Alan Johnson CV

From the Edge Hill Univ. Biography (only available google cached version is available 8 Oct 2006): Alan Johnson - Profile

Academic Qualifications, Professional Affiliations etc

• BA (Hons) Politics and Modern History, MA (Econ) Political Development

Job Title

• Reader in Social Science

Current Teaching

• Leadership, Social Movements, the Holocaust

Main Research/Consultancy Interests

• Publications Director, Labour Friends of Iraq
• Democratic Leadership, democratic socialist thought and movements

Research Projects (Funders, Timing etc)

I currently have two main research interests. In 2004/5 I an using a Leverhulme Research Fellow to write a book on the Political Thought of Hal Draper. And after conducting research in

Europe using a British Academy Larger Research Grant (with Graeme Chesters) I will be writing a book, 'Organising Chaos: Leadership, Distributed Networks and the Alternative Globalisation Movement'.

Professional/Scholarly Organisations

• Political Studies Association, Marxism Specialist Group
• Editor, Historical Materialism (1998-)
• Editor, New Politics (1998-2004)
• Publications Director, Labour Friends of Iraq
• Social Movements Research Group, Edge Hill

Overseas Experience

• Centre for Socialist History, Berkeley
• New Politics Editorial Board, New York

Selected Publications (1999 onwards):

Books

• Leadership and Social Movements, co-edited with Colin Barker and Michael Lavalette (Manchester University Press, 2001). Marxism and the American Worker, editor
• (special book-length volume of Historical Materialism: critical research in Marxist theory) (Brill Academic Press, 2004). Socialism From Below: The Legacy of Hal Draper (forthcoming) I am

currently writing up the research on a sabbatical funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship Grant.

Chapters

• The Making of a Poor Peoples Movement: a study of the political leadership of Poplarism': in Michael Lavalette and Gerry Mooney (eds) Welfare and Class Struggle, (Routledge, 2000).
• 'Democratic Marxism: The Legacy of Hal Draper', in Mark Cowling and Paul Reynolds (eds.) Marxism, the Millennium and Beyond, (Macmillan, 2000).
• 'Leadership Matters', Colin Barker, Michael Johnson and Michael Lavalette in Leadership and Social Movements, (Manchester University Press, 2001).
• 'Leadership and Self-Emancipation: The case of Martin Luther King', in Leadership and Social Movements, (Manchester University Press, 2001)

Journal Articles

• 'Hal Draper: a biographical sketch', Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, Volume 4. (1999).
• 'Third Camp Socialism', in Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, Volume 5. (1999).
• 'Neither Washington Nor Moscow': The Third Camp as History and a Living Legacy', New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Volume 7, No.2, (Summer 1999).
• 'The Politics of Richard Rorty', New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Vol. 8, No. 1. (2000).
• 'Symposium: The Crisis of New Labor', New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Vol.8, No.2. (edited a symposium, contributions from Alan Johnson, Tony Benn, Hilary Wainwright, Liz Davies, Lindsey German) (2001).
• 'The Cultural Cold War; Faust not the Pied Piper', New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Vol. 8, No.3. (2001).
• 'The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg: A Response to Steve Bronner', New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Vol.8, No.4. (2002).
• 'Iraq and the Third Camp' New Politics: A Journal of Socialist Thought, Vol.9, No.3. (2003).
• 'The American worker and the absurd truth about Marxism. Editorial Introduction' in Marxism and the American Worker, editor (Brill Academic Press, Historical Materialism 11.1. 2004).
• 'Egalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements' in Marxism and the American Worker, editor (Brill Academic Press), Historical Materialism 11.1. 2004).
• 'Moving On: why we need a solidarity campaign with the Iraqi people not an “anti-war” movement”'

Conference Papers

• 'The Theoretical Foundations of Democratic Marxism' Political Studies Association, Marxism Specialist Group Conference, Edge Hill (1999).
• 'The Mind of Clark Kerr' Revisited: Hal Draper, The Free Speech Movement and the Critique of the “Multiversity” at Berkeley'
• Historical Sciences Conference, History of Universities Symposium, Oslo, (2000).
• 'Sentiment and Solidarity in the thought of Richard Rorty'
• Sixth International Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University (2000). 'The Frame and the Framer: Hal Draper and the Free Speech Movement', International Sociological Association, Social Movements Specialist Group, Manchester Metropolitan University (2001).
• 'Marxism and Democracy in the Thought of Hal Draper' ', The History of American Radicalism Conference, Tamiment Library, New York University, November 12-14. (2001).
• Leadership as Capacity: What we can learn from Christopher Hill', Seventh International Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University (2002).
• 'Political Leadership and Revolutionary Crises in Christopher Hill's English Revolution' Making Social Movements Conference, Edge Hill (2002).
• 'The Intoxicating Optimism of Empire: A Critique of the Political Thought of Hardt and Negri', Political Studies Association, Marxism Specialist Group Conference, Edge Hill (2003).
• Democracy and Anti-Democracy in the Thought of Hardt and Negri's Empire Paper presented to the Discourse Unit Seminar Series, Manchester Metropolitan University (2003).
• 'Social Movements, Egaliberte and Politics:', paper presented to the 'History Matters: Social Movements Past, Present and Future', The New School University, New York, USA (2003).

Other Interests Include…

Setting up a new international ejournal of democratic socialism, coaching my son's under-10s football team, IBIS Athletic, reading (Primo Levi and Irving Howe at the moment) music (Gillan Welch, the Strokes, and, er, Van Der Graaf Generator, at the moment) more football (my son the Young Gunner is an Arsenal fan and, though I am not, I can recognise once-or-twice-in-a-lifetime greatness when I see it) watching the West Wing, Sopranos and Baseball on NASN, reading normblog, and playing FIFA2004 and MVP Baseball 2204 on the PC, hanging a perfect curve ball low and away on an a 0-2 count.

I am currently working with others in Labour Friends of Iraq and supporting the work of Abdullah Muhsin, the UK Representative of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions.