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Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New
Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836-1909, Hardback
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major, well-written, and closely research contribution to the study of
nineteenth century British colonialism' Geographical
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Heartfield in the news ... and on
the blogs
Diary
4 Dec,
on
Public Sector Strikes for New Geography
25 Nov,
my
review of Richard Gott and Jeremy Paxman on Empire history
1 Nov, my
Aborigines' history is reviewed as Book of the
Month in the Royal Geographical Society's magazine
27 Sept, my chapter in a
new
book about artist Tony Earnshaw (catch the
show
at Flower's East)
20 Sept,
On the
'Hands orf Our Land campaign for Sp!ked, and
Dale Farm sacrificed to Green
Belt for Jacobin
13 Sept,
in defence
of Dale Farm Gypsies, against eviction
11 August, on
Police Brutality for Jacobin's
blog, and on
the
left's fantasies of revolutionary rioting on Mute's site
10 August, on
Britain's
riots, for New Geography
29 July,
on
the Aborigines' Protection Society, for Spiked
27 July,
on
NoW phone hacking scandal, for Mute
1 July, my article
'Responsible Imperialism' in
Jacobin
10 June, book
launch, Kentish Town
June 2011, on
Governing
the Empire, for Spiked
May 2011,
my
contribution to the Intellectual Property review
2 March, my
article
on Education and the Working Class, and
another
copy
25 Feb, my
review
of Lizzie Collingham's book The Taste of War
24 Feb, on
Copyright
Wars for iNets South West
27 Jan. on
Copyright
law and the decline of private property for Mute
another
copy
7 Jan. 2011 My update on Britain's govt.
'Coalition
of the Unwilling' in New Geography
Nov. 2010,
What happened to
the End of the World?, for Jacobin's print ed.
two
articles
on development in London and the South East are in New Geography
DEBATE, 5 Oct., 6.30pm: IS LONDON
GROWING TOO FAST? James Heartfield, Terry Farrell, David Green, Peter Bishop -
at the British
Library
1 Sept, the Korean edition of Noblesse Media International put
my re-make of Marcel Marien's Certitudes du Fou in their profile of Patrick
Hughes
11 June,
'Rebelling
against the world', a review of Alex Butterworth's The World that Never
Was, for Platypus
9 June,
'Israel
and the left's temptations to anti-Semitism', in Mute
28 May,
'Freedom
is only a Flag', a review of Millar and Hanley's book on the official IRA
for Forth
25 May,
'Why the EU
will thrive on Greek Troubles', for Spiked
29 Apr.,
'Can
Cameron Close the Deal?' for New Geography
19 Apr.,
'La
Guerra Mondial como Guerra des clases'
17 Apr.,
my
obituary of LAPD's dictatorial police chief Daryl Gates
16 Apr.,
Forth carries my
article on DIRFT
13 Apr., Munira Mirza
reviews
my The Death of the Subject Explained, in the Journal of Cultural
Policy
7 Apr., my World War II article, now
on LibCom
5
Apr., my Fiji 1959 oil-strike article
copied
26
Mar.,
my
review of Ian MacEwan's Solar
10 Mar.,
on
Richard Hamilton, Waldemar Januszak and the Irish War, for
Previous entries
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WORLD WAR AS
CLASS WAR, by James Heartfield
'La
Guerra Mondial como Guerra des clases'
READ:
'The War in Europe: What Really Happened?'
'The Battle
of the Books', at
Spiked-online
GREEN CAPITALISM: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of
Abundance
by James Heartfield,
£7.50, plus £1
p&p
by Paypal
Let's Build!
Why we need five million homes in the next 10
years
is published by Audacity on 23 September
2006
£17.50, including postage, via PayPal
Articles on Let's Build
Gordon Brown's Eco Towns Con Spiked, 7 April '08
Farewell to the City a paper to the Rural Futures
Conference, published in Spiked 4 April 2006...also available
in Italian
Interdependent we stand, divided we fall,
'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of
sustainability' in Rising East online, January 2006
'Londonostalgia',
Blueprint, September 2004.
Who's afraid of the Thames Gateway?
