Outputs (18)

Moral Socialism and Liberal Citizenship (2025)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2025). Moral Socialism and Liberal Citizenship. Critical Sociology, https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205241311503

The current crisis of liberal democracy has led to a reconsideration of the idea of socialism. This article seeks to critically compare three different approaches to socialism, all of which draw on specifically moral criteria. The first is a form of... Read More about Moral Socialism and Liberal Citizenship.

Class, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of English Heritage: Beyond Neoliberalism and Consumerism (2023)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2023). Class, Critical Pedagogy, and the Politics of English Heritage: Beyond Neoliberalism and Consumerism. Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 2023(21), 102-120

Orwell as Public Intellectual: Anarchism, Communism and the New Left (2021)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2021). Orwell as Public Intellectual: Anarchism, Communism and the New Left. Anarchist Studies, 29(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.3898/AS.29.1.01

This article seeks to recover the importance of George Orwell as a critical public intellectual. Orwell remains a controversial figure for both The New Left and Anarchists during the post-war period. Here I seek to recover the complexity of Orwell’s... Read More about Orwell as Public Intellectual: Anarchism, Communism and the New Left.

Critical theory in the Anthropocene: Marcuse, Marxism and ecology (2020)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2021). Critical theory in the Anthropocene: Marcuse, Marxism and ecology. European Journal of Social Theory, 24(2), 211-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431020962726

The politics of the Anthropocene has been widely debated within recent sociological theory. This article seeks to argue that Marxism, critical theory and especially the work of Herbert Marcuse has a great deal to contribute to these debates. Here I s... Read More about Critical theory in the Anthropocene: Marcuse, Marxism and ecology.

Raymond Williams and the politics of the Commons: the performative quality of the intellectual (2019)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2019). Raymond Williams and the politics of the Commons: the performative quality of the intellectual. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(5), 691-705. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877919849958

Much of the sociological work on intellectuals is mostly concerned with the structural role they play within society. In this respect, Raymond Williams is best understood in Gramscian (1988) terms as an organic intellectual connected to the labour mo... Read More about Raymond Williams and the politics of the Commons: the performative quality of the intellectual.

Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism (2018)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2018). Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism. Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 16, 63-83

After the end of the Cold War Marxist thought entered into a long crisis from which it is only just beginning to emerge. After 1989 it was no longer clear, apart from a few revolutionary outposts, what a commitment to Marxism meant. Not surprisingly... Read More about Raymond Williams and the possibilities of ‘committed’ late Marxism.

Education and the alterity of democracy (2018)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2018). Education and the alterity of democracy. Cadernos de Pesquisa, 48(167), https://doi.org/10.1590/198053144668

The idea of a democratic education in the English context has lost a considerable amount of ground since the 1960s. Here I argue that such is the dominance of neoliberal understandings of education over the Right and much of the social democratic Lef... Read More about Education and the alterity of democracy.

Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom (2016)
Book
Stevenson, N. (2017). Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315742236

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circulating about freedom. The first is that in a global... Read More about Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom.

E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons (2016)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (2017). E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons. Cultural Sociology, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975516655462

There is currently a need for cultural sociology to readdress the work of humanistic and cultural Marxism. While more recently much of this work has been dismissed the appearance of more radical social movements and the on-going crisis of neoliberali... Read More about E.P. Thompson and cultural sociology: questions of poetics, capitalism and the commons.

Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons (2015)
Journal Article
Stevenson, N. (in press). Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons. Citizenship Studies, 19(6-7), https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2015.1053796

This article investigates the possibilities for the emergence of more participatory forms of citizenship in the context of austerity Europe. Especially significant in this regard is the history of the post-war New Left who were critical of both socia... Read More about Post-citizenship, the New Left and the democratic commons.