Alan Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975996 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University College |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-3869-8581 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays
An overview of contemporary left discourse, the chapter argues that while left antisemitism has a long history it is most likely to be expressed today as anti-Israel hostility centring on a collection of labels and discourses that construct Israel as an illegitimate state and Zionism as a racist ideology.These labels and discourses -Israel is a ' Nazi-like', 'Apartheid', 'Settler-Colonial', and 'Pink-Washing' State, while Jews are 'White', 'Privi…
Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Revolution: A Critique
Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement
This book focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. It illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. The book shows that the bicultural, int…
Ghosts of Irish Famine in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
This essay argues that Anglo-Irish author J. G. Farrell’s 1973 Booker Prize-winning novel, in emphasizing the starvation of besieged Britishers during the so-called Mutiny of 1857, implicitly recalls the starvation of the Irish during the Great Famine of the 1840s. The potency of this tropological trace enables Farrell to satirize imperialism and, in the 1970s, imperial nostalgia, more effectively. By outlining the historical link between tropes …
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonia…
The American Worker and the Absurd Truth about Marxism
The American Worker and the Absurd Truth about Marxism
Discusses the relationship between the working class and Marxism in the U.S. Significance of the book "History and Class Consciousness," by Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács; Views of Marxist Friedrich Engels on the influence of U.S. conditions to the development of a worker's political party; Impact of immigration on the working class
Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements
Examines the relationship between social movements and equaliberty in the U.S. Information on women's liberation group Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality (Union WAGE); Details of the Equal Rights Amendment; Conflict between the National Organization of Women and Union WAGE
The savage city: Locating colonial modernity
(2003). The savage city: locating colonial modernity. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 315-332
Club Members: Reading John Masters’s Bhowani Junction
The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Vol. 1
Introduction Hal Draper: A Biographical Sketch
Hal Draper was born in Brooklyn in 1914, to East European Jewish immigrant parents. In 1932 he became active in the Student League for Industrial Democracy and the Socialist Party youth section, the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL). A leader of the Student Strikes Against War, he became an associate editor of Socialist Appeal in 1934. In 1937, the socialist youth, led by Draper and Ernest Erber, voted to support the Fourth International aft…
"Sanitary Duties" and Registered Women: A Reading of On the Face of the Waters
“Sanitary Duties” and Registered Women: A Reading of On the Face of the Waters Alan Johnson (bio) I The term “sanitary duties” in the title of this essay is taken from an August 12, 1857 memorandum from James Martin, a medical doctor and key player in health legislation in British India. He advises, “for the sanitary duties of the Army,” the appointment of “an official of scientific attainments . . . who shall . . . add to the Department of Milit…
It's Good to Talk: The Focus Group and the Sociological Imagination
This paper argues that the critical social scientist can employ the focus group - group discussions focused by a facilitator around a particular topic or area of experience - to recast radically both the social relations and the object of the research process. I explore the potential of the focus group to cultivate the sociological imagination in both the facilitating social scientist and the participants: in Bhaskarian terms, a 'transformational…
The Black Health Library Guide to Diabetes
The recognition of differential power in the sociology of law
In her review and assessment of the sociology of law, Arlene Sheskin argues that Pound, Ehrlich and Timasheff make certain assumptions about the law which are common in sociological and the sociology of law, but which preclude more accurate explanations of legal phenomena. According to Sheskin, traditional theories and research in the sociology of law assume among other things that: 1) the law neutrally reflects the common interests of the popula…
A Definition of the Concept of Law
A definition of the concept of law is developed by drawing on the works of jurists and anthropologists as well as sociologists. Law is conceptualized in terms of Sumner's definition of an institution, the "concept" being the normative law and the "apparatus" being the group engaging in legal action. The rudimentary forms oflegal norms and of legal actions which exist in all legal institutions are identified and described. The process by which the…
The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press
It's Good to Talk: The Focus Group and the Sociological Imagination
This paper argues that the critical social scientist can employ the focus group - group discussions focused by a facilitator around a particular topic or area of experience - to recast radically both the social relations and the object of the research process. I explore the potential of the focus group to cultivate the sociological imagination in both the facilitating social scientist and the participants: in Bhaskarian terms, a 'transformational…
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonia…
Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement
This book focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. It illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. The book shows that the bicultural, int…
Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Revolution: A Critique
Ghosts of Irish Famine in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
