Jake Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 4391177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jake Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jake |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3639-3697 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Brexit and the Everyday Politics of Emotion
The 2016 European Union referendum campaign has been depicted as a battle between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, reason and emotion. Voters’ propensity to trust their feelings over expert knowledge has sparked debate about the future of democratic politics in what is increasingly believed to be an ‘age of emotion’. In this article, we argue that we can learn from the ways that historians have approached the study of emotions and everyday politics to help …
Doctrine and Decision
The 2015–17 Parliament was the first time in history that the Conservatives were in government with no easily assembled majority in the House of Lords. This has fundamentally altered the role that Labour is able to play in the Lords and, conversely, that peers are able to play in the Labour party. Yet the political significance of this situation has not yet been fully appreciated by a party which remains culturally antagonistic and constitutional…
Populism as an intra-party phenomenon
This article seeks to demonstrate that the concept of populism can help us to understand the dynamics of intra-party politics. This argument is made via a case study of the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected as its leader in late 2015. Corbynism as a (highly personalistic) political phenomenon has relied, in its resistance to opposition from more moderate MPs to Labour’s leftward turn, upon the idea that the party’s members…
The lost world of the British Labour Party? Community, infiltration and disunity
Play and Participation in Contemporary Art Practices , by Tim Stott
How can we make, unmake, and remake the world by playing through art? This is the thrust of Tim Stott’s inquiry throughout Play and Participation in Contemporary Art Practices. Echoing Luhmann’s ‘O
Brexit and the Everyday Politics of Emotion
The 2016 European Union referendum campaign has been depicted as a battle between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, reason and emotion. Voters’ propensity to trust their feelings over expert knowledge has sparked debate about the future of democratic politics in what is increasingly believed to be an ‘age of emotion’. In this article, we argue that we can learn from the ways that historians have approached the study of emotions and everyday politics to help …
Populism as an intra-party phenomenon
This article seeks to demonstrate that the concept of populism can help us to understand the dynamics of intra-party politics. This argument is made via a case study of the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected as its leader in late 2015. Corbynism as a (highly personalistic) political phenomenon has relied, in its resistance to opposition from more moderate MPs to Labour’s leftward turn, upon the idea that the party’s members…
The lost world of the British Labour Party? Community, infiltration and disunity
Play and Participation in Contemporary Art Practices , by Tim Stott
How can we make, unmake, and remake the world by playing through art? This is the thrust of Tim Stott’s inquiry throughout Play and Participation in Contemporary Art Practices. Echoing Luhmann’s ‘O
The lost world of the British Labour Party? Community, infiltration and disunity
Populism as an intra-party phenomenon
This article seeks to demonstrate that the concept of populism can help us to understand the dynamics of intra-party politics. This argument is made via a case study of the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, who was elected as its leader in late 2015. Corbynism as a (highly personalistic) political phenomenon has relied, in its resistance to opposition from more moderate MPs to Labour’s leftward turn, upon the idea that the party’s members…
Doctrine and Decision
The 2015–17 Parliament was the first time in history that the Conservatives were in government with no easily assembled majority in the House of Lords. This has fundamentally altered the role that Labour is able to play in the Lords and, conversely, that peers are able to play in the Labour party. Yet the political significance of this situation has not yet been fully appreciated by a party which remains culturally antagonistic and constitutional…
Brexit and the Everyday Politics of Emotion
The 2016 European Union referendum campaign has been depicted as a battle between ‘heads’ and ‘hearts’, reason and emotion. Voters’ propensity to trust their feelings over expert knowledge has sparked debate about the future of democratic politics in what is increasingly believed to be an ‘age of emotion’. In this article, we argue that we can learn from the ways that historians have approached the study of emotions and everyday politics to help …
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