Brad Evans (author)
{{Short description|British academic and author}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Brad Evans
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|03|02}}
| birth_place = Rhondda, Wales, UK
| occupation = Academic
| spouse = Chantal Meza
| website = {{URL|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.{{Cite web|title=Brad Evans|url=https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/brad-evans|access-date=2021-01-05|website=the University of Bath's research portal|language=en}} He is the founder and director of the Centre for the Study of Violence.{{Cite web |title=Centre for the Study of Violence |url=https://www.bath.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-for-the-study-of-violence/ |access-date=2023-05-14 |website=www.bath.ac.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.{{Cite journal|last=Evans|first=Brad|date=2008|title=The Zapatista Insurgency: Bringing the Political Back into Conflict Analysis|journal=New Political Science|volume=30|issue=4|pages=497–520|doi=10.1080/07393140802486245|s2cid=144463860|issn=0739-3148}}
Evans was previously Senior Lecturer of International Relations at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol.{{Cite web|last=Bristol|first=University of|title=2015: Brad Evans guest editor of LA Review of Books {{!}} School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies {{!}} University of Bristol|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/spais/news/2015/brad-evans-guest-editor-of-la-review-of-books.html|access-date=2021-01-05|website=www.bris.ac.uk|language=en-GB}} 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).{{Cite web|title=Brad Evans|url=https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/brad-evans|access-date=2021-01-05|website=the University of Bath's research portal|language=en}}
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'.{{Cite web|title=Contact & Details|url=https://www.historiesofviolence.com/-contact|access-date=2021-01-05|website=historiesofviolence|language=en}} As part of this project, Evans co-directed a documentary, Ten Years of Terror, with Simon Critchley.{{Cite web|title=Ten Years of Terror|url=https://www.historiesofviolence.com/tenyearsofterror|access-date=2021-01-05|website=historiesofviolence|language=en}} This was screened at 11am at the Solomon K. Guggenheim on the 9, 12, and 13 September 2011.{{Cite web|date=2019-01-28|title=|url=https://media.guggenheim.org/content/New_York/press_room/photo_service/Listings/tenyearsofterroralert_final.pdf|access-date=2021-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128082756/https://media.guggenheim.org/content/New_York/press_room/photo_service/Listings/tenyearsofterroralert_final.pdf|archive-date=2019-01-28}}
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.{{Cite news|date=2017-02-23|title=Violence|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/series/the-stone-violence|access-date=2019-03-08|issn=0362-4331}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Histories of Violence|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/sections/histories-of-violence/|access-date=2019-03-08|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}
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.{{Cite web|last=Bristol|first=University of|title=2015: Brad Evans guest editor of LA Review of Books {{!}} School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies {{!}} University of Bristol|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/spais/news/2015/brad-evans-guest-editor-of-la-review-of-books.html|access-date=2021-01-05|website=www.bris.ac.uk|language=en-GB}} In 2020, he curated a collection of short essays by various thinkers and artists in self-isolation titled "The Quarantine Files.{{Cite web|last1=Evans|first1=Brad|last2=Kehinde|last3=rews|last4=Berlant|first4=Lauren|last5=Brown|first5=Wendy|last6=Br|first6=Russell|last7=Chapman|first7=Jake|last8=Critchley|first8=Simon|last9=Dungy|first9=Camille|title=The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/quarantine-files-thinkers-self-isolation/|access-date=2021-01-05|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=14 April 2020}} 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".{{Cite web |date=2021-09-11 |title=When the Towers Fell |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-the-towers-fell |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}
Evans has also authored or co-authored ten articles in other major broadsheet papers: three times for Times Higher Education,{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Brad |date=2021-01-04 |title=Choosing sides in campus culture wars is counterproductive |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/choosing-sides-campus-culture-wars-counterproductive |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Brad |date=2024-01-03 |title=White-walled lecture theatres are a missed teaching opportunity |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/white-walled-lecture-theatres-are-missed-teaching-opportunity |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Brad |date=2024-02-27 |title=Researching violence in your own community can be a slap in the face |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/researching-violence-your-own-community-can-be-slap-face |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}} twice for the Independent{{Cite web|date=2020-03-12|title=Opinion: Why outbreaks like the coronavirus are so quick to inspire racism|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-italy-uk-racism-antisemitism-cases-plague-pandemic-a9394391.html|access-date=2021-01-05|website=The Independent|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2014-02-04|title=We must change the way we think about mass violence|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/we-remember-atrocities-20th-century-we-must-change-way-we-think-about-violence-9106289.html|access-date=2021-01-05|website=The Independent|language=en}} and Newsweek,{{Cite web|date=2019-04-16|title=Why can't we all grieve for Notre Dame? {{!