This essay argues that Anglo-Irish author J. G. Farrell’s 1973 Booker Prize-winning novel, in emphasizing the starvation of besieged Britishers during the so-called Mutiny of 1857, implicitly recalls the starvation of the Irish during the Great Famine of the 1840s. The potency of this tropological trace enables Farrell to satirize imperialism and, in the 1970s, imperial nostalgia, more effectively. By outlining the historical link between tropes …
The savage city: Locating colonial modernity
(2003). The savage city: locating colonial modernity. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 315-332
The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press
A Definition of the Concept of Law
A definition of the concept of law is developed by drawing on the works of jurists and anthropologists as well as sociologists. Law is conceptualized in terms of Sumner's definition of an institution, the "concept" being the normative law and the "apparatus" being the group engaging in legal action. The rudimentary forms oflegal norms and of legal actions which exist in all legal institutions are identified and described. The process by which the…
The recognition of differential power in the sociology of law
In her review and assessment of the sociology of law, Arlene Sheskin argues that Pound, Ehrlich and Timasheff make certain assumptions about the law which are common in sociological and the sociology of law, but which preclude more accurate explanations of legal phenomena. According to Sheskin, traditional theories and research in the sociology of law assume among other things that: 1) the law neutrally reflects the common interests of the popula…
The Black Health Library Guide to Diabetes
It's Good to Talk: The Focus Group and the Sociological Imagination
This paper argues that the critical social scientist can employ the focus group - group discussions focused by a facilitator around a particular topic or area of experience - to recast radically both the social relations and the object of the research process. I explore the potential of the focus group to cultivate the sociological imagination in both the facilitating social scientist and the participants: in Bhaskarian terms, a 'transformational…
"Sanitary Duties" and Registered Women: A Reading of On the Face of the Waters
“Sanitary Duties” and Registered Women: A Reading of On the Face of the Waters Alan Johnson (bio) I The term “sanitary duties” in the title of this essay is taken from an August 12, 1857 memorandum from James Martin, a medical doctor and key player in health legislation in British India. He advises, “for the sanitary duties of the Army,” the appointment of “an official of scientific attainments . . . who shall . . . add to the Department of Milit…
The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Vol. 1
Introduction Hal Draper: A Biographical Sketch
Hal Draper was born in Brooklyn in 1914, to East European Jewish immigrant parents. In 1932 he became active in the Student League for Industrial Democracy and the Socialist Party youth section, the Young People's Socialist League (YPSL). A leader of the Student Strikes Against War, he became an associate editor of Socialist Appeal in 1934. In 1937, the socialist youth, led by Draper and Ernest Erber, voted to support the Fourth International aft…
Club Members: Reading John Masters’s Bhowani Junction
The American Worker and the Absurd Truth about Marxism
Discusses the relationship between the working class and Marxism in the U.S. Significance of the book "History and Class Consciousness," by Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács; Views of Marxist Friedrich Engels on the influence of U.S. conditions to the development of a worker's political party; Impact of immigration on the working class
Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements
Examines the relationship between social movements and equaliberty in the U.S. Information on women's liberation group Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality (Union WAGE); Details of the Equal Rights Amendment; Conflict between the National Organization of Women and Union WAGE
The savage city: Locating colonial modernity
(2003). The savage city: locating colonial modernity. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 315-332
The American Worker and the Absurd Truth about Marxism
Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theater and Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Despite its importance to literary and cultural texts of resistance, theater has been largely overlooked as a field of analysis in colonial and postcolonial studies. of Authority/Acts of Resistance seeks to address that absence, as it uniquely views drama and performance as central to the practice of nationalism and anti-colonial resistance. Nandi Bhatia argues that Indian theater was a significant force in the struggle against oppressive colonia…
Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Revolution: A Critique
Out of Bounds: Anglo-Indian Literature and the Geography of Displacement
This book focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. It illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological underpinnings of such depictions and, from this, argues that these spaces operated as powerful motifs in the acculturation of Anglo-India. The book shows that the bicultural, int…
Ghosts of Irish Famine in J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
This essay argues that Anglo-Irish author J. G. Farrell’s 1973 Booker Prize-winning novel, in emphasizing the starvation of besieged Britishers during the so-called Mutiny of 1857, implicitly recalls the starvation of the Irish during the Great Famine of the 1840s. The potency of this tropological trace enables Farrell to satirize imperialism and, in the 1970s, imperial nostalgia, more effectively. By outlining the historical link between tropes …
Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
Mapping the New Left Antisemitism: The Fathom Essays
An overview of contemporary left discourse, the chapter argues that while left antisemitism has a long history it is most likely to be expressed today as anti-Israel hostility centring on a collection of labels and discourses that construct Israel as an illegitimate state and Zionism as a racist ideology.These labels and discourses -Israel is a ' Nazi-like', 'Apartheid', 'Settler-Colonial', and 'Pink-Washing' State, while Jews are 'White', 'Privi…
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