Shane Brighton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shane Brighton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shane |
| FAMILY NAME | Brighton |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGHTON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Concepts and Histories of War
War/Truth: Foucault, Heraclitus and the hoplite Homer
This article extends and critiques Michel Foucault's political sociology of war by taking it beyond its modern subjects. Positioning his work alongside Homer, Heraclitus and Plato, it analyses relations between war, truth and race in the transition from Archaic to Classical Greece. In doing so, it approaches philosophical texts as direct reflections on specific historical experiences of war, making the case for a political theory of fighting as a…
Brown Britain: Post-Colonial Politics and Grand Strategy
How do we approach the subject of British grand strategy today? This article seeks a new approach to this question. It argues that there is a gap of grand strategic significance between actually-existing Britain and the Britain its political elites tend to imagine. The colonial and imperial histories that helped constitute and still shape the contemporary United Kingdom have fallen through this gap. One consequence is a grand strategic vision lim…
Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique1
This paper approaches the ontology of war by asking why, despite its constitutive function for politics and society, has war never been made the object of an academic discipline? Through an analysis of the relationship between war and knowledge about war, we argue that the ontology of war is such that it disrupts foundational claims of the kind necessary for conventional forms of academic disciplinarity. At the center of the ontology of war is fi…
Three Propositions on the Phenomenology of War: Three Propositions on the Phenomenology of War
Little in social and political life goes untouched by war. From a phenomenological perspective, this raises an array of questions: How does war manifest itself in the life-world, not least in “peace”? How and to what effect is it occluded? Considered as an “intentional object”—one “for me” and “for us”—how might war lay claim? How might it constitute the “I,” the “We,” and the “Other” that provide our everyday sociality? How might phenomenologica…
British Muslims, multiculturalism and UK foreign policy: Integration' and 'Cohesion' in and Beyond the State
After the 7 July and 21 July 2005 attacks on London the government-sponsored effort to ‘prevent extremism together’ has repeatedly acknowledged the central role of anger at UK foreign policy in the radicalization of some British Muslims. Examining the history of multiculturalism in Britain and the tradition of living and acting ‘together’ that it suggests, however, raises a set of questions about the society into which integration is supposed to …
The Embodiment of War: Reflections on the Tour of Duty
This essay approaches voyeurism from the point of view of the soldier on a “tour of duty” and teases out the implicit connections between the military gaze and the tourist gaze. While in training or on the battlefield, soldiers are driven by common discourses of patriotism, masculinity and heroism. However, Brighton explains that the coherence of fighting units is also a function of R&R and leisure time—when soldiers become tourists
Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique1
This paper approaches the ontology of war by asking why, despite its constitutive function for politics and society, has war never been made the object of an academic discipline? Through an analysis of the relationship between war and knowledge about war, we argue that the ontology of war is such that it disrupts foundational claims of the kind necessary for conventional forms of academic disciplinarity. At the center of the ontology of war is fi…
British Muslims, multiculturalism and UK foreign policy: Integration' and 'Cohesion' in and Beyond the State
After the 7 July and 21 July 2005 attacks on London the government-sponsored effort to ‘prevent extremism together’ has repeatedly acknowledged the central role of anger at UK foreign policy in the radicalization of some British Muslims. Examining the history of multiculturalism in Britain and the tradition of living and acting ‘together’ that it suggests, however, raises a set of questions about the society into which integration is supposed to …
War/Truth: Foucault, Heraclitus and the hoplite Homer
This article extends and critiques Michel Foucault's political sociology of war by taking it beyond its modern subjects. Positioning his work alongside Homer, Heraclitus and Plato, it analyses relations between war, truth and race in the transition from Archaic to Classical Greece. In doing so, it approaches philosophical texts as direct reflections on specific historical experiences of war, making the case for a political theory of fighting as a…
Three Propositions on the Phenomenology of War: Three Propositions on the Phenomenology of War
Little in social and political life goes untouched by war. From a phenomenological perspective, this raises an array of questions: How does war manifest itself in the life-world, not least in “peace”? How and to what effect is it occluded? Considered as an “intentional object”—one “for me” and “for us”—how might war lay claim? How might it constitute the “I,” the “We,” and the “Other” that provide our everyday sociality? How might phenomenologica…
Brown Britain: Post-Colonial Politics and Grand Strategy
How do we approach the subject of British grand strategy today? This article seeks a new approach to this question. It argues that there is a gap of grand strategic significance between actually-existing Britain and the Britain its political elites tend to imagine. The colonial and imperial histories that helped constitute and still shape the contemporary United Kingdom have fallen through this gap. One consequence is a grand strategic vision lim…
The Embodiment of War: Reflections on the Tour of Duty
This essay approaches voyeurism from the point of view of the soldier on a “tour of duty” and teases out the implicit connections between the military gaze and the tourist gaze. While in training or on the battlefield, soldiers are driven by common discourses of patriotism, masculinity and heroism. However, Brighton explains that the coherence of fighting units is also a function of R&R and leisure time—when soldiers become tourists
The Embodiment of War: Reflections on the Tour of Duty
This essay approaches voyeurism from the point of view of the soldier on a “tour of duty” and teases out the implicit connections between the military gaze and the tourist gaze. While in training or on the battlefield, soldiers are driven by common discourses of patriotism, masculinity and heroism. However, Brighton explains that the coherence of fighting units is also a function of R&R and leisure time—when soldiers become tourists
British Muslims, multiculturalism and UK foreign policy: Integration' and 'Cohesion' in and Beyond the State
After the 7 July and 21 July 2005 attacks on London the government-sponsored effort to ‘prevent extremism together’ has repeatedly acknowledged the central role of anger at UK foreign policy in the radicalization of some British Muslims. Examining the history of multiculturalism in Britain and the tradition of living and acting ‘together’ that it suggests, however, raises a set of questions about the society into which integration is supposed to …
Powers of War: Fighting, Knowledge, and Critique1
This paper approaches the ontology of war by asking why, despite its constitutive function for politics and society, has war never been made the object of an academic discipline? Through an analysis of the relationship between war and knowledge about war, we argue that the ontology of war is such that it disrupts foundational claims of the kind necessary for conventional forms of academic disciplinarity. At the center of the ontology of war is fi…
Three Propositions on the Phenomenology of War: Three Propositions on the Phenomenology of War
Little in social and political life goes untouched by war. From a phenomenological perspective, this raises an array of questions: How does war manifest itself in the life-world, not least in “peace”? How and to what effect is it occluded? Considered as an “intentional object”—one “for me” and “for us”—how might war lay claim? How might it constitute the “I,” the “We,” and the “Other” that provide our everyday sociality? How might phenomenologica…
War/Truth: Foucault, Heraclitus and the hoplite Homer
This article extends and critiques Michel Foucault's political sociology of war by taking it beyond its modern subjects. Positioning his work alongside Homer, Heraclitus and Plato, it analyses relations between war, truth and race in the transition from Archaic to Classical Greece. In doing so, it approaches philosophical texts as direct reflections on specific historical experiences of war, making the case for a political theory of fighting as a…
Brown Britain: Post-Colonial Politics and Grand Strategy
How do we approach the subject of British grand strategy today? This article seeks a new approach to this question. It argues that there is a gap of grand strategic significance between actually-existing Britain and the Britain its political elites tend to imagine. The colonial and imperial histories that helped constitute and still shape the contemporary United Kingdom have fallen through this gap. One consequence is a grand strategic vision lim…
Concepts and Histories of War
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (2 works)