Tom Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0216-1046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Truganini
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
Britain’s promise to forget
This article is a personal reflection on the report produced by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, What Do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust? It reviews the report’s findings and reflects upon the gap between scholarly debates and public knowledge. It then attempts to account for this gap, especially in the light of the rhetoric surrounding Holocaust education and commemoration in the UK and the “need to remember.” Ultimately …
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
Norman Goda’s Jewish Histories of the Holocaust is an extraordinarily rich collection of essays that brings together an impressive range of Holocaust scholars. Many of the articles represent introductory ways into an individual author’s wider body of work on their particular aspect of the Holocaust’s Jewish history—from Daniel Blatman’s summary of the death marches, to Timothy Snyder’s introduction to the ‘Bloodlands’, to Omer Bartov’s work on Bu…
Van Diemen's Land
Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane's marvellous narrative “Aboriginal history” of Tasmania ends with these essentially uplifting words “there can be no denying that taken as a whole the Aboriginal pe
The Last Man
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the…
Coming to Terms with the Past
The question of how the Holocaust is located within wider histories of mass and especially colonial violence is once again at the forefront of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This essay surveys this debate, asking whether the lens of post-colonial studies might offer greater mutual understanding in what is an often intemperate discourse. This essay argues that the protagonists in the debate are united by a common desire to respond to what appear …
Alon Confino, Foundational Pasts
Memorializing colonial genocide in Britain
Britain is a post-genocidal state, although it (not surprisingly) has no official means for the memorialization of its colonial genocides. Britain cannot, however, be simply considered amnesiac about its genocidal past, which it has informally memorialized across various cultural genres. This article explores this observation through a case study of the ways in which the genocide of Indigenous Tasmanians has been remembered and indeed memorialize…
Ontology and the study of social reality
The conception of social reality I have previously defended (and here extend), positing features such as social relations, positions and powers, is thoroughly naturalistic and even consistent with modern interpretations of quantum field theory. It also serves to ground a social science that can be scientific in the sense of natural science. This is the thesis defended here. Central to the argument is an emphasis on a 'strong' form of emergence an…
We Remember? The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
The furore surrounding the response of the Catholic Church and especially Pope Pius XII to the Holocaust shows no sign of abating. Scholars are as likely to proclaim Pius XII the great defender of Jewish interests during the Second World War as they are to find him 'Hitler's Pope' and enthusiastic supporter of Nazi antisemitism. This article surveys the scholarship in this area, and demonstrates that this is a discourse concerned with more than j…
The Holocaust and Local History – An Introduction
This collection brings together a number of cutting edge Holocaust histories written by younger scholars and includes an introduction reflecting on the role of 'the local' in Holocaust studies. In doing so, the book emphasizes seeking local answers to global questions on the origins of genocide
“The Free-Masonry of Sorrow”
This article explores the national identities that were constructed in Britain in and around memorial activity in the aftermath of the Great War, and attempts to set them in context. It is argued that the same memorial acts could suggest identities that were both international in their vision and also narrowly national. Indeed, the tensions evident in the discourse of identity embodied in memorial activity indicate that the idea of the nation its…
Shaping the Holocaust
Journal Article Shaping the Holocaust: The Influence of Christian Discourse on Perceptions of the European Jewish Tragedy Get access Tom Lawson Tom Lawson University of Winchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, Winter 2007, Pages 404–420, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcm058 Published: 01 December 2007
Buried by The Times
New (and Old) Perspectives on the Catholic Church and the Holocaust
Recently there has been a flurry of publications reviewing the controversy of the Catholic response to the Holocaust. Despite an unchanging documentary record, all of these interventions have produced vastly differing conclusions. This article attempts to account for this range of historiographic perspectives, and uncovers a great diversity of philosophical and methodological approaches to the study of history, and deeper controversies regarding …
Editors’ Foreword
Ideology in a Museum of Memory
(2003). Ideology in a Museum of Memory: A Review of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 173-183