}} Opinion|url=https://www.newsweek.com/notre-dame-public-grief-imperialism-1398215|access-date=2021-01-05|website=Newsweek|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2019-03-22|title=Speak no evil: What we can learn from Jacinda Ardern's response to Christchurch {{!}} Opinion|url=https://www.newsweek.com/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-christchurch-response-1372544|access-date=2021-01-05|website=Newsweek|language=en}} and once each for the New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Evans |first=Brad |date=2017-02-23 |title=Opinion {{!}} Humans in Dark Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/opinion/humans-in-dark-times.html |access-date=2024-05-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} The Guardian,{{Cite web|date=2011-08-31|title=New thinking is needed about September 11 {{!}} Brad Evans and Simon Critchley|url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/31/september-11-new-thinking|access-date=2021-01-05|website=The Guardian|language=en}} and the Times.{{Cite news|last=Evans|first=Brad|title=Let's talk about the education of white working-class boys|newspaper=The Times|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lets-talk-about-the-education-of-white-working-class-boys-7zptwg8xr|access-date=2021-01-05|issn=0140-0460}} He is now a regular contributor to the online politics magazine UnHerd.{{Cite web |title=Brad Evans |url=https://unherd.com/author/brad-evansunherd-com/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=UnHerd |language=en-GB}}
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.{{Cite web|title=Author Bibliography|url=https://www.brad-evans.co.uk/authorbibliography|access-date=2021-01-05|website=brad-evans|language=en}}
Personal Memoir/Peoples History
- How Black was my Valley: Poverty & Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland (London, Repeater Books: 2024){{Cite web |title=How Black Was My Valley by Brad Evans: 9781913462840 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740014/how-black-was-my-valley-by-brad-evans/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}
Single-authored Academic Books
- Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (New York, Columbia University Press: 2021){{Cite book|last=Chapman|first=Brad Evans Foreword by Jake|url=http://cup.columbia.edu/book/ecce-humanitas/9780231184632|title=Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity|date=July 2021|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-54558-7}}
- Liberal Terror (Cambridge, Polity Press: 2013){{Cite web|title=Liberal Terror {{!}} Wiley|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Liberal+Terror-p-9780745665313|access-date=2021-01-05|website=Wiley.com|language=en-gb}}
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){{Cite web|title=Disposable Futures, The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle|url=http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100745010&|access-date=2021-01-05|website=www.citylights.com|language=EN}}
- Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (Cambridge, Polity Press: 2014) (with Julian Reid){{Cite web|title=Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously {{!}} Wiley|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Resilient+Life%3A+The+Art+of+Living+Dangerously-p-9780745671536|access-date=2021-01-05|website=Wiley.com|language=en-gb}}
Co-edited Academic Books
- When the Towers Fell: Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 (Los Angeles, LA Review of Books Press: 2022){{Cite web |title=Los Angeles Review of Books {{!}} Kindful |url=https://lareviewofbooks.kindful.com/?campaign=1149460 |access-date=2022-06-09 |website=lareviewofbooks.kindful.com}}
- Conversations on Violence: An Anthology (London, Pluto Press: 2021) (Co-edited with Adrian Parr){{Cite web|title=Conversations on Violence|url=https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745341682/conversations-on-violence|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Pluto Press|language=en-US}}
- The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation (Los Angeles, LA Review of Books Press: 2020){{Cite web|last1=Evans|first1=Brad|last2=Kehinde|last3=rews|last4=Berlant|first4=Lauren|last5=Brown|first5=Wendy|last6=Br|first6=Russell|last7=Chapman|first7=Jake|last8=Critchley|first8=Simon|last9=Dungy|first9=Camille|title=The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation|url=https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/quarantine-files-thinkers-self-isolation/|access-date=2021-07-15|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=14 April 2020 }}
- Violence: Humans in Dark Times (San Francisco, City Lights: 2018) (Co-edited with Natