Edwin Bacon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Bacon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bacon |
| SIGNATURE | BACON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Metaphysical War? – Patriarch Kirill and Multi-Level Information Engagement Around the War in Ukraine
Analysis of Patriarch Kirill's discourse around Russia's war against Ukraine, identifying different discursive levels from the perspective of political theology. The Russian Orthodox Church is known for its closeness to the Putin regime and is seen as supportive with regard to Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2022. How does the Church justify this from the theological perspective? Analysis of arguments used by Patriarch Kirill reveals that many…
Teaching applied politics
The growth of applied politics teaching in recent years is often conflated by academics, institutions, and professional associations with the employability agenda increasingly promoted by government. Many academics – politics faculty to the fore – object to the imposition of neo-liberal values on universities, the commodification of higher education, and a focus on employability in their teaching. These developments, coupled with a sense that the…
Reflexive and Reasoned Religious Nationalism
Nationalism theory has long acknowledged that in its relation to nationalism, “religion” can refer both to a reflexive identity attached to a people group, and to a reasoned value-based position articulated by an élite. Even this bifurcation remains insufficiently precise. Religio-nationalisms reasonedex patria—that is, beginning with the nationalist and proceeding from there to incorporate religion—tend toward values of exclusivity and animosity…
Securitising Russia
This book shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia. Since the early 1990s, Russia has been repeatedly analysed in terms of whether it is …
Contemporary Russia
Book synopsis: Contemporary Russia provides a readable and accessible introduction to Russia's politics, economics, and society especially of the Putin legacy and Medvedev's presidency. Present developments are set in the historical context of the events and trends of Russia's first post-Soviet decade and of the country's changing place in the world.
The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics , by Irina Papkova
The August 2012 jailing of Pussy Riot activists for their anti-Putin stunt in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour saw popular conceptions of the role of the Orthodox Church in Russian politics
Writing Russia's Future
The development of prediction and forecasting in the social sciences over the past century and more is closely linked with developments in Russia. The Soviet collapse undermined confidence in predictive capabilities, and scenario planning emerged as the dominant future-oriented methodology in area studies, including the study of Russia. Scenarists anticipate multiple futures rather than predicting one. The approach is too rarely critiqued. Buildi…
Public Political Narratives
The place of narrative in political science is an issue that resurfaces with regularity, usually focusing on the questions of generalisability, evidence and causality which lie at the heart of the discipline. Most such debate concerns the use of narrative by political scientists. Far less attention has been devoted to the use of narrative by political actors, despite its relative ubiquity. Even where such attention has been given, it concentrates…
The youth movement Nashi
The youth movement Nashi was established in Russia with the support of the Putin regime in 2005. The success of anti-regime demonstrators in Ukraine's ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2004 had been noted in Moscow, and Nashi's role was to serve as a pro-regime force to be mobilised against the opposition. Its focus was the contentious politics of the street. Nashi represents an interesting theoretical case from the perspective of contentious politics and i…
Electoral manipulation and the development of Russia's political system
The allegations of electoral manipulation surrounding Russia's parliamentary election of December 2011 were nothing new. Regional elections in October 2009 resulted in victory for Putin's United Russia, followed by a walkout from the State Duma by the other parliamentary parties, to protest the elections' conduct. Multi-layered questions surround the role of electoral manipulation for different actors in Russia's political system. Analysis focuse…
Comparing political futures
The predictive ability of scholars of politics has long been a subject of theoretical debate and methodological development. In theoretical debate, prediction represents a central issue regarding the extent to which the study of politics is scientific. In methodological development, much effort and resource have been devoted to a diverse range of predictive approaches, with varying degrees of success. Expectations that scholars forecast accuratel…
Securitising Russia
This book shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia. Since the early 1990s, Russia has been repeatedly analysed in terms of whether it is …
Securitising Russia
The Church and politics in Russia
It has become commonplace for observers of post-Soviet Russia to note the increasing role of religion in public life. Religion, and in particular the Russian Orthodox Church, appears to have political significance, and yet this significance is not easy to place in terms of its location and extent. At the most obvious level, the church has political significance through the broad-based support for Orthodoxy amongst the Russian population. Opinion …
Afghanistan
Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal, D. Cordovez and S. Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.450. £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–13–506294. Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War, Mark Galeotti. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1995, pp.256 pp. £30.00/$37.50. ISBN 0–7146–4567–2
The Gulag at War
