed not only academic theory…
Empire
Empire – according to Western intellectual history – is a widely used and contested word that has been applied in economic, geographical, political, and cultural discourses. Empire is best understood not as a political reality that can be defined and conceptualized by structures and as entities, but as a discourse of superiority, legitimacy, duty, and destiny.
Towards a geopolitics of atheism: Critical geopolitics post the 'War on Terror
Through a glass, darkly
An empire is not a taxonomy of state but rather a discourse; an expression of power and ambition which is used to endow an artificial political project with sovereignty, legitimacy, superiority, exclusivity, and, most importantly, destiny. It is just not that empire is a discourse but that the most powerful arena in which the discourse manifests is in visual communication and the language of symbols. To understand the European Union (EU) as empir…
Introduction to geopolitics: Second edition
Geopolitics remains a cornerstone of contemporary human geography, with new introductions on the topic frequently appearing. Among these, Colin Flint's second edition of Introduction to geopolitics
Between these two kinds of death
Tabula Imperii Europae: A Cartographic Approach to the Current Debate on the European Union as Empire
Maps are much more than geographic tools. They are powerful visual icons of statehood and identity. Created by agents tainted by their own historical subjectivity, maps are saturated with multiple levels of meaning, while their perceived status as accurate scientific tools lends them an authority which the map-reader is not meant to question. This paper examines maps from a Gadamerian hermeneutic perspective to investigate the layers of meaning e…
Tege Imperium: A Defence of Empire
‘Empire’ is a pejorative word in contemporary political science, a term which no longer describes a system of government and social organisation but which now serves only as an unflattering term, an accusation levelled against undesirable polities and policies. In the collective minds of academia and the community, moreover, ‘empire’ is either a concept with many meanings and applications, or simply a catch-all word for the violence and oppressio…
Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community
This article explores an emerging strategy by sections of the British radical right towards the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community, who the radical right claim are existentially threatened by the alleged violent homophobia of Islam and their ostensible betrayal by ‘the left’. Consequently, parts of the radical right present themselves as the ‘true’ protectors of LGBTQ+ individuals through what we term alter-progressi…
Tabula Imperii Europae: A Cartographic Approach to the Current Debate on the European Union as Empire
Maps are much more than geographic tools. They are powerful visual icons of statehood and identity. Created by agents tainted by their own historical subjectivity, maps are saturated with multiple levels of meaning, while their perceived status as accurate scientific tools lends them an authority which the map-reader is not meant to question. This paper examines maps from a Gadamerian hermeneutic perspective to investigate the layers of meaning e…
From ‘Brexhaustion’ to ‘Covidiots’: The UK United Kingdom and the Populist Future
Boris Johnson’s electoral victory and the 2020 culmination of Brexit are accelerating Britain’s shift towards the right and towards open criticism of technocracy in the UK and EU. Since 2016 the UK’s political atmosphere has polarised into hostile extremes. The continuation of this toxicity beyond Brexit, the dominance of nationalist narratives as Britain’s new ‘politics of everything’ (Valluvan 2019). While the Conservative Party remains traditi…
The Limits of EUropean Legitimacy: On Populism and Technocracy. Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces the special issue on populism and technocracy in the integration and governance of the European Union (EU), framing these opposing approaches in the context of polarised debate on the (il)legitimacy of the EU. The special issue was conceived as an interdisciplinary approach to questions of the EU’s legitimacy in the aftermath of structural crises (the eurozone, sovereign debt and the election and appointment of governing a…
Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George’: Europe and the limits of integrating identity
Since the early 1990s a dominant modernist narrative has assumed that European integration and the progressive march of secularism, multiculturalism and increased material prosperity would lead to the fading-away of tribal, national, racial and other parochial identities; identities ostensibly incompatible with a meta-national ‘European’ identity founded not in ethnosymbolic myth, but in cosmopolitanism. This has informed not only academic theory…
Towards a geopolitics of atheism: Critical geopolitics post the 'War on Terror
Imperial Gothic 2.0: Brexit, Brex-Lit, and everyday Euroscepticism in British popular culture
In recent years, scholarship on postfunctionalism in European integration has drawn attention to how processes of Europeanisation are not restricted to policymakers, but exist equally (if not more significantly) in the quotidian. The 2016–2020 Brexit process and debates on the relationship between national identity and ‘Europeanness’ urge a new consideration of how Europeanisation is narrated in everyday discourses. This paper analyses British fi…
