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DR Ben Whitham's Outputs (20)

Terrorism (2024)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B., & Ali, N. (2024). Terrorism. In N. Rossi, & M. Riemann (Eds.), Security Studies: An Applied Introduction. Sage

Britain in the World (2024)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B. (2024). Britain in the World. In J. Willett, & A. Giovannini (Eds.), An Introduction to UK Politics: Place, Pluralism, and Identities. Sage

Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia (2024)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B. (2024). Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia. In A. Easat-Daas, & I. Zempi (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia (29-53). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52022-8_3

Women disproportionately bear the brunt of Islamophobic racism in the UK. Scholarly explanations of this compound inequality, influenced by Jasmine Zine’s pioneering work on gendered Islamophobia in Canada, often point to the fact that women may bear... Read More about Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia.

The Revolution of Values and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (2023)
Journal Article
Whitham, B. (2024). The Revolution of Values and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. Global Political Economy, 3(1), 152-171. https://doi.org/10.1332/ONRF8537

One domain of global political economy (GPE) that warrants more serious scholarly attention is the plane of what Jessop (2010) calls ‘cultural political economy’ (CPE). This article connects GPE and CPE, through an exploration of the production and e... Read More about The Revolution of Values and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy.

Global Politics (3rd Edition) (2023)
Book
Heywood, A., & Whitham, B. (2023). Global Politics (3rd Edition). Bloomsbury

This systematic and integrated analysis of the theory and practice of contemporary international relations, covers traditional and critical theory, core issues and recent developments in the field. Diversified and dewesternised, this new edition take... Read More about Global Politics (3rd Edition).

The cultural politics of crisis in the UK (2021)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B. The cultural politics of crisis in the UK. In S. Price, & B. Harbisher (Eds.), Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic (71-85). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003147299-6

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 triggered a global public health crisis. States, international organisations, health services and societies struggled to contain the virus and its potentially catastrophic social and economic effects. Thi... Read More about The cultural politics of crisis in the UK.

Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation (2021)
Journal Article
Hall, R., Ansley, L., Connolly, P., Loonat, S., Patel, K., & Whitham, B. (in press). Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(7/8), 902-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1911987

Increasingly, institutions are amplifying work on race equality, in order to engage with movements for Black lives and decolonising. This brings universities into relations with individual and communal issues of whiteness, white fragility and privile... Read More about Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation.

A postmodern neo-Marxist’s guide to free speech: Jordan Peterson, the alt-right and neo-fascism (2020)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B. (2020). A postmodern neo-Marxist’s guide to free speech: Jordan Peterson, the alt-right and neo-fascism. In C. L. Riley (Ed.), The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter? (227-238). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526152558.00027

Jordan Peterson is a central figure in the so-called ‘culture wars’. Lumping together 'postmodern neo-Marxists', feminists, queer theorists and transgender rights activists as the ‘social justice warrior' blob he stands against, Peterson has become a... Read More about A postmodern neo-Marxist’s guide to free speech: Jordan Peterson, the alt-right and neo-fascism.

Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity (2020)
Journal Article
Ali, N., & Whitham, B. (2021). Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity. International Political Sociology, 15(2), 190-211. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaa023

Explorations of Islamophobia or anti-Muslim racism predominantly focus on issues of security policy and media representations, set against the backdrop of the global “War on Terror.” This scholarship explores the racialization of Muslim populations a... Read More about Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity.

The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security (2018)
Journal Article
Ali, N., & Whitham, B. (in press). The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security. Security Dialogue, 49(5), 400-417. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010618794050

A succession of media scandals and policy arguments in the UK in recent years has been integral to the construction of a so-called ‘Muslim Problem’. Media and political attention paid to Muslims in British public life, across a vast and varied range... Read More about The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security.

Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends) (2018)
Journal Article
Whitham, B. (2018). Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends). tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 16(2), 707-716. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.981

We stand at a key juncture: a Western political crisis arose in 2016-17 to match the deep economic crisis of the preceding decade. Events and new social movements of recent years seem to hail the collapse of the project of liberal democracy, though i... Read More about Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends).

Post-Crash Neoliberalism in Theory and Practice (2017)
Journal Article
Whitham, B. (in press). Post-Crash Neoliberalism in Theory and Practice. Political Studies Review, 16(4), 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917720430

Despite the massive state interventions into financial markets following the crash of 2007, the academic literature on the political-economic theory and practice of neoliberalism – a phenomenon often (mis)identified as equivalent to ‘free market’ fun... Read More about Post-Crash Neoliberalism in Theory and Practice.

Review of: Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom by Weaver Timothy PR. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 349pp., £45.50 (h/b), ISBN 9780812247824 (2017)
Journal Article
Whitham, B. Review of: Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom by Weaver Timothy PR. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 349pp., £45.50 (h/b), ISBN 9780812247824. Political Studies Review, 15(2), 297-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917695299