Brad Evans (author)

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Brad Evans
Born (1974-03-02) March 2, 1974 (age 50)
Rhondda, Wales, UK
OccupationAcademic
SpouseChantal Meza
Website www.brad-evans.co.uk

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]

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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.

Evans has also authored or co-authored six articles in other major broadsheet papers: twice for the Independent [13] [14] and Newsweek, [15] [16] and once each for The Guardian, [17] the Times [18] and the Times Higher Education. [19] Evans is an occasional guest on Russell Brand's podcast series, Under the Skin. [20] His 2013 book Liberal Terror was the focus for the inaugural episode of the podcast. [21] Subsequent appearances have focused on his ongoing concern with violence, technology and art, including a discussion about his book Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity, in which he explained why technology was becoming a new religion.

Works

As of June 2022, Evans' published academic work encompasses three single-authored books, two co-authored books, two single edited volumes and four co-edited volumes. He has co-edited five journal special issues, and produced ten single-authored peer-reviewed journal papers, sixteen co-authored journal papers, ten single-authored book chapters, nine co-authored book chapters,. [22] He has also co-authored a graphic novel.

Single-authored Academic Books

Co-authored Academic Books

Co-edited Academic Books

Single-authored Non-Academic Books

Co-authored Graphic Novels

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  1. ↑ "Brad Evans". the University of Bath's research portal. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  2. ↑ "Centre for the Study of Violence". www.bath.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Brad Evans". the University of Bath's research portal. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  6. ↑ "Contact & Details". historiesofviolence. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  7. ↑ "Ten Years of Terror". historiesofviolence. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  8. ↑ . 2019-01-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082756/https://media.guggenheim.org/content/New_York/press_room/photo_service/Listings/tenyearsofterroralert_final.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2021-01-05.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ Evans, Brad; Kehinde; rews; Berlant, Lauren; Brown, Wendy; Br, Russell; Chapman, Jake; Critchley, Simon; Dungy, Camille (14 April 2020). "The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  13. ↑ "Opinion: Why outbreaks like the coronavirus are so quick to inspire racism". The Independent. 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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  15. ↑ "Why can't we all grieve for Notre Dame? | Opinion". Newsweek. 2019-04-16. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  16. ↑ "Speak no evil: What we can learn from Jacinda Ardern's response to Christchurch | Opinion". Newsweek. 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  17. ↑ "New thinking is needed about September 11 | Brad Evans and Simon Critchley". The Guardian. 2011-08-31. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  18. ↑ Evans, Brad. "Let's talk about the education of white working-class boys". The Times . ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  19. ↑ "Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive". Times Higher Education (THE). 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
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  22. ↑ "Author Bibliography". brad-evans. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  23. ↑ Chapman, Brad Evans Foreword by Jake (July 2021). Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity. Columbia University Press. ISBN   978-0-231-54558-7.
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  26. ↑ "Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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  28. ↑ "Conversations on Violence". Pluto Press. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  29. ↑ Evans, Brad; Kehinde; rews; Berlant, Lauren; Brown, Wendy; Br, Russell; Chapman, Jake; Critchley, Simon; Dungy, Camille (14 April 2020). "The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
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  33. ↑ "Atrocity Exhibition". LARB Books. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  34. ↑ 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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