James Heartfield (born 1961) is a British lecturer and historian.
Life
Heartfield has written books on the history of the
British Empire, including
The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (2016) and
The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration (2019). Heartfield has written for
ArtReview,
Blueprint, Spiked Online, and the
Times Education Supplement. His Ph.D. thesis (awarded by the University of Westminster) was published as
The European Union and the End of Politics, in 2013.
[ [1] Our Doctoral Research Programme, University of Westminster ]
In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja, he interviewed the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.
Politics
Heartfield is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and was previously a writer for their magazine
Living Marxism.
[See Heartfield, 'The Tyranny of Identity Politics'
]
and also,'Articles from Living Marxism online' on Heartfield's website http://heartfield.org/lm.htm In 2002 he helped set up the Audacity campaign for more house-building.
He has written in favour of
Israel'
/ref> Heartfield stood as a candidate for the
Brexit Party in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom for Yorkshire and the Humber but did not gain a seat.
Personal life
He lives in north
London and is married with two daughters.
[ James Heartfield's homepage for 16 September 2017]
Publications
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Britain's Empires: A History, 1600–2020 London, Anthem Press, 2022
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The Blood-Stained Poppy: A critique of the politics of commemoration London, Zer0 Books, 2019
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The Equal Opportunities Revolution London, Repeater Books, 2017
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The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society London Hurst Books/Oxford University Press, 2016
[Reviews of The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society:
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Katie Donington, History: The Journal of the Historical Association,
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Richard R. Follett, History: Reviews of New Books,
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Kevin Grant, The Journal of African History,
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Richard Huzzey, Victorian Studies, ,
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Reinhart Kößler, Peripherie, [3]
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Alex Middleton, The English Historical Review,
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J. R. Oldfield, Journal of British Studies,
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Dorothy V. Smith, Africa Today, ,
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Who's Afraid of the Easter Rising? (with Kevin Rooney), London Zer0, Books, 2015
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The European Union and the End of Politics London, Zer0 Books, 2013
[Review of The European Union and the End of Politics:
]
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Alexandru Drăgulin, Journal of Ethnophilosophical Questions and Global Ethics, [4]
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British Workers & the US Civil War London, Reverspective, 2013
[Review of British Workers & the US Civil War:
]
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John Asimakopoulos, Theory in Action,
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Unpatriotic History of the Second World War London, Zer0 Books, 2012
[Review of Unpatriotic History of the Second World War:
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John Newsinger, Review 31, [5]
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The Aborigines' Protection Society: Humanitarian Imperialism in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Canada, South Africa, and the Congo, 1836–1909 Hurst (London), and Columbia University Press (New York), 2011
[Reviews of The Aborigines' Protection Society:
]
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Samuel Furphy, Aboriginal History,
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Susan Hinely, Human Rights Review,
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Douglas A. Lorimer, Victorian Studies, ,
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Jane Samson, The Journal of Pacific History, ,
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Caroline Shaw, Journal of Human Rights,
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Rachel Standfield, H-Net Reviews, [6]
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Green Capitalism: manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance, Openmute, 2008
[Review of Green Capitalism:
]
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Nathan Coombs, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, [7]
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Let's Build! Why we need Five Million Homes in the next 10 Years (Audacity, 2006)
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Escape the Creative Ghetto, with Chris Powell, NESTA, 2006
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Creativity Gap Blueprint, 2005
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The "Death of the Subject" Explained Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002
[Review of The "Death of the Subject" Explained:
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Munira Mirza, International Journal of Cultural Policy,
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Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy London, Design Agenda, 2000
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Need and Desire in the Post-material Economy Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998
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Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Ageco-editor with Ian Abley, London, John Wiley, 2002.
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