About Me

Jason Edwards

ABOUT

I am a Lecturer in Politics and Birkbeck, University of London, where I teach and research about political theory, food, and politics. Below is a list of my academic and other publications.

Books

Colas, A., Edwards, J., Levi, J. and Zubaida, S. (2018) Food, Politics, and Society: Social Theory and the Modern Food System (Oakland, CA: University of California Press), 278 pages.

Edwards, J. (ed.) (2012) Retrieving the Big Society (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell), 187 pages.

Edwards, J. (2007) The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory (London: Palgrave Macmillan), 208 pages.

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

Edwards, J. (2021) ‘Authority on the Border of Work and Play: Oakeshott and Democratic Theory’, Social Theory and Practice, forthcoming. Accepted 16.07.21 10, 500 words.

Colas, A. and J. Edwards (2019) ‘The Food Politics of Brexit: What’s on the Menu?’, special edition on food and Brexit, The Political Quarterly, 90, 4: 608-10.

Edwards, J. (2019) ‘O, The Roast Beef of Old England! Brexit and Gastronationalism’, The Political Quarterly, 90, 4: 629-36.

Edwards, J. (2013) ‘Play and Democracy: Huizinga and the Limits of Agonism’, Political Theory, 41, 1, February: 90-115.

Edwards, J. & Knight, K. (2008) ‘Paul Hirst’s Pluralism: A Response to Mark Wenman’, Political Studies 56, October: 737-741 (50% contribution).

Edwards, J. (2007) ‘The Ideological Interpellation of Individuals as Combatants: An Encounter Between Reinhart Koselleck and Michel Foucault’, Journal of Political Ideologies, 12, 1, February: 49-66.

Edwards, J. (2006) ‘Critique and Crisis Today: Koselleck, Enlightenment and the Concept of Politics’, Contemporary Political Theory, 5: 428-446.

Edwards, J. (2003) ‘Evolutionary Psychology and Politics’, Economy and Society, 32, 2, May: 280-298.

ARTICLES IN OTHER JOURNALS

Edwards, J. (2021) ‘Comment on Petra Schleiter and Thomas G. Flemng: International Best Practice and the Constitution, Democracy, and Rights Commission’, The Political Quarterly, 92, 1: 80-83.

Edwards, J. (2015) ‘“Guaranteed Rotation in Office”: A Comment’, Political Quarterly 86, 3: pp. 374-5.

Edwards, J. (1999) ‘The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism’, Imprints, 3, 2: 175-188.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Edwards, J. (2012) ‘Introduction’ in J. Edwards (ed.) Retrieving the Big Society (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell), pp. 1-8.

Edwards, J. (2012) ‘Freedom, Free Institutions, and the Big Society’ in J. Edwards (ed.) Retrieving the Big Society (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell), pp. 98-108.

Edwards, J. (2012) ‘Foucault and the Continuation of War’ in A. Plaw (ed)War, Virtual War and Security (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press), pp. 21-40.

Edwards, J. (2010) ‘The Materialism of Historical Materialism’ in D. Coole and S. Frost (eds) New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics (Durham, NC: Duke University Press), pp. 281-297.

Colas, A. & Edwards, J. (2009) ‘Democracy, the State and Capitalism Today’ in J. Pugh (ed.) What is Radical Politics? (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 247-55 (50% contribution).

Edwards, J. (2007) ‘Analytical Marxism and the Academy’ in D. Bates (ed.) Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics (London: Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 137-51.

REVIEWS

Edwards, J. (2019) Review of Gabriel Rockhill, Counter History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy, in Contemporary Political Theory, 18: 24-27.

Edwards, J. (2017) Review of Joan Cocks, On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) in Political Studies Review, 15, 2: 258-259.

Edwards, J. (2017) Review of Colin Hay and Anthony Payne (eds), Civic Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015) in Political Studies Review, 15, 2: 302-303.

Edwards, J. (2017) Review of Paul Cartledge Democracy: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) in Classical Review 67, 1 (forthcoming). 1500 words.

Edwards, J. (2017) Review of Robert M. Page, Clear Blue Water: The Conservative Party and the Welfare State since 1940 (Bristol: Policy Press, 2015) in Journal of Social Policy, 46, 1: 199-202. 1000 words.

Edwards, J. (2016) Review of John Dunn, Breaking Democracy’s Spell (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), in Political Quarterly 87, 1: pp. 108-110.

Edwards, J. (2015) Review of Raymond Geuss, A World Without Why (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), in Political Studies Review, 13, 4: p. 248.

Edwards, J. (2015) Review of Mika Okajangas, The Voice of Conscience: A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience (London: Bloomsbury, 2013), in Political Studies Review, 13, 4: p. 251.

Edwards, J. (2015) Review of Lois McNay, The Misguided Search for the Political: Social Weightlessness in Radical Democratic Theory (Cambridge: Polity) in Contemporary Political Theory, doi:10.1057/cpt.2014.56

Edwards, J. (2015) Review of Pierre Manent, Metamorphoses of the City: On the Western Dynamic (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), in Political Studies Review, 12, 3, pp. 409-410.

Edwards, J. (2014) Review of John A. Hall, The Importance of Being Civil: The Struggle for Political Decency (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013) in Political Studies Review, 12, 3: pp. 409-410.

Edwards, J. (2013) Review of John R. Parkinson, Democracy and Public Space: The Physical Sites of Democratic Performance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) in Political Studies Review, April 2013.

Edwards, J. (2013) Review of F. Vander Valk (ed.) Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory: Rethinking the Body Politic (London: Routledge, 2012) in Political Studies Review, 11, 2: p. 248.

Edwards, J. (2011) Review of Simon Choat, Marx Through Poststructuralism, Global Discourse, http://globaldiscourse.com/contents

Edwards, J. (2000) Review of L. Pantich and C. leys (eds), Necessary and Uneccesary Utopias: Socialist Register 2000 (London: Merlin Press, 2000), Socialist History 18, 2000: 118-20

Edwards, J. (2000) Review of L. D. Cooper, Rousseau and the Good Life (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999), Political Studies, vol. 48, no. 4: p. 841

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

Edwards, J. (2014), ‘Elite Theory’ in M. Gibbons, D. Coole, E. Ellis, and K. Ferguson (eds) Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) (3000 words)

Edwards, J. (2014), ‘G. D. H. Cole in M. Gibbons, D. Coole, E. Ellis, and K. Ferguson (eds) Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)(500 words)

Edwards, J. (2014), ‘Marxism’in M. Gibbons, D. Coole, E. Ellis, and K. Ferguson (eds) Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell) (6000 words)

Edwards, J. (2013) ‘Foucault’, in G. Claeys (ed.) Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (Washington: CQ Press) (750 words)

Edwards, J. (2009) ‘Postmaterialism’ in M. Bevir (ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of Political Theory, volume iii, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage) (1000 words)

MEDIA, BLOG SPOTS, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Live interview on anti-vaccine protests for Talk Radio, the Ian Collins Show, July 26th 2021.

‘The Missed Opportunity of the National Food Strategy’ (2021), Birkbeck Perspectives, http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/bbkcomments/2021/07/19/the-missed-opportunity-of-the-national-food-strategy/

‘The Rise of Johnsonism’ (2019), 10 Gower Street, https://10-gower-street.com/2019/12/13/the-rise-of-johnsonism/

Interview with O Globo! (Brazil)on the prorogation of Parliament, August 30th 2019.

‘The Impact of Populism on Modern Politics’ (2017), Birkbeck Podcasts, https://soundcloud.com/birkbeck-podcasts/the-impact-of-populism-on-modern-politics-interview-with-dr-jason-edwards

‘Populism and the Question of Political Time’ (2017), Birkbeck Perspectives, http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/bbkcomments/2017/04/24/populism-and-the-question-of-political-time/

‘Why Trump Won’ (2016), 10 Gower Street, http://10-gower-street.com/2016/11/13/why-did-trump-win/

Interview with French Radio London on the SNP and the UK election, April 28th 2015.

Editor of ‘After the Party’ series on Open Democracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/collections/after-party , 2014-15.

Interview with French think-tank, Institut de l’entreprise on the Big Society: http://www.institut-entreprise.fr/sites/default/files/docs/regards_sur_la_Big_society_web.pdf? , March 2014

Edwards, J. (2013) ‘Governing the Republican Economy’, openDemocracy

Edwards, J. (2012) ‘The Only Real Big Society is the Associative Society’, openDemocracy, November 6th 2012 http://www.opendemocracy.net/jason-edwards/taking-up-gauntlet-in-uk-only-real-big-society-is-associative-society

Edwards, J. (2012) ‘Lessons from the Big Society’, Policy Network, 26th September 2012 http://www.policy-network.net/pno_detail.aspx?ID=4260&title=Lessons-from-the-Big-Society

Edwards, J. (2012) ‘Is Britain a Christian Country? Wrong Question’, Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, Birkbeck, University of London, February 20th 2012, http://www.csbppl.com/2012/02/20/is-britain-a-christian-country/

Campbell, R. and Edwards, J. (2012) ‘Men’s Voting Behaviour: It’s a Hunter-Gatherer Thing Apparently!’, Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life, Birkbeck, University of London, January12th 2012, http://www.csbppl.com/2012/01/12/mens-voting-behaviour-its-a-hunter-gatherer-thing-apparently/ (50% contribution)

Edwards, J. (2010) ‘The New Government: A Marriage of (In)Convenience? www.bbk.ac.uk/news/archive/

Edwards, J. (2010) ‘The First Hundred Days: A Radical Coalition: www.bbk.ac.uk/news/archive

Edwards, J. (2010) ‘Left to Die?’, BBK Magazine, Autumn 2010, pp. 26-27

GET IN TOUCH

You can get in touch with me on my Birkbeck email: j.edwards@bbk.ac.uk