Ontology and Feminist Theorizing
In an earlier paper in Feminist Economics (Tony Lawson 1999), I suggested that there are likely significant benefits to feminist theorizing from adopting an explicit and sustained concern with ontology. I suggested this in the context of observing that theorizing of an explicitly ontological or realist nature is often downplayed and frequently actively discouraged in feminist writing. Several authors have since commented on my earlier paper, indi…
The Anglican Understanding of Nazism 1933-1945
This article seeks to revise the understanding of the Church of England's response to the Holocaust by placing it in the context of the Anglican understanding of the Nazi state as a whole. Exploring these perceptions from 1933, it is argued that the Anglican community consistently understood Nazism as primarily an anti‐Christian force, which in turn prevented the church from understanding the import of Nazi anti‐semitism. In doing so, this articl…
In Search of Refuge
National Socialist Extermination Policies
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-48
Ontology and the study of social reality
The conception of social reality I have previously defended (and here extend), positing features such as social relations, positions and powers, is thoroughly naturalistic and even consistent with modern interpretations of quantum field theory. It also serves to ground a social science that can be scientific in the sense of natural science. This is the thesis defended here. Central to the argument is an emphasis on a 'strong' form of emergence an…
National Socialist Extermination Policies
Britain’s promise to forget
This article is a personal reflection on the report produced by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, What Do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust? It reviews the report’s findings and reflects upon the gap between scholarly debates and public knowledge. It then attempts to account for this gap, especially in the light of the rhetoric surrounding Holocaust education and commemoration in the UK and the “need to remember.” Ultimately …
Van Diemen's Land
Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane's marvellous narrative “Aboriginal history” of Tasmania ends with these essentially uplifting words “there can be no denying that taken as a whole the Aboriginal pe
Coming to Terms with the Past
The question of how the Holocaust is located within wider histories of mass and especially colonial violence is once again at the forefront of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This essay surveys this debate, asking whether the lens of post-colonial studies might offer greater mutual understanding in what is an often intemperate discourse. This essay argues that the protagonists in the debate are united by a common desire to respond to what appear …
Ontology and Feminist Theorizing
In an earlier paper in Feminist Economics (Tony Lawson 1999), I suggested that there are likely significant benefits to feminist theorizing from adopting an explicit and sustained concern with ontology. I suggested this in the context of observing that theorizing of an explicitly ontological or realist nature is often downplayed and frequently actively discouraged in feminist writing. Several authors have since commented on my earlier paper, indi…
The Anglican Understanding of Nazism 1933-1945
This article seeks to revise the understanding of the Church of England's response to the Holocaust by placing it in the context of the Anglican understanding of the Nazi state as a whole. Exploring these perceptions from 1933, it is argued that the Anglican community consistently understood Nazism as primarily an anti‐Christian force, which in turn prevented the church from understanding the import of Nazi anti‐semitism. In doing so, this articl…
Shaping the Holocaust
Journal Article Shaping the Holocaust: The Influence of Christian Discourse on Perceptions of the European Jewish Tragedy Get access Tom Lawson Tom Lawson University of Winchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, Winter 2007, Pages 404–420, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcm058 Published: 01 December 2007
Whitehall and the Jews, 1933-48
National Socialist Extermination Policies
Ideology in a Museum of Memory
(2003). Ideology in a Museum of Memory: A Review of the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 173-183
Ontology and Feminist Theorizing
In an earlier paper in Feminist Economics (Tony Lawson 1999), I suggested that there are likely significant benefits to feminist theorizing from adopting an explicit and sustained concern with ontology. I suggested this in the context of observing that theorizing of an explicitly ontological or realist nature is often downplayed and frequently actively discouraged in feminist writing. Several authors have since commented on my earlier paper, indi…
The Anglican Understanding of Nazism 1933-1945
This article seeks to revise the understanding of the Church of England's response to the Holocaust by placing it in the context of the Anglican understanding of the Nazi state as a whole. Exploring these perceptions from 1933, it is argued that the Anglican community consistently understood Nazism as primarily an anti‐Christian force, which in turn prevented the church from understanding the import of Nazi anti‐semitism. In doing so, this articl…
