Dr Robert P. Jackson
Senior Lecturer in Political Thought
My profile
Biography
I am an Edward W. Said Fellow 2024 at the Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University, NY). I am currently developing a book project on Said’s conception of ‘critical consciousness’ and its relationship with the thought of Antonio Gramsci. My areas of specialism are political theory and the history of modern political thought. My research addresses issues at the intersection of critical and postcolonial thought, in particular re-examining the role of intellectuals in modern society.
I have forthcoming articles in Interventions and Notebooks, and I am co-editor of Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks (Brill, 2020), a rich collection of innovative scholarship on Gramsci (also in paperback). I have published work in TOPOI, Theory and Event, Thesis Eleven, Gramsciana, Hegel Bulletin, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Science and Society, and the International Gramsci Journal.
Before joining Manchester Metropolitan in 2014, I lectured in European and International Studies at King’s College London, where I completed my PhD in 2013.
I co-created the Critical Theory in Hard Times network, which organised workshops on Decolonising Critical Thought (2021) and Racial Capitalism and Anti-Racist Futures (2023).
Academic and professional qualifications
- PhD European and International Studies, King’s College London
- MA Philosophy, University of Nottingham
- PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE
Other distinctions
Reviewer for:
Oxford University Press, Polity Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose, and Marx, Engels and Marxisms book series), Constellations: International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy,
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Science & Society, Historical Materialism, International Gramsci Journal, Academia Letters, Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi
Primary Member - Politics Research Group
Affiliate Member - Histories of RGSI (Race, Gender, Sexuality, Identity) Research Group and the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS)
Membership of professional associations
Political Studies Association (PSA), Association for Political Theory (APT), Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT), Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), International Gramsci Society (IGS)
AdvanceHE (formerly Higher Education Academy) - Fellow (FHEA)
Teaching
- Key Concepts in Politics (Y1)
- Modern Political Thought I (Y2)
- Modern Political Thought II (Y2)
- Italian Political Thought (Y3)
- Contemporary Political Issues, Case Study: Neo-Gramscianism and International Relations (Y3)
Supervision
Areas of supervision for research degrees include:
- History of Political Thought
- Social and Political Theory
- Critical and Marxist Theory and Philosophy
- Italian Political Philosophy
Research outputs
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Antonini, F., Bernstein, A., Fusaro, L., Jackson, R. (2020) Revisiting Gramsci’s notebooks.
Jackson, R.P. (2019) Revisiting Gramsci's 'Notebooks'. Leiden: Brill.
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Chapters in books
Jackson, R.P. (2024) 'Gramsci, Marx, Hegel.' In Carroll, W.K. (ed.) The Elgar Companion to Antonio Gramsci. Edward Elgar Publishing,
Jackson, R. (2019) 'The ‘Mummification of Culture’ in Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks.' In Jackson, R.P., Antonini, F., Fusaro, L., Bernstein, A. (ed.) Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks. Brill,
Antonini, F., Bernstein, A., Fusaro, L., Jackson, R. (2019) 'Introduction: Gramsci Past and Present.' Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks. BRILL,
Jackson, R.P. (2018) 'Violence and Civilization: Gramsci, Machiavelli, and Sorel.' In Rae, G., Ingala, E. (ed.) The Meanings of Violence: From Critical Theory to Biopolitics. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 48-64.
Jackson, R.P. (2017) 'Antonio Gramsci: persons, subjectivity, and the political.' In Rae, G., Ingala, E. (ed.) Subjectivity and the political: contemporary perspectives. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge,
Jackson, R.P. (2017) 'Antonio Gramsci’s Dialectic: Past and Present.' In Breda, S., Boveiri, K., Wolf, F.O. (ed.) Materialistische Dialektik bei Marx und über Marx hinaus. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, pp. 137-149.
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Internet publications
Jackson, R.P. (2024) US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed. https://theconversation.com/us-student-gaza-protests-five-things-that-have-been-missed-228971.
Jackson, R. (2019) Book review: Richard Westerman, Lukács’s Phenomenology of Capitalism. https://www.c-scp.org/2019/08/28/richard-westerman-lukacss-phenomenology-of-capitalism.
Jackson, R.P., Muldoon, J. (2018) Karl Marx: ten things to read if you want to understand him. https://theconversation.com/karl-marx-ten-things-to-read-if-you-want-to-understand-him-95818.
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Journal articles
Jackson, R. 'Rethinking trajectories of the Iintellectual: Edward Said and Antonio Gramsci.' Notebooks: The Journal for Studies on Power, 4
Mueller, M., Jackson, R.P. (2022) 'Reimagining the Social Bond: Review of Kevin Duong's The Virtues of Violence.' Theory and Event: an online journal of political theory, 25(3) pp. 716-719.
Jackson, R.P. (2021) '‘Disfigurations’ of Democracy? Pareto, Mosca and the Challenge of ‘Elite Theory’.' Topoi, 41(1) pp. 45-55.
Jackson, R. (2021) '“Good sense” in the twenty-first century.' The International Gramsci Journal, 4(2)
Jackson, R. (2020) 'A Book Review Symposium: On Critical Pedagogy.' Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 18(2)
Jackson, R.P. (2020) 'One step back, two steps forward: Neo-Kantianism and Lukács’s transformative praxis.' Thesis Eleven, 157(1) pp. 133-141.
Jackson, R.P. (2020) 'Book review: Jan Kandiyali (ed.). Reassessing Marx's Social and Political Philosophy. Freedom, Recognition and Human Flourishing. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 987-1-138-22620-3 (hbk). Pp. 278. £120.00..' Hegel Bulletin, 41(3) pp. 483-486.
Jackson, R.P. (2017) 'Lebowitz, Lukács and Postone: Subjectivity in Capital.' Science and Society, 81(2) pp. 248-278.
Jackson, R.P. (2017) 'Lebowitz, Lukács and Postone: Subjectivity in 'Capital'.' Science and Society: a journal of marxist thought and analysis, 81(2) pp. 248-278.
Jackson, R.P. (2016) 'Subalternity and the Mummification of Culture in Gramsci’s “Prison Notebooks”.' The International Gramsci Journal, 2(1)
Jackson, R.P. (2016) 'On Bourdieu and Gramsci.' Gramsciana: Rivista internazionale di studi su Antonio Gramsci, 2pp. 141-176.
Jackson, R.P. (2014) 'Book Review: Alain Badiou and Fabien Tarby, Philosophy and the Event; Sean Bowden and Simon Duffy (eds) Badiou and Philosophy.' Marx & Philosophy Review of Books,