Spiked
6 January 2006
City, suburbs and snobs
Spiked 30
November 2005
The government must stop finding reasons not to build new
homes Guardian 21 February 2005
Confusing signals in the housing debate and
New communities, same old problems, Times Educational
Supplement, 14 January 2005
All talk and no bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005
Concrete over the
Countryside, Blueprint, January 2002 |
Writer and lecturer James Heartfield is a director
of the development think-tank, audacity. He lives in north London
with his wife and two daughters
E-mail
heartfield@blueyonder.co.uk
 'Those trying to get an intellectual handle on our
dumbed-down society could start with James Heartfield's The 'Death of the
Subject' Explained' New Statesman
£15.00 by PayPal
Read
'Postmodernism and the Subject', from the Chapter One,
and Chapter 6,
'Algeria and the Defeat of French Humanism'
'This absolutely fascinating book', Raymond Tallis
'Striking and original', Terry Eagleton
Order The
'Death of the Subject' Explained
Review in Spiked-online
Read THE CREATIVITY GAP
£7.50 by Paypal
James Heartfield on the 'creative industries':
Gordon Brown at
NESTA for Mute and
Spiked;
Creative
London for Rising East Online;Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell at NESTA;
Cox Report: creative accounting for Spiked;
Quoted in
Larry Elliott's
Better design requires better Products in the
Guardian;
'Winning the European Capital of Culture bid will not re-build
Liverpool's industry' Liverpool Daily Post;
Chris
Smith's Creative Accounting for the Guardian
On
Channel 4 News, 26 Nov. 2006
Clare Short, Will Hutton, Doreen Massey, Zygmunt
Bauman, Paul Kingsnorth, James Heartfield and many more in Jon Pugh's new book.
Buy it
here. |
Sustaining
Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age,
A collection edited by James Heartfield and Ian
Abley
reviewed in the Natfhe Journal
£17.50 by PayPal
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Great Expectations
The creative industries in the New
Economy
'an excellent pamphlet by James
Heartfield' Guardian
Reviewed in the New Statesman
£7.50 by
PayPal
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Need and
Desire
in the Postmaterial Economy
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Browse
Intellectual Currents of the Twentieth Century
'Informative introductory essays on
positivism, pragmatism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, phenomenology,
existentialism, and postmodernism. Includes brief biographies and
bibliographies of key philosophers.' Wrote Britannica.com, who
listed it amongst 'The Web's Best Sites' in the category 'Philosophy :
Contemporary Ideas'. |
Papers
Europe,
Russia and the ‘non-historic peoples' a paper to the Standing Group on
International Relations, Turin, 13th September
Who is the Town and the
Countryside for?, All Planned Out: the Worldwide Impact of the TCPA,
Building Centre, 19 May 2007
Interviewing Litvinenko scholarship
and the New Cold War, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster
University, 30 January 2007
Sprawl: the end of the
town-country divide, Democracy Club, 14 November 2006
Superbia - in defence of the Suburbs, Kingston University Suburban Studies
Dayschool, September 2006
Can
creativity save the British Economy?, Design Council, 21 September
2005
Essays
Creative
London: an in-depth report on the GLA's creative industries, for Rising
East Online
China's Comprador Capitalism is Coming Home, Review
of Radical Political Economy, Vol. 37, No. 2, (2005)
Mao: the
Untold Story, by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday,
reviewed. More from
Spiked
The Battle of the
Books: Revising the History of the Second World War
Another
Copy
Zombie
anti-imperialists vs the 'Empire' Today's anti-war movement is motivated more by romanticism
than a serious critique of imperialism, Spiked, 1 September 2004.
Another
copy. In
German
'Londonostalgia',
Blueprint, September 2004. London's self-image is steeped in
nostalgia
'Branding
over the cracks', Critique 35, June 2004
HTML
version
'Capitalism and
anti-Capitalism', interventions, Vol. 5 (2), 2003
'You are not a White Woman!'- Apolosi Nawai, the Fiji
Produce Agency and the Trial of Stella Spencer in Fiji, 1915 scandal and
rebellion in colonial Fiji, in the Journal of Pacific
History, Volume 38, Number 1 / June 2003
'The economy of time', Cultural Trends
43&44
Hegel Dispirited
the reification of the Other in Kojève, DeBeauvoir and Sartre, for
Liverpool's Static arts organisation
'The Dark
Races Against the Light'- Official Reaction to the 1959 Fiji Riots Journal
of Pacific History, Volume 37, Number 1/June 01, 2002.