Tege Imperium: A Defence of Empire
‘Empire’ is a pejorative word in contemporary political science, a term which no longer describes a system of government and social organisation but which now serves only as an unflattering term, an accusation levelled against undesirable polities and policies. In the collective minds of academia and the community, moreover, ‘empire’ is either a concept with many meanings and applications, or simply a catch-all word for the violence and oppressio…
Between these two kinds of death
Tabula Imperii Europae: A Cartographic Approach to the Current Debate on the European Union as Empire
Maps are much more than geographic tools. They are powerful visual icons of statehood and identity. Created by agents tainted by their own historical subjectivity, maps are saturated with multiple levels of meaning, while their perceived status as accurate scientific tools lends them an authority which the map-reader is not meant to question. This paper examines maps from a Gadamerian hermeneutic perspective to investigate the layers of meaning e…
Through a glass, darkly
An empire is not a taxonomy of state but rather a discourse; an expression of power and ambition which is used to endow an artificial political project with sovereignty, legitimacy, superiority, exclusivity, and, most importantly, destiny. It is just not that empire is a discourse but that the most powerful arena in which the discourse manifests is in visual communication and the language of symbols. To understand the European Union (EU) as empir…
Introduction to geopolitics: Second edition
Geopolitics remains a cornerstone of contemporary human geography, with new introductions on the topic frequently appearing. Among these, Colin Flint's second edition of Introduction to geopolitics
Empire
Empire – according to Western intellectual history – is a widely used and contested word that has been applied in economic, geographical, political, and cultural discourses. Empire is best understood not as a political reality that can be defined and conceptualized by structures and as entities, but as a discourse of superiority, legitimacy, duty, and destiny.
Towards a geopolitics of atheism: Critical geopolitics post the 'War on Terror
The limits of EUrope
Cry God for Harry, England, and Saint George’: Europe and the limits of integrating identity
Since the early 1990s a dominant modernist narrative has assumed that European integration and the progressive march of secularism, multiculturalism and increased material prosperity would lead to the fading-away of tribal, national, racial and other parochial identities; identities ostensibly incompatible with a meta-national ‘European’ identity founded not in ethnosymbolic myth, but in cosmopolitanism. This has informed not only academic theory…
Which ideas should guide US Foreign Policy? Holding fundamentalist policy paradigms to account
From ‘Brexhaustion’ to ‘Covidiots’: The UK United Kingdom and the Populist Future
Boris Johnson’s electoral victory and the 2020 culmination of Brexit are accelerating Britain’s shift towards the right and towards open criticism of technocracy in the UK and EU. Since 2016 the UK’s political atmosphere has polarised into hostile extremes. The continuation of this toxicity beyond Brexit, the dominance of nationalist narratives as Britain’s new ‘politics of everything’ (Valluvan 2019). While the Conservative Party remains traditi…
The Limits of EUropean Legitimacy: On Populism and Technocracy. Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces the special issue on populism and technocracy in the integration and governance of the European Union (EU), framing these opposing approaches in the context of polarised debate on the (il)legitimacy of the EU. The special issue was conceived as an interdisciplinary approach to questions of the EU’s legitimacy in the aftermath of structural crises (the eurozone, sovereign debt and the election and appointment of governing a…
Imperial Gothic 2.0: Brexit, Brex-Lit, and everyday Euroscepticism in British popular culture
In recent years, scholarship on postfunctionalism in European integration has drawn attention to how processes of Europeanisation are not restricted to policymakers, but exist equally (if not more significantly) in the quotidian. The 2016–2020 Brexit process and debates on the relationship between national identity and ‘Europeanness’ urge a new consideration of how Europeanisation is narrated in everyday discourses. This paper analyses British fi…
Straighten Up and Fly Right’: Radical right attempts to appeal to the British LGBTQ+ community
This article explores an emerging strategy by sections of the British radical right towards the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) community, who the radical right claim are existentially threatened by the alleged violent homophobia of Islam and their ostensible betrayal by ‘the left’. Consequently, parts of the radical right present themselves as the ‘true’ protectors of LGBTQ+ individuals through what we term alter-progressi…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · European union (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)