In Search of Refuge
New (and Old) Perspectives on the Catholic Church and the Holocaust
Recently there has been a flurry of publications reviewing the controversy of the Catholic response to the Holocaust. Despite an unchanging documentary record, all of these interventions have produced vastly differing conclusions. This article attempts to account for this range of historiographic perspectives, and uncovers a great diversity of philosophical and methodological approaches to the study of history, and deeper controversies regarding …
Editors’ Foreword
Buried by The Times
Shaping the Holocaust
Journal Article Shaping the Holocaust: The Influence of Christian Discourse on Perceptions of the European Jewish Tragedy Get access Tom Lawson Tom Lawson University of Winchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 21, Issue 3, Winter 2007, Pages 404–420, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcm058 Published: 01 December 2007
“The Free-Masonry of Sorrow”
This article explores the national identities that were constructed in Britain in and around memorial activity in the aftermath of the Great War, and attempts to set them in context. It is argued that the same memorial acts could suggest identities that were both international in their vision and also narrowly national. Indeed, the tensions evident in the discourse of identity embodied in memorial activity indicate that the idea of the nation its…
The Holocaust and Local History – An Introduction
This collection brings together a number of cutting edge Holocaust histories written by younger scholars and includes an introduction reflecting on the role of 'the local' in Holocaust studies. In doing so, the book emphasizes seeking local answers to global questions on the origins of genocide
We Remember? The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
The furore surrounding the response of the Catholic Church and especially Pope Pius XII to the Holocaust shows no sign of abating. Scholars are as likely to proclaim Pius XII the great defender of Jewish interests during the Second World War as they are to find him 'Hitler's Pope' and enthusiastic supporter of Nazi antisemitism. This article surveys the scholarship in this area, and demonstrates that this is a discourse concerned with more than j…
Ontology and the study of social reality
The conception of social reality I have previously defended (and here extend), positing features such as social relations, positions and powers, is thoroughly naturalistic and even consistent with modern interpretations of quantum field theory. It also serves to ground a social science that can be scientific in the sense of natural science. This is the thesis defended here. Central to the argument is an emphasis on a 'strong' form of emergence an…
The Last Man
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider British society in this genocide. It positions the destruction as a consequence of British policy, and ideology in the…
Coming to Terms with the Past
The question of how the Holocaust is located within wider histories of mass and especially colonial violence is once again at the forefront of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. This essay surveys this debate, asking whether the lens of post-colonial studies might offer greater mutual understanding in what is an often intemperate discourse. This essay argues that the protagonists in the debate are united by a common desire to respond to what appear …
Alon Confino, Foundational Pasts
Memorializing colonial genocide in Britain
Britain is a post-genocidal state, although it (not surprisingly) has no official means for the memorialization of its colonial genocides. Britain cannot, however, be simply considered amnesiac about its genocidal past, which it has informally memorialized across various cultural genres. This article explores this observation through a case study of the ways in which the genocide of Indigenous Tasmanians has been remembered and indeed memorialize…
Van Diemen's Land
Murray Johnson and Ian McFarlane's marvellous narrative “Aboriginal history” of Tasmania ends with these essentially uplifting words “there can be no denying that taken as a whole the Aboriginal pe
Jewish Histories of the Holocaust
Norman Goda’s Jewish Histories of the Holocaust is an extraordinarily rich collection of essays that brings together an impressive range of Holocaust scholars. Many of the articles represent introductory ways into an individual author’s wider body of work on their particular aspect of the Holocaust’s Jewish history—from Daniel Blatman’s summary of the death marches, to Timothy Snyder’s introduction to the ‘Bloodlands’, to Omer Bartov’s work on Bu…
Britain’s promise to forget
This article is a personal reflection on the report produced by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, What Do Students Know and Understand about the Holocaust? It reviews the report’s findings and reflects upon the gap between scholarly debates and public knowledge. It then attempts to account for this gap, especially in the light of the rhetoric surrounding Holocaust education and commemoration in the UK and the “need to remember.” Ultimately …
The Miles Franklin Literary Award
Truganini
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · History (16 works) · History (13 works) · The Holocaust (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works)