Book synopsis: The Gulag at War reveals for the first time official documents kept in the archives of the Soviet forced labour system. An assessment of previous western and Russian studies of the Gulag is followed by a description of its origins. The bulk of the book then concentrates on the labour camps during the Second World War years. New information is revealed regarding prisoner numbers, living conditions, the organisation of forced labour,…
L'importance du travail forcé dans l'Union soviétique de Staline
The extent of forced labor in Stalin's Soviet Union. Recent revelations from the archives of the former Soviet Union have provided much detailed data on the population of the GULAG forced labour system. These data add significant information to the decades of academic debate on the question of the extent of the Soviet forced labour system, but detailed assessment shows that they do not yet constitute the final word. The archival revelations also …
Glasnost' and the Gulag
(1992). Glasnost' and the Gulag: New information on soviet forced labour around World War II. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 1069-1086
Public Political Narratives
The place of narrative in political science is an issue that resurfaces with regularity, usually focusing on the questions of generalisability, evidence and causality which lie at the heart of the discipline. Most such debate concerns the use of narrative by political scientists. Far less attention has been devoted to the use of narrative by political actors, despite its relative ubiquity. Even where such attention has been given, it concentrates…
The youth movement Nashi
The youth movement Nashi was established in Russia with the support of the Putin regime in 2005. The success of anti-regime demonstrators in Ukraine's ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2004 had been noted in Moscow, and Nashi's role was to serve as a pro-regime force to be mobilised against the opposition. Its focus was the contentious politics of the street. Nashi represents an interesting theoretical case from the perspective of contentious politics and i…
Electoral manipulation and the development of Russia's political system
The allegations of electoral manipulation surrounding Russia's parliamentary election of December 2011 were nothing new. Regional elections in October 2009 resulted in victory for Putin's United Russia, followed by a walkout from the State Duma by the other parliamentary parties, to protest the elections' conduct. Multi-layered questions surround the role of electoral manipulation for different actors in Russia's political system. Analysis focuse…
The Gulag at War
Book synopsis: The Gulag at War reveals for the first time official documents kept in the archives of the Soviet forced labour system. An assessment of previous western and Russian studies of the Gulag is followed by a description of its origins. The bulk of the book then concentrates on the labour camps during the Second World War years. New information is revealed regarding prisoner numbers, living conditions, the organisation of forced labour,…
Glasnost' and the Gulag
(1992). Glasnost' and the Gulag: New information on soviet forced labour around World War II. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 1069-1086
Teaching applied politics
The growth of applied politics teaching in recent years is often conflated by academics, institutions, and professional associations with the employability agenda increasingly promoted by government. Many academics – politics faculty to the fore – object to the imposition of neo-liberal values on universities, the commodification of higher education, and a focus on employability in their teaching. These developments, coupled with a sense that the…
Reflexive and Reasoned Religious Nationalism
Nationalism theory has long acknowledged that in its relation to nationalism, “religion” can refer both to a reflexive identity attached to a people group, and to a reasoned value-based position articulated by an élite. Even this bifurcation remains insufficiently precise. Religio-nationalisms reasonedex patria—that is, beginning with the nationalist and proceeding from there to incorporate religion—tend toward values of exclusivity and animosity…
The Church and politics in Russia
It has become commonplace for observers of post-Soviet Russia to note the increasing role of religion in public life. Religion, and in particular the Russian Orthodox Church, appears to have political significance, and yet this significance is not easy to place in terms of its location and extent. At the most obvious level, the church has political significance through the broad-based support for Orthodoxy amongst the Russian population. Opinion …
Writing Russia's Future
The development of prediction and forecasting in the social sciences over the past century and more is closely linked with developments in Russia. The Soviet collapse undermined confidence in predictive capabilities, and scenario planning emerged as the dominant future-oriented methodology in area studies, including the study of Russia. Scenarists anticipate multiple futures rather than predicting one. The approach is too rarely critiqued. Buildi…
L'importance du travail forcé dans l'Union soviétique de Staline
The extent of forced labor in Stalin's Soviet Union. Recent revelations from the archives of the former Soviet Union have provided much detailed data on the population of the GULAG forced labour system. These data add significant information to the decades of academic debate on the question of the extent of the Soviet forced labour system, but detailed assessment shows that they do not yet constitute the final word. The archival revelations also …
Glasnost' and the Gulag
(1992). Glasnost' and the Gulag: New information on soviet forced labour around World War II. Soviet Studies: Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 1069-1086
Afghanistan
Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal, D. Cordovez and S. Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, pp.450. £27.50 (hardback). ISBN 0–13–506294. Afghanistan: The Soviet Union's Last War, Mark Galeotti. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1995, pp.256 pp. £30.00/$37.50. ISBN 0–7146–4567–2
The Gulag at War
