Jonathan Joseph
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3673786 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jonathan Joseph |
| PRENOMES | Jonathan |
| SOBRENOME | Joseph |
| ASSINATURA | JOSEPH J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4578-211X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Walking With Words
This reflective paper is written by a multi-stakeholder key advisory set (KAS) team consisting of university academics, engagement staff, and community-based practitioners from an Indigenous group called the Gamtouers, in South Africa. It critically examines the pre-project finalisation stage of a National Research Grant initiative, aligned with the New Frontiers in Research Fund multilateral project. During this stage, the KAS team engaged schoo…
Book symposium
Editor’s note: Roy Bhaskar’s first book, A Realist Theory of Science (RTS), which laid the conceptual foundations for what later came to be called critical realism, was published first in 1975. Th
A Response to Heikki Patomäki
Heikki Patomäki (2025) sets out three aims in his critique of the patrimonial imperialism piece by Pierzynski and Joseph (2025), published in this journal. The first is that the patrimonial imperialism argument assumes a traditional International Relations (IR) framework of ‘levels of analysis’ which is subsequently critiqued. The second criticism relates to the manner in which critical realism is deployed, specifically its use of the notions of …
Authoritarianism, Governmentality and the Covid-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic raises important questions about biopolitics and governmentality, not least, what are the limitations of governing through not governing too much? Important questions concern the role of the state, citizenship, privacy, and concerns about populist movements and personal freedom. The pandemic challenges the idea that liberal government is the most effective way to care for populations while raising the spectre of an underlyin…
Patrimonial Imperialism
Explanations of the causes of the Russo‐Ukrainian war tend to drift towards one of two lines of argument. These are the ‘NATO expansion’ argument, chiefly focusing on the structure of the international system and the possibility of the acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, and the ‘Putin's war’ argument, which attempts to place the bulk of blame for the war on the actions and agency of Putin himself. Both arguments might better be considered as focuse…
The Traps and Pitfalls of Anticipatory Governance - Comparative Cases of South Korea and the United Kingdom
Conceptual politics and resilience-at-work in the European Union
International crises, most recently the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, often radically change our view of the world and our place within it. The European Union (EU) has been particularly impacted by these developments because these crises have accentuated some of its ontological and epistemological uncertainties and insecurities. While the EU’s resilience turn initiated by the EU Global Strategy of 2016 aimed at strengthening…
Reducing Inequality and Improving Efficacy in the Medical School Application Process Through a Free Medical Student Consulting Service
Purpose: The medical school application process is one of the most daunting obstacles that premedical students must overcome and can often act as an inequitable barrier for many of these students. Recent years have shown a disproportionate increase in the number of applications sent to medical schools compared to the number of available seats.1,2 As the pool of potential applicants increases, so too does the competition for those seats in every m…
Rescuing the liberal international order
This article reflects on how European Union (EU) narratives of the crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) have reshaped its resilience approach and its foreign and security policy more broadly. Drawing on qualitative textual analysis, we trace the evolution of the EU's resilience approach over time and the way it has been shaped by crisis narratives. While the idea of resilience was introduced in EU foreign policy to foster the resilienc…
Resilient Peace
This introduction provides a conceptual and theoretical background to the more detailed analyses contained in the articles of the Special Section. The introduction firstly presents a critical overview of the rise of resilience and its increasing role in shaping the terms of international interventions. It identifies a set of interrelated conceptual themes relevant to theorising the relationship between resilience and peacebuilding and evaluates h…
A promise not fulfilled
The article provides a critical overview of the rise of resilience at the European Union (EU) level and to what extent its adoption is reshaping the terms of the EU’s peacebuilding interventions. It argues that resilience offers a four-fold contribution to promoting sustainable peace: (1) a focus on complexity; (2) a systems approach; (3) a shift toward local capacities; and (4) an emphasis on human agency. The article then applies this framework…
Understanding populist politics in Turkey
The aim of this article is to understand populism as a hegemonic project involving a struggle for power between different social forces. We take a critical realist approach in defining populism. This implies several things. We develop a new approach to understanding populist politics by taking neither a purely discursive (Laclau), nor a solely structural (Poulantzas), but a critical realist approach and analysing the three-way relationship betwee…
Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn
This article looks at the development of the resilience approach in EU foreign policy. Building state and societal resilience in the EU's neighbourhood has been identified as one of the key priorities in the EU global strategy. Here we critically analyse these developments and seek to provide an account of the complex dynamics within which the EU's approach to resilience is located. We argue that EU resilience‐thinking is influenced by three broa…
