Brad Evans (author) explained

Brad Evans
Birth Date:2 March 1974
Birth Place:Rhondda, Wales, UK
Occupation:Academic
Spouse:Chantal Meza

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] He is the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Violence.[2]

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.[3]

Evans was previously Senior Lecturer of International Relations at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.[4] 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).[5]

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'.[6] As part of this project, Evans co-directed a documentary, Ten Years of Terror, with Simon Critchley.[7] This was screened at 11am at the Solomon K. Guggenheim on the 9, 12, and 13 September 2011.[8]

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.[9] 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, Jake Chapman, and Marina Abramovic.[10]

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.[11] In 2020, he curated a collection of short essays by various thinkers and artists in self-isolation titled "The Quarantine Files.[12] Following this, in September 2021 he curated a collection of essays to commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11 under the title "When the Towers Fell".[13]

Evans has also authored or co-authored ten articles in other major broadsheet papers: three times for Times Higher Education,[14] [15] [16] twice for the Independent[17] [18] and Newsweek,[19] [20] and once each for the New York Times,[21] The Guardian,[22] and the Times.[23] He is now a regular contributor to the online politics magazine UnHerd.[24]

Works

As of May 2023, Evans' published academic work encompasses three single-authored books, two co-authored books, two single edited volumes and five co-edited volumes. He has co-edited five journal special issues, and produced eleven single-authored peer-reviewed journal papers, twenty three co-authored journal papers, eleven single-authored book chapters, thirteen co-authored book chapters. He has also written a part personal memoir and peoples history of life growing up in the South Wales mining valleys, along with co-authored a graphic novel.[25]

Personal Memoir/Peoples History

Single-authored Academic Books

Co-authored Academic Books

Co-edited Academic Books

Single-authored Non-Academic Books

Co-authored Graphic Novels

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brad Evans. 2021-01-05. the University of Bath's research portal. en.
  2. Web site: Centre for the Study of Violence . 2023-05-14 . www.bath.ac.uk.
  3. Evans. Brad. 2008. The Zapatista Insurgency: Bringing the Political Back into Conflict Analysis. New Political Science. 30. 4. 497–520. 10.1080/07393140802486245. 144463860. 0739-3148.
  4. Web site: Bristol. University of. 2015: Brad Evans guest editor of LA Review of Books School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies University of Bristol. 2021-01-05. www.bris.ac.uk. en-GB.
  5. Web site: Brad Evans. 2021-01-05. the University of Bath's research portal. en.
  6. Web site: Contact & Details. 2021-01-05. historiesofviolence. en.
  7. Web site: Ten Years of Terror. 2021-01-05. historiesofviolence. en.
  8. Web site: 2019-01-28. 2021-01-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082756/https://media.guggenheim.org/content/New_York/press_room/photo_service/Listings/tenyearsofterroralert_final.pdf. 2019-01-28.
  9. News: 2017-02-23. Violence. en-US. The New York Times. 2019-03-08. 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: Histories of Violence. 2019-03-08. Los Angeles Review of Books.
  11. Web site: Bristol. University of. 2015: Brad Evans guest editor of LA Review of Books School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies University of Bristol. 2021-01-05. www.bris.ac.uk. en-GB.
  12. Web site: Evans. Brad. Kehinde. rews. Berlant. Lauren. Brown. Wendy. Br. Russell. Chapman. Jake. Critchley. Simon. Dungy. Camille. The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation. 2021-01-05. Los Angeles Review of Books. 14 April 2020.
  13. Web site: 2021-09-11 . When the Towers Fell . 2024-05-13 . Los Angeles Review of Books.
  14. Web site: Evans . Brad . 2021-01-04 . Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive . 2024-05-13 . Times Higher Education (THE) . en.
  15. Web site: Evans . Brad . 2024-01-03 . White-walled lecture theatres are a missed teaching opportunity . 2024-05-13 . Times Higher Education (THE) . en.
  16. Web site: Evans . Brad . 2024-02-27 . Researching violence in your own community can be a slap in the face . 2024-05-13 . Times Higher Education (THE) . en.
  17. Web site: 2020-03-12. Opinion: Why outbreaks like the coronavirus are so quick to inspire racism. 2021-01-05. The Independent. en.
  18. Web site: 2014-02-04. We must change the way we think about mass violence. 2021-01-05. The Independent. en.
  19. Web site: 2019-04-16. Why can't we all grieve for Notre Dame? Opinion. 2021-01-05. Newsweek. en.
  20. Web site: 2019-03-22. Speak no evil: What we can learn from Jacinda Ardern's response to Christchurch Opinion. 2021-01-05. Newsweek. en.
  21. News: Evans . Brad . 2017-02-23 . Opinion Humans in Dark Times . 2024-05-13 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  22. Web site: 2011-08-31. New thinking is needed about September 11 Brad Evans and Simon Critchley. 2021-01-05. The Guardian. en.
  23. News: Evans. Brad. Let's talk about the education of white working-class boys. The Times. en. 2021-01-05. 0140-0460.
  24. Web site: Brad Evans . 2024-05-13 . UnHerd . en-GB.
  25. Web site: Author Bibliography. 2021-01-05. brad-evans. en.
  26. Web site: How Black Was My Valley by Brad Evans: 9781913462840 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2024-05-13 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  27. Book: Chapman, Brad Evans Foreword by Jake. Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity. July 2021. Columbia University Press. 978-0-231-54558-7.
  28. Web site: Liberal Terror Wiley. 2021-01-05. Wiley.com. en-gb.
  29. Web site: Disposable Futures, The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle. 2021-01-05. www.citylights.com. EN.
  30. Web site: Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously Wiley. 2021-01-05. Wiley.com. en-gb.
  31. Web site: Los Angeles Review of Books Kindful . 2022-06-09 . lareviewofbooks.kindful.com.
  32. Web site: Conversations on Violence. 2021-07-15. Pluto Press. en-US.
  33. Web site: Evans. Brad. Kehinde. rews. Berlant. Lauren. Brown. Wendy. Br. Russell. Chapman. Jake. Critchley. Simon. Dungy. Camille. The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation. 2021-07-15. Los Angeles Review of Books. 14 April 2020 .
  34. Web site: Violence, Humans in Dark Times. 2021-01-05. www.citylights.com. EN.
  35. Web site: Histories of Violence. 2021-01-05. ZED Books. en.
  36. Web site: Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics. 2021-01-05. Routledge & CRC Press. en.
  37. Web site: Atrocity Exhibition. 2021-01-05. LARB Books. en-US.
  38. Book: Evans. Bradley. Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking. Wilson. Sean Michael. Inko. Null. Morikawa. Michiru. Mackenzie. Chris. Thompson. Carl. Quach. Yen. Brown. Robert. 2016-10-12. New Internationalist. 978-1-78026-318-2. English.

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