There is No
Masculinity Crisis in Genders Online Journal
'Algeria
and the Defeat of French Humanism', Chapter six of The 'Death of the
Subject' Explained, reproduced on 'Marxists.org'
Ulrich Beck, Brave
New World of Work
reviewed, Head and Hand, Autumn 2001
A critique of Teodor
Shanin's The
Russian Road
Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalisation of Poverty
reviewed, Review of Radical Political Economy, Spring 2001
'The Politics of
Food: Two cheers for Agri-business', Review of Radical Political
Economy, June 2000
'USA under Foreign Occupation', in Kiddrie and
Wedlock (eds) The
Tree of Liberty,
Vol.2, John Hopkins UP, 1998, p 751
Articles
'Overthrowing the father'
my review
of Bettina Aptheker's memoirs is published by Spiked.
More from Spiked.
Humanitarian interventionists dig
in In his new book Anti-Totalitarianism, Oliver Kamm
makes a shrill and inconsistent defence of the Iraq war.
From unrest to
uncertainty Angolan schoolchildren in Britain, Times Educational
Supplement, 4 March 2005. More from TES
The
government must stop finding reasons not to build new homes Guardian 21
February 2005
Confusing signals in the housing debate and
New communities,
same old problems, Times Educational Supplement, 14 January
2005
All talk and no
bricks, Spiked, 26 January 2005
Pitting parent
against parent The case against the Parental Separation Bill,
Spiked-online, 21 January 2005.
Red
Lorry hitching a lorry ride with Andrew Cross to DIRFT, Britain’s
unknown commercial capital in the heart of Middle England, Blueprint,
October 2004
People
and Places: A 2001 Census atlas of the UK on Audacity.org - more on
Audacity
Building
School Success de Rijke, Marsh and Morgan's re-modelling of Kingsdale
School, Prospect (Scotland) October 2004
'Fixing
a hole' - Is school renovation a substitute for teaching? Times
Educational Supplement, 7 May 2004
Bonfire of the
investment opportunities What were so many
contemporary artworks doing in a warehouse in Leyton? in
Spiked 28 May 2004.
Therapy Culture
reviewed
The Timid Corporation
reviewed
A
Servants'
Etiquette guide for Channel Four
Dangerous Liaisons... The history of teacher-student relations since
Socrates corrupted the youth of Athens, TES 10 January 2003
The Rise of French
Diplomacy Alternet.org, November 2002
BBC Plays Judge and
Executioner Alternet.org, July 2002
Let's Build
IntheSticks, January 2002
Nowhere near Enough
Blueprint, September 2002
Concrete over the
countryside, Blueprint, January 2002
'In Defence of Real
Rights', Revolution August 2000
Culture Vultures The
DTI's knowledge economy criticised.
'Elvis Lives in the Irish
Trade Data', a review of Denis O'Hearn's Celtic Tiger
Smacking
Parents an interview with lawyer Ruby Harrold-Claesson, on the repressive
consequences of Sweden's anti-smacking laws.
United by a common hatred Nail bombs in Brixton
and Brick Lane in The Times
The New 'Socialism of
Fools' A Critique of Environmentalism.
Smith's
task force for a spot of creative accounting Cultural economics for the
Guardian
War Crime Trials in
The Times
Chris Woodhead Affair in
The Times
Bombing
Lockerbie questioning the case against al-Megrahi.
Another
copy
Civil
liberties and the Sex Offenders' Register
Abortion: Whose Rights?
a talk for the pro-choice forum
In German
Anti-imperialistische Zombies
im Kampf gegen das Empire
Politik, die der
Korruption die Grube gräbt, fällt selbst hinein
Grüne Rhetorik macht
Ackerland platt
Der Holocaust als
Totschlagargument
Articles on the Spiked-online
website
Articles in
LM
(1992-1999)
Heartfield's other works include
'The limits of social
construction theory' in
Confrontation,
Vol II, No. I, A Moral Impasse: The End of Capitalist Triumphalism, Junius,
1996
'Marxism and social construction' in
Marxism,
Mysticism and Modern Theory, ed S Wolton, Macmillan, 1996
'Introduction' to
State
and Revolution, by VI Lenin, Junius, 1995
References to Heartfield's work in print