Wellbeing, Resilience and Sustainability
Varieties of Resilience
Resilience refers to the ability of individuals, groups and societies to withstand and recover from external shocks. This pioneering book-length comparative study examines resilience as it is experienced across different countries, such as the UK, US, France, Germany and EU. Furthermore it considers cases from policy sectors including national security, counterterrorism, civil protection, disaster risk reduction, critical infrastructure protectio…
Beyond Relationalism in Peacebuilding
This conclusion notes the rise of relationalism in theorizing peacebuilding and the advantages of this approach as evident in the contributions to this special issue. Nevertheless, it cautions against such a move and in particular, some of the ontological and epistemological consequences of the relational turn as evident in recent poststructuralism, postcolonial approaches and practice theory. It contrasts this with the critical realist approach …
Hegemony
The concept of hegemony dates back to Ancient Greece and China, but is most associated with realist debates in international relations and Gramsci's approach to social rule. In the realist account hegemony usually refers to the dominant state in the international system and significant debates concern whether the international system needs a hegemon. In Gramsci hegemony refers to the way that the dominant group relies on both coercion and consent…
The limits of practice
This paper argues that the current calls for a practice turn in International Relations (IR) while positive in many respects, are problematic and potentially limiting because they are premised on a confused understanding of the role of philosophy and realist philosophy in particular and a restricted view of the role of sociological investigation. This arises from the problematic tendency to lapse into advocacy of an anti-realist philosophical and…
Social Morphogenisis; Late Modernity
Governing through Failure and Denial
This article sets out a new way of understanding how resilience works as a form of governmentality with specific focus on international interventions. It argues that resilience governs though failure and denial, suggesting that it builds on both failures to govern complex systems and past failures of intervention, in order to promote a new governance through denial that further shifts responsibility onto the governed. It suggests that resilience,…
Decoupling local ownership? The lost opportunities for grassroots women’s involvement in Liberian peacebuilding
Civil society organizations and grassroots groups are often unable to play an active role in post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A possible explanation for the observed challenges in peacebuilding is the gap or decoupling between international expectations and norms from practical action, local norms and capacities. External actors are often overly instrumental and operate according to a general template that fails to start from what …
European integration in crisis? Of supranational integration, hegemonic projects and domestic politics
The European Union is facing multiple challenges. Departing from mainstream theory, this article adopts a fresh approach to understanding integration. It does so by taking two theoretical steps. The first introduces the structure–agency debate in order to make explicit the relationship between macro-structures, the institutional arrangements at European Union level and agency. The second proposes that the state of integration should be understood…
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013
Andrey Makarychev, Russian Identities and the Idea of International Society 20 Years after the Fall of the USSR
In the paper the author analyzes different Russian international identities of the post-Soviet period. Stressing that the Russian identity discourse cannot be simply reduced to the Soviet one, the paper emphasizes the plurality of Russia’s identity discourses. At the same time the menu of Russian foreign policy identities to a large extent depends upon a variety of international structures in which Russia may imagine to engage with. The paper sug…
Beyond Flows, Fluids and Networks
In this paper we critically explore some of the arguments made by those social theorists who claim that we live in a new global economy defined by informational and technological flows, fluids and networks. By recourse to Marx's concept of fetishism we argue that these theorists often fetishise the very social changes in the global economy they are trying to describe. As a result, they articulate a ‘flat ontology’ of concrete and contingent relat…
Governing through Failure and Denial
This article sets out a new way of understanding how resilience works as a form of governmentality with specific focus on international interventions. It argues that resilience governs though failure and denial, suggesting that it builds on both failures to govern complex systems and past failures of intervention, in order to promote a new governance through denial that further shifts responsibility onto the governed. It suggests that resilience,…
The limits of governmentality
Foucault’s concept of governmentality goes beyond the narrow limits of state power to look at how these societies employ more subtle methods of power exercised through a network of institutions, practices, procedures and techniques which act to regulate social conduct. This approach is now gaining influence in International Relations and this piece reflects on this emerging field and tries to steer the debate in a certain direction. It is concern…
Resilience as an Emergent European Project? The EU's Place in the Resilience Turn
This article looks at the development of the resilience approach in EU foreign policy. Building state and societal resilience in the EU's neighbourhood has been identified as one of the key priorities in the EU global strategy. Here we critically analyse these developments and seek to provide an account of the complex dynamics within which the EU's approach to resilience is located. We argue that EU resilience‐thinking is influenced by three broa…
