Steven Howe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4449641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Howe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Howe |
| SIGNATURE | HOWE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0975-1284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
For a Justice-to-Come: Milo Rau’s Utopian Realism
One of the most prolific political theatre makers in Europe today, Milo Rau is known for his commitment to a realist art of possibility—a “Möglichkeitsrealismus,” as he defines it, devoted to opening space for envisioning possible alternatives to the status quo. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s writings on utopia, this article argues for an understanding of Rau’s artistic practice as a kind of “concrete utopianism” that materially engages the world so as…
Killing in Cork and the Historians
Irish History’s ‘revisionist’ controversy, which raged from the 1970s until the 1990s, has generally been thought exhausted and ended. Yet it continues to be fought in relation to Ireland’s ‘war of independence’ and especially to events in County Cork during that era. Much of the contention focuses on the role of sectarianism in that conflict, and on the work of the late Peter Hart. There have been several sharp recent critiques of Hart’s methods…
Basil Davidson (1914-2010)
Basil Davidson, who died on 9 July 2010 aged ninety-five, was a man of multiple talents and multiple lives. He was a soldier and a secret agent, a novelist and a journalist, a political organizer, agitator and commentator. He was even, for a brief time after he left school aged sixteen, a bill-sticker posting advertisements for tropical fruit. But he was perhaps above all – certainly for longest, for lasting international impact, and not least fo…
Des Vaterlandes grauses Sinnbild’: Legitimacy, Performance and Terror in Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht
This essay offers a new angle on Kleist's patriotic drama Die Herrmannsschlacht by re‐evaluating the text's political stakes in relation to the history of the French Revolution and the new‐found awareness of the performative functions of language and imagery that emerged in the revolutionary context. Focusing on the connections between liberty, performance and identity‐formation, a significant parallel is established to the model of nationhood ou…
Some Intellectual Origins of Charter 88
Charter 88 was not (despite some hostile critics' claims) a movement mainly founded on abstract ideas, nor one specifically of, by or for intellectuals. Yet it had a very diverse set of intellectual roots and influences, drawing on many currents of thought ranging from global developments in democratic political theory, through essays in rethinking the histories of Britishness, to specifically Scottish and Welsh intellectual innovations—as well a…
Can Community Change Be Measured for an Outcomes‐Based Initiative? A Comparative Case Study of the Success by 6® Initiative
One of the challenges facing nonprofit organizations today is the demand for measurable results. Increasingly, these organizations are focusing less on program outputs and program outcomes in favor of community outcomes or changes demonstrated in the larger community. Success by 6® is a popular United Way initiative that emphasizes defining and measuring community outcomes. In this paper, we describe our work with 24 Success by 6® initiatives aro…
Internal Decolonization? British Politics since Thatcher as Post-colonial Trauma
In recent years a growing number of commentators, especially ones associated with the idea of a ‘new imperial history’, have argued that British politics and culture remained more heavily shaped by colonialism and decolonization than had previously conventionally been thought. This paper pursues that line of thought in relation to political debates during and since the 1980s, especially those concerning devolution, constitutional reform, and race…
Internal Decolonization? British Politics since Thatcher as Post-colonial Trauma
In recent years a growing number of commentators, especially ones associated with the idea of a ‘new imperial history’, have argued that British politics and culture remained more heavily shaped by colonialism and decolonization than had previously conventionally been thought. This paper pursues that line of thought in relation to political debates during and since the 1980s, especially those concerning devolution, constitutional reform, and race…
Killing in Cork and the Historians
Irish History’s ‘revisionist’ controversy, which raged from the 1970s until the 1990s, has generally been thought exhausted and ended. Yet it continues to be fought in relation to Ireland’s ‘war of independence’ and especially to events in County Cork during that era. Much of the contention focuses on the role of sectarianism in that conflict, and on the work of the late Peter Hart. There have been several sharp recent critiques of Hart’s methods…
Some Intellectual Origins of Charter 88
Charter 88 was not (despite some hostile critics' claims) a movement mainly founded on abstract ideas, nor one specifically of, by or for intellectuals. Yet it had a very diverse set of intellectual roots and influences, drawing on many currents of thought ranging from global developments in democratic political theory, through essays in rethinking the histories of Britishness, to specifically Scottish and Welsh intellectual innovations—as well a…
Can Community Change Be Measured for an Outcomes‐Based Initiative? A Comparative Case Study of the Success by 6® Initiative
One of the challenges facing nonprofit organizations today is the demand for measurable results. Increasingly, these organizations are focusing less on program outputs and program outcomes in favor of community outcomes or changes demonstrated in the larger community. Success by 6® is a popular United Way initiative that emphasizes defining and measuring community outcomes. In this paper, we describe our work with 24 Success by 6® initiatives aro…
Internal Decolonization? British Politics since Thatcher as Post-colonial Trauma
In recent years a growing number of commentators, especially ones associated with the idea of a ‘new imperial history’, have argued that British politics and culture remained more heavily shaped by colonialism and decolonization than had previously conventionally been thought. This paper pursues that line of thought in relation to political debates during and since the 1980s, especially those concerning devolution, constitutional reform, and race…
Can Community Change Be Measured for an Outcomes‐Based Initiative? A Comparative Case Study of the Success by 6® Initiative
One of the challenges facing nonprofit organizations today is the demand for measurable results. Increasingly, these organizations are focusing less on program outputs and program outcomes in favor of community outcomes or changes demonstrated in the larger community. Success by 6® is a popular United Way initiative that emphasizes defining and measuring community outcomes. In this paper, we describe our work with 24 Success by 6® initiatives aro…
Some Intellectual Origins of Charter 88
Charter 88 was not (despite some hostile critics' claims) a movement mainly founded on abstract ideas, nor one specifically of, by or for intellectuals. Yet it had a very diverse set of intellectual roots and influences, drawing on many currents of thought ranging from global developments in democratic political theory, through essays in rethinking the histories of Britishness, to specifically Scottish and Welsh intellectual innovations—as well a…
Des Vaterlandes grauses Sinnbild’: Legitimacy, Performance and Terror in Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht
This essay offers a new angle on Kleist's patriotic drama Die Herrmannsschlacht by re‐evaluating the text's political stakes in relation to the history of the French Revolution and the new‐found awareness of the performative functions of language and imagery that emerged in the revolutionary context. Focusing on the connections between liberty, performance and identity‐formation, a significant parallel is established to the model of nationhood ou…
Basil Davidson (1914-2010)
Basil Davidson, who died on 9 July 2010 aged ninety-five, was a man of multiple talents and multiple lives. He was a soldier and a secret agent, a novelist and a journalist, a political organizer, agitator and commentator. He was even, for a brief time after he left school aged sixteen, a bill-sticker posting advertisements for tropical fruit. But he was perhaps above all – certainly for longest, for lasting international impact, and not least fo…
Killing in Cork and the Historians
Irish History’s ‘revisionist’ controversy, which raged from the 1970s until the 1990s, has generally been thought exhausted and ended. Yet it continues to be fought in relation to Ireland’s ‘war of independence’ and especially to events in County Cork during that era. Much of the contention focuses on the role of sectarianism in that conflict, and on the work of the late Peter Hart. There have been several sharp recent critiques of Hart’s methods…
For a Justice-to-Come: Milo Rau’s Utopian Realism
One of the most prolific political theatre makers in Europe today, Milo Rau is known for his commitment to a realist art of possibility—a “Möglichkeitsrealismus,” as he defines it, devoted to opening space for envisioning possible alternatives to the status quo. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s writings on utopia, this article argues for an understanding of Rau’s artistic practice as a kind of “concrete utopianism” that materially engages the world so as…
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