Saul Newman BA, Hons, PhD
Address:
Warmington Tower Room: 613
Office hours:
Monday 14:00-16:00
Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Newman
Interview with Saul Newman: http://community.livejournal.com/siyahi/
Saul Newman's personal homepage: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/saulnewman/
I want change: http://www.luuonline.com/iwantchange.php
Talk by Saul Newman on Postanarchism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZn5uvd1-8
Biographical information
I joined the Department in 2006. Before this I taught and conducted postdoctoral research at a number of institutions in Australia (since 1997), including: University of Western Australia, Curtin University and Macquarie University.
Areas of supervision
My general area of research expertise and supervision experience is in contemporary political and social theory, particularly from the Continental tradition, as well as radical political thought and critical IR theory. I welcome MA and PhD applications in any of these areas. I am currently supervising five PhDs in the following areas: piracy, biopolitics and security; Alain Badiou’s Marxism; anarchism, squatting and radical theories of property; ecological theory and the politics of catastrophe; and postanarchism and the ‘Greek December’.
Research interests
My research interests are in contemporary political and social theory; Continental thought; radical politics and critical IR theory. I have published extensively on postanarchist theory, radical politics in the time of globalisation, terrorism and the politics of securitization, human rights, new theories of power and the politics of autonomy. I have also written widely on Max Stirner, recently completing the first ever edited book on his work in the English language. My current research engages with anarchism as a critical approach to IR, as well as with human rights and questions of statelessness and borders.
Selected publications
Books:
Saul Newman, ed., Max Stirner (Critical Encounters in Contemporary Thought), Palgrave Macmillan 2011.
Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights: Statelessness, Images, Violence (co-authored with John Lechte) (Edinburgh University Press), forthcoming 2012.
The Politics of Postanarchism, (Edinburgh University Press), 2010.
Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the War on Terror (co-authored with Michael Levine and Damian Cox) (Palgrave Macmillan) 2008.
Unstable Universalities: Poststructuralism and Radical Politics, (Manchester University Press), 2007.
Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political (Routledge), 2005.
From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power (Lanham, M.D.: Lexington Books), 2001(2nd edition 2007; Turkish translation 2006).
Chapters in edited books:
2012: (forthcoming): ‘Stirner’s Ethics of Voluntary Inservitude’, Max Stirner (Critical Explorations in Contemporary Thought series), ed., Saul Newman, (Palgrave Macmillan).
2011: ‘Post-Anarchism and Radical Politics Today’, Post-Anarchism: A Reader, ed., Duane Rousselle and Sureyyya Evren (Pluto Press).
2011: ‘Research Methods and Problems: Postanarchism’, Continuum Companion to Anarchism, ed., Ruth Kinna, Continuum (forthcoming)
2010: ‘Terror, Sovereignty and Law: On the Politics of Violence’, Transnational Law: Scholarship from the Frontier, eds., Russell Miller and Peer Zumbansen, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
2010: ‘Anarchism, Utopia and the Future of Radical Politics’, Anarchism and Utopianism, ed., Ruth Kinna and Laurence Davis, Manchester University Press.
2009: ‘Anarchism’, What is Radical Politics Today?, ed., Jonathan Pugh, Palgrave Macmillan.
2009: ‘Politics in the Age of Control’, Deleuze and New Technology, ed., David Savat and Mark Poster, Edinburgh University Press.
2009: ‘Imprisoning Politics: The Logic of Security and the Undermining of Democracy’, The Impact of 9/11 on Politics and War: The Day that Changed Everything?, ed., Matt Morgan, Palgrave Macmillan.
2007: ‘Terrible Terror: Security, Violence and Democracy in the “War on Terrorism”’ (with Michael Levine), Interrogating the War on Terror ed., Deborah Staines, Cambridge Scholars Press.
2006: ‘Does Power Have a Place? Hegemony, Antagonism and Radical Politics’, Hegemony and Power: Consensus and Coercion in Contemporary Politics, ed., Mark Haugaard and Howard Lentner, Lexington Books.
2005: ‘Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment’, I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite: Nietzsche and Anarchism, ed., John Moore, Autonomedia.
Edited journals:
2010: Journal of Political Ideologies Special Issue on ‘The Libertarian Impulse’
2008: Anarchist Studies Special Issue on ‘Postanarchism’, Vol.16, No. 2.
Refereed journal articles:
2011 (forthcoming): ‘Crowned Anarchy: Postanarchism and International Relations’, Millennium Journal of International Studies.
2011: (forthcoming) ‘Postanarchism and Space: revolutionary fantasies and autonomous zones’, Planning Theory.
2010: ‘The Horizon of Anarchy: Anarchism and contemporary radical thought’, Theory & Event, 13: 2
2010: ‘Postanarchism and Power’, Journal of Power, 3:2.
2008: ‘Connolly’s Democratic Pluralism and the Question of State Sovereignty’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 10, No.2
2007: ‘Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics’, SubStance #13 Vol. 36/2.
2006: ‘War, Politics, Race: Reflections on Violence in the ‘War on Terror’ (with Michael Levine), Theoria, 110 (August)
2006: ‘Sacred Cows and The Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism: Cranking it Up a Notch’ (with Michael Levine) International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 10/4.
2004: ‘The Place of Power in Political Discourse’, International Political Science Review Vol. 25/2.
2004: ‘New Reflections on the Theory of Power: a Lacanian Perspective’, Contemporary Political Theory Vol. 3/2.
2004: ‘Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State’, Anarchist Studies. Vol. 12/1.
2004: ‘Interrogating the Master: Lacan and Radical Politics’, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Vol. 9.
2004: ‘Terror, Sovereignty and Law: On the Politics of Violence.’ German Law Journal 5/5
2003: ‘Stirner and Foucault: Towards a Post-Kantian Freedom, Postmodern Culture Vol. 13/2.
2003: ‘Spectres of the Uncanny: the ‘return of the repressed’ in politics,’ Telos 124 Summer 2002.
2003: ‘Empiricism, Pluralism and Politics in Stirner and Deleuze’, Idealistic Studies Vol. 33/1.
2002: ‘Max Stirner and the Politics of Post-Humanism’, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 1/2.
2002: ‘Politics of the Ego: Stirner’s Critique of Liberalism’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 5/3 (Autumn).
2001: ‘Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority’, Philosophy and Social Criticism,Vol. 27/3.
2001: 'For Collective Social Action: Towards a Postmodern Theory of Collective Identity', Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 27/1.
2001: ‘War on the State: Deleuze and Stirner’s Anarchism’, Anarchist Studies, Vol. 9/2.
2001: ‘Foucault and the Limits of Power’, International Journal of Political Studies(RIEP) Vol. 3/1.
2001: ‘Spectres of Stirner: a Contemporary Critique of Ideology’, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 6/3.
2000: ‘Universalism/Particularism: Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality’, New Formations, 41.
2000: ‘Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment’, Theory and Event, Vol. 4.3.
Teaching
I teach Level 1 'Ideas, Ideologies, Conflict'; Level 2 'Modern Political Theory'; Level 3 'Discourse, Power, Politics'; and MA 'Continental Political Theory