Philosophy in International Relations
How Does Scientific Realism Relate to International Relations?The first question that most people interested in this forum will want to ask is; can we develop a specifically scientific realist school of IR?To get any disappointment out of the way so that we can move on to alternative questions, the short answer is no.Scientific realism is not a theory.In the main, I will draw on Marxism for my theoretical examples, while employing scientific real…
Foucault and reality
Introduction This article looks at Foucault from the standpoint of realist philosophy, in particular the critical realism developed by Roy Bhaskar and others. So far little has been said on this possible connection, although this article examines some of the claims made by Richard Marsden in his recent book, The Nature of Capital. The opening sections concentrate on epistemological issues and in particular the criticisms made of Foucault's concep…
European integration in crisis? Of supranational integration, hegemonic projects and domestic politics
The European Union is facing multiple challenges. Departing from mainstream theory, this article adopts a fresh approach to understanding integration. It does so by taking two theoretical steps. The first introduces the structure–agency debate in order to make explicit the relationship between macro-structures, the institutional arrangements at European Union level and agency. The second proposes that the state of integration should be understood…
Resilience in UK and French Security Strategy
The idea of resilience is increasingly prominent across a wide range of policy areas. This contribution looks at the emergence of resilience in UK security discourse and compares this with the situation in France. It argues that although the term is being debated in France, it is considered to be an Anglo-Saxon import. This article suggests that use of the idea of resilience has more to do with particular forms of governance than with security. I…
Governmentality of What? Populations, States and International Organisations
As more work on governmentality appears in International Relations (IR), it is time to take stock and deal with a few questions. In social theory, the governmentality approach has mainly addressed “advanced liberal” societies and can be defined as having the health, wealth and well-being of populations as its target and governance from a distance through the “conduct of conduct” as its means of operating. There are two major problems in transferr…
A Realist Theory of Hegemony
A new approach to understanding hegemony is developed based on the method of critical realism. Breaking from the traditional interpretations that emphasise inter‐subjective, superstructural and cultural aspects of hegemony, this article looks at hegemony's structural context and the conditions for its possibility. A realist conception of hegemony relates hegemonic projects to structural reproduction and transformation via Bhaskar’s transformation…
The EU in the Horn of Africa
The EU has recently got involved in resilience building. This article concentrates on the SHARE project relating to resilience building in the Horn of Africa. It suggests that resilience is best understood as part of a particular approach to governance. By employing the concept of governmentality it is suggested that the resilience project is part of a broader strategy that seeks to govern from a distance. It is argued that this is consistent wit…
Resilient Peace
This introduction provides a conceptual and theoretical background to the more detailed analyses contained in the articles of the Special Section. The introduction firstly presents a critical overview of the rise of resilience and its increasing role in shaping the terms of international interventions. It identifies a set of interrelated conceptual themes relevant to theorising the relationship between resilience and peacebuilding and evaluates h…
Poverty Reduction and the New Global Governmentality
Are international organizations using the issue of poverty reduction as a new way to approach global governmentality? This article recognizes that serious problems are involved in so approaching the idea of global governmentality, given the lack of success these strategies have. It is suggested here that such strategies operate not to improve the condition of populations but as a means for regulating states and their governments. Once states, not…
A promise not fulfilled
The article provides a critical overview of the rise of resilience at the European Union (EU) level and to what extent its adoption is reshaping the terms of the EU’s peacebuilding interventions. It argues that resilience offers a four-fold contribution to promoting sustainable peace: (1) a focus on complexity; (2) a systems approach; (3) a shift toward local capacities; and (4) an emphasis on human agency. The article then applies this framework…
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
The authors examine the relationship between social science and philosophy and ask what sort of work social science and an accompanying philosophy should do. They reintroduce the question of ontology
Hegemony and the structure-agency problem in International Relations
This article argues for a concept of hegemony that goes beyond current usages in IR to examine its more structural aspect. First, it looks at this more structural aspect in relation to some of Gramsci’s own arguments. Then it adds hegemony to the structure-agency debate. It develops the concept of hegemony in two ways – first as a mediating moment between structure and agency, second as a factor in securing the unity of structural combinations. T…
Beyond Relationalism in Peacebuilding
