Brad Evans (author)

Brad Evans is a British academic, and Professor of Political Violence at the department of Politics, Languages & International Studies at the University of Bath, United Kingdom.[1]

Brad Evans
Born (1974-03-02) March 2, 1974
Rhondda, Wales, UK
OccupationAcademic
Websitewww.brad-evans.co.uk

Academic Work

Evans holds two master's degrees from the University of Leeds, in development economics and international relations. His PhD, titled "War for the Politics of Life", dealt with forms of resistance to liberal regimes of power, during which he spent visiting the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico.[2]

Evans was previously Senior Lecturer of International Relations at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.[3] He has been a visiting fellow at the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, New York (2013–14) and distinguished society fellow at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (2017).[4]

Evans' writing presents political, philosophical and aesthetic perspectives on violence.

Media Profile

In 2011, Evans founded the Histories of Violence project which sought to explore 'the theoretical, aesthetic and empirical dimensions to violence'.[5] As part of this project, Evans co-directed a documentary, Ten Years of Terror, with Simon Critchley.[6] This was screened at 11am at the Solomon K. Guggenheim on the 9, 12, and 13 September, 2011.[7]

As a further extension of the Histories of Violence Project, from 15 December 2015 to 23 February 2017, Evans hosted a series of conversations on violence for the opinion section of the New York Times, co-authoring ten pieces with thinkers such as Simon Critchley, Bracha Ettinger, Zygmunt Bauman, Richard Bernstein and Simona Forti.[8] This series was continued at the Los Angeles Review of Books, where Evans has co-authored articles with various artists and thinkers including Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, John Akomfrah, Elaine Scarry, Malcolm London and Marina Abramovic.[9]

As a guest-editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, in 2015 Evans curated a collection of essays dedicated to the commemoration of the death of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.[10] In 2020, he curated a collection of short essays by various thinkers and artists in self-isolation.[11]

Evans has also authored or co-authored six articles in other major broadsheet papers: twice for the Independent[12][13] and Newsweek,[14][15] and once each for the Guardian[16] and Times.[17] Evans is an occasional guest on Russell Brand's podcast series, Under the Skin.[18] His 2013 book Liberal Terror was the focus for the inaugural episode of the podcast.[19]

Works

As of December 2020, Evans' published academic work encompasses one single-authored book, two co-authored books, and three co-edited volumes. He has co-edited five journal special issues, and produced four single-authored book chapters, seven co-authored book chapters, eight single-authored peer-reviewed journal papers, and eight co-authored journal papers.[20] He has also co-authored a graphic novel.

Single-authored Academic Books

  • Liberal Terror (Cambridge, Polity Press: 2013)[21]

Co-authored Academic Books

  • Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (San Francisco, City Lights: 2015) (with Henry A. Giroux)[22]
  • Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (Cambridge, Polity Press: 2014) (with Julian Reid)[23]

Co-edited Academic Books

  • Violence: Humans in Dark Times (San Francisco, City Lights: 2018) (Co-edited with Natasha Lennard)[24]
  • Histories of Violence: An Introduction to Post War Critical Thought (London, Zed Books: 2017) (Co-edited with Terrell Carver)[25]
  • Deleuze & Fascism: Security, War & Aesthetics (London, Routledge: 2013) (Co-edited with Julian Reid)[26]

Single-authored Non-Academic Books

  • The Atrocity Exhibition: Life in an Age of Total Violence (Los Angeles, LA Review of Books Press: 2019)[27]

Co-authored Graphic Novels

  • Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking (London, New Internationalist: 2016) (with Sean Michael Wilson)[28]

References
  1. "Brad Evans". the University of Bath's research portal. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  2. Evans, Brad (2008). "The Zapatista Insurgency: Bringing the Political Back into Conflict Analysis". New Political Science. 30 (4): 497–520. doi:10.1080/07393140802486245. ISSN 0739-3148. S2CID 144463860.
  3. Bristol, University of. "2015: Brad Evans guest editor of LA Review of Books | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies | University of Bristol". www.bris.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. "Brad Evans". the University of Bath's research portal. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  5. "Contact & Details". historiesofviolence. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  6. "Ten Years of Terror". historiesofviolence. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  7. "Wayback Machine" (PDF). web.archive.org. 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2021-01-05. Cite uses generic title (help)
  8. "Violence". The New York Times. 2017-02-23. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  9. "Histories of Violence". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  10. Bristol, University of. "2015: Brad Evans guest editor of LA Review of Books | School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies | University of Bristol". www.bris.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  11. Evans, Brad; Kehinde; rews; Berlant, Lauren; Brown, Wendy; Br, Russell; Chapman, Jake; Critchley, Simon; Dungy, Camille. "The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  12. "Opinion: Why outbreaks like the coronavirus are so quick to inspire racism". The Independent. 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  13. "We must change the way we think about mass violence". The Independent. 2014-02-04. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  14. "Why can't we all grieve for Notre Dame? | Opinion". Newsweek. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  15. "Speak no evil: What we can learn from Jacinda Ardern's response to Christchurch | Opinion". Newsweek. 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  16. "New thinking is needed about September 11 | Brad Evans and Simon Critchley". the Guardian. 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  17. Evans, Brad. "Let's talk about the education of white working-class boys". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  18. "Under The Skin with Russell Brand". web.archive.org. 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  19. "Under The Skin with Russell Brand". ART19. Archived from the original on 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  20. "Author Bibliography". brad-evans. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  21. "Liberal Terror | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  22. "Disposable Futures, The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle". www.citylights.com. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  23. "Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  24. "Violence, Humans in Dark Times". www.citylights.com. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  25. "Histories of Violence". ZED Books. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  26. "Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  27. "Atrocity Exhibition". LARB Books. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  28. Evans, Bradley; Wilson, Sean Michael; Inko, Null; Morikawa, Michiru; Mackenzie, Chris; Thompson, Carl; Quach, Yen; Brown, Robert (2016-10-12). Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking. New Internationalist. ISBN 978-1-78026-318-2.
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