Book synopsis: The Gulag at War reveals for the first time official documents kept in the archives of the Soviet forced labour system. An assessment of previous western and Russian studies of the Gulag is followed by a description of its origins. The bulk of the book then concentrates on the labour camps during the Second World War years. New information is revealed regarding prisoner numbers, living conditions, the organisation of forced labour,…
The Church and politics in Russia
It has become commonplace for observers of post-Soviet Russia to note the increasing role of religion in public life. Religion, and in particular the Russian Orthodox Church, appears to have political significance, and yet this significance is not easy to place in terms of its location and extent. At the most obvious level, the church has political significance through the broad-based support for Orthodoxy amongst the Russian population. Opinion …
Securitising Russia
This book shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia. Since the early 1990s, Russia has been repeatedly analysed in terms of whether it is …
Securitising Russia
Writing Russia's Future
The development of prediction and forecasting in the social sciences over the past century and more is closely linked with developments in Russia. The Soviet collapse undermined confidence in predictive capabilities, and scenario planning emerged as the dominant future-oriented methodology in area studies, including the study of Russia. Scenarists anticipate multiple futures rather than predicting one. The approach is too rarely critiqued. Buildi…
Public Political Narratives
The place of narrative in political science is an issue that resurfaces with regularity, usually focusing on the questions of generalisability, evidence and causality which lie at the heart of the discipline. Most such debate concerns the use of narrative by political scientists. Far less attention has been devoted to the use of narrative by political actors, despite its relative ubiquity. Even where such attention has been given, it concentrates…
The youth movement Nashi
The youth movement Nashi was established in Russia with the support of the Putin regime in 2005. The success of anti-regime demonstrators in Ukraine's ‘Orange Revolution’ in 2004 had been noted in Moscow, and Nashi's role was to serve as a pro-regime force to be mobilised against the opposition. Its focus was the contentious politics of the street. Nashi represents an interesting theoretical case from the perspective of contentious politics and i…
Electoral manipulation and the development of Russia's political system
The allegations of electoral manipulation surrounding Russia's parliamentary election of December 2011 were nothing new. Regional elections in October 2009 resulted in victory for Putin's United Russia, followed by a walkout from the State Duma by the other parliamentary parties, to protest the elections' conduct. Multi-layered questions surround the role of electoral manipulation for different actors in Russia's political system. Analysis focuse…
Comparing political futures
The predictive ability of scholars of politics has long been a subject of theoretical debate and methodological development. In theoretical debate, prediction represents a central issue regarding the extent to which the study of politics is scientific. In methodological development, much effort and resource have been devoted to a diverse range of predictive approaches, with varying degrees of success. Expectations that scholars forecast accuratel…
The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics , by Irina Papkova
The August 2012 jailing of Pussy Riot activists for their anti-Putin stunt in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour saw popular conceptions of the role of the Orthodox Church in Russian politics
Contemporary Russia
Book synopsis: Contemporary Russia provides a readable and accessible introduction to Russia's politics, economics, and society especially of the Putin legacy and Medvedev's presidency. Present developments are set in the historical context of the events and trends of Russia's first post-Soviet decade and of the country's changing place in the world.
Securitising Russia
This book shows the impact of twenty-first-century security concerns on the way Russia is ruled. It demonstrates how President Vladimir Putin has wrestled with terrorism, immigration, media freedom, religious pluralism, and economic globalism, and argues that fears of a return to old-style authoritarianism oversimplify the complex context of contemporary Russia. Since the early 1990s, Russia has been repeatedly analysed in terms of whether it is …
Teaching applied politics
The growth of applied politics teaching in recent years is often conflated by academics, institutions, and professional associations with the employability agenda increasingly promoted by government. Many academics – politics faculty to the fore – object to the imposition of neo-liberal values on universities, the commodification of higher education, and a focus on employability in their teaching. These developments, coupled with a sense that the…
Reflexive and Reasoned Religious Nationalism
Nationalism theory has long acknowledged that in its relation to nationalism, “religion” can refer both to a reflexive identity attached to a people group, and to a reasoned value-based position articulated by an élite. Even this bifurcation remains insufficiently precise. Religio-nationalisms reasonedex patria—that is, beginning with the nationalist and proceeding from there to incorporate religion—tend toward values of exclusivity and animosity…
Metaphysical War? – Patriarch Kirill and Multi-Level Information Engagement Around the War in Ukraine
Analysis of Patriarch Kirill's discourse around Russia's war against Ukraine, identifying different discursive levels from the perspective of political theology. The Russian Orthodox Church is known for its closeness to the Putin regime and is seen as supportive with regard to Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2022. How does the Church justify this from the theological perspective? Analysis of arguments used by Patriarch Kirill reveals that many…
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