This conclusion notes the rise of relationalism in theorizing peacebuilding and the advantages of this approach as evident in the contributions to this special issue. Nevertheless, it cautions against such a move and in particular, some of the ontological and epistemological consequences of the relational turn as evident in recent poststructuralism, postcolonial approaches and practice theory. It contrasts this with the critical realist approach …
Decoupling local ownership? The lost opportunities for grassroots women’s involvement in Liberian peacebuilding
Civil society organizations and grassroots groups are often unable to play an active role in post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. A possible explanation for the observed challenges in peacebuilding is the gap or decoupling between international expectations and norms from practical action, local norms and capacities. External actors are often overly instrumental and operate according to a general template that fails to start from what …
What Can Governmentality Do for IR
Journal Article What Can Governmentality Do for IR? Get access Jonathan Joseph Jonathan Joseph University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 202–205, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2010.00100_4.x Published: 07 June 2010
The limits of practice
This paper argues that the current calls for a practice turn in International Relations (IR) while positive in many respects, are problematic and potentially limiting because they are premised on a confused understanding of the role of philosophy and realist philosophy in particular and a restricted view of the role of sociological investigation. This arises from the problematic tendency to lapse into advocacy of an anti-realist philosophical and…
Ghostly Demarcations
Beyond Flows, Fluids and Networks
In this paper we critically explore some of the arguments made by those social theorists who claim that we live in a new global economy defined by informational and technological flows, fluids and networks. By recourse to Marx's concept of fetishism we argue that these theorists often fetishise the very social changes in the global economy they are trying to describe. As a result, they articulate a ‘flat ontology’ of concrete and contingent relat…
In Defence of Critical Realism
This article reassesses critical realism's role as an underlabourer to the sciences and whether it is of any use to a Marxist analysis. It deals with some of the issues raised in the debate between regulation theorists and open Marxists whilst arguing that this debate does not do full credit to the scope of critical realism. Whilst a rejection of the regulation approach is necessary, it is also necessary to analyse forms of regulation and hegemon…
Rescuing the liberal international order
This article reflects on how European Union (EU) narratives of the crisis of the liberal international order (LIO) have reshaped its resilience approach and its foreign and security policy more broadly. Drawing on qualitative textual analysis, we trace the evolution of the EU's resilience approach over time and the way it has been shaped by crisis narratives. While the idea of resilience was introduced in EU foreign policy to foster the resilienc…
Understanding populist politics in Turkey
The aim of this article is to understand populism as a hegemonic project involving a struggle for power between different social forces. We take a critical realist approach in defining populism. This implies several things. We develop a new approach to understanding populist politics by taking neither a purely discursive (Laclau), nor a solely structural (Poulantzas), but a critical realist approach and analysing the three-way relationship betwee…
Authoritarianism, Governmentality and the Covid-19 Response
The COVID-19 pandemic raises important questions about biopolitics and governmentality, not least, what are the limitations of governing through not governing too much? Important questions concern the role of the state, citizenship, privacy, and concerns about populist movements and personal freedom. The pandemic challenges the idea that liberal government is the most effective way to care for populations while raising the spectre of an underlyin…
Realistic Organisation
These are difficult times for the Marxist Left and many tough questions are being asked. Unfortunately two extremes often come to the fore. One position takes an ultra-revisionist course, questioning the very foundations of Marxism. Another takes a profoundly dogmatic approach, defending orthodoxy in knee-jerk fashion
In Defence of Critical Realism
This article reassesses critical realism's role as an underlabourer to the sciences and whether it is of any use to a Marxist analysis. It deals with some of the issues raised in the debate between regulation theorists and open Marxists whilst arguing that this debate does not do full credit to the scope of critical realism. Whilst a rejection of the regulation approach is necessary, it is also necessary to analyse forms of regulation and hegemon…
Ghostly Demarcations
The Structure of the Social
This article seeks to develop the Marxist conception of social structure by incorporating developments within critical realist philosophy. It rejects forms of economic determinism such as the base-superstructure model and those reconstructions—like Cohen’s—that attribute primacy to productive forces in explaining history and society. It argues instead that society is the product of complex, often contradictory combinations of many different struc…
A Realist Theory of Hegemony
A new approach to understanding hegemony is developed based on the method of critical realism. Breaking from the traditional interpretations that emphasise inter‐subjective, superstructural and cultural aspects of hegemony, this article looks at hegemony's structural context and the conditions for its possibility. A realist conception of hegemony relates hegemonic projects to structural reproduction and transformation via Bhaskar’s transformation…
Critical Realism
Critical Realism
The Erosion of Party Politics in Britain
This article looks at the erosion of democratic practice enacted by "New" Labour in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair. Building on the internal reforms of the 1980s, the process of Labour Party "modernization" has created an exclusive, top-down managerial style of leadership. This type of party leadership and management has far-reaching implications for British politics more generally, not least the role of political parties. The current…
Hegemony in the Fourth Dimension
Derrida's spectres of ideology
The recent work of Derrida allows for the possibility of revisiting the concept of ideology and reopens the dialogue between deconstruction and Marxism. By reading this work in a particular way Derrida's discussion of spectrality can be linked to the notion of ideology, but we must also distinguish between different types of spectre. In particular, we should distinguish between the negative spectrality of the system (most clearly described by Der…
Hegemony
Hegemony: A Realist Analysis is a new and original approach to this important concept. It presents a theoretical history of the use of hegemony in a range of work starting with a discussion of Gramsci and Russian Marxism and going on to look at more recent applications. It examines the current debates and discusses the new direction to Marx made by Jacques Derrida, before outlining a critical realist/Marxist alternative.This book employs critical…
Re-Stating Hegemonic Theory
Social Theory
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617920);This textbook introduction to Social Theory is unique in addressing key issues in sociological, political and cultural analysis through an examination of modern theories of social conflict, cohesion and consent. Chapters are structured to cover the major thinkers - Marx and Engels, Gramsci, Durkheim, Parsons, Weber, the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse and Habermas) and Foucault - and…
Realism Discourse and Deconstruction
1. Introduction: Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction Jonathan Joseph and John Michael Roberts Part One: Realism and Critical Discourse Analysis 2. Critical Realism and Semiosis Norman Fairclough, Bob Jessop and Andrew Sayer 3. Critical Realism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Concrete Research Martin Jones 4. How Might the Inclusion of Discursive Approaches Enrich Critical Realist Analysis? The Case of Environmentalism Jenneth Parker Part Two: Vol…
Foucault and reality
Introduction This article looks at Foucault from the standpoint of realist philosophy, in particular the critical realism developed by Roy Bhaskar and others. So far little has been said on this possible connection, although this article examines some of the claims made by Richard Marsden in his recent book, The Nature of Capital. The opening sections concentrate on epistemological issues and in particular the criticisms made of Foucault's concep…
Social Theory
Covering a wide area of political sociology and social and political theory, this Reader offers a selection of extracts incorporating both primary and secondary readings. As well as a general introduction to the concept of social theory, each section is prefaced by an introduction to the relevant theorist(s) and each reading is accompanied by a short explanatory introduction. Including a broad range of texts, the book offers a general introductio…
Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy. Edited by John Rundell, Danielle Petherbridge, Jan Bryant, John Hewitt and Jeremy Smith
Kant After Derrida, edited by Philip Rothfield. Manchester
Realism, Marxism and Method
The contemporary social sciences are in a state of theoretical fragmentation. A dizzying array of approaches jostle for attention, each making grander and often increasingly radical claims about the nature of human life and the best method of studying it. The roots of this fragmentation lie in the 1960s, when a deeply held sense of dissatisfaction with mainstream social theory led to the search for alternatives to the positivism that had come to …
Beyond The Regulation Approach
(2006). Beyond The Regulation Approach: Putting Capitalist Economies in Their Place. By Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 417-426
Globalization and Governmentality
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
The authors examine the relationship between social science and philosophy and ask what sort of work social science and an accompanying philosophy should do. They reintroduce the question of ontology
Philosophy in International Relations
How Does Scientific Realism Relate to International Relations?The first question that most people interested in this forum will want to ask is; can we develop a specifically scientific realist school of IR?To get any disappointment out of the way so that we can move on to alternative questions, the short answer is no.Scientific realism is not a theory.In the main, I will draw on Marxism for my theoretical examples, while employing scientific real…
Hegemony and the structure-agency problem in International Relations
This article argues for a concept of hegemony that goes beyond current usages in IR to examine its more structural aspect. First, it looks at this more structural aspect in relation to some of Gramsci’s own arguments. Then it adds hegemony to the structure-agency debate. It develops the concept of hegemony in two ways – first as a mediating moment between structure and agency, second as a factor in securing the unity of structural combinations. T…
Governmentality of What? Populations, States and International Organisations
As more work on governmentality appears in International Relations (IR), it is time to take stock and deal with a few questions. In social theory, the governmentality approach has mainly addressed “advanced liberal” societies and can be defined as having the health, wealth and well-being of populations as its target and governance from a distance through the “conduct of conduct” as its means of operating. There are two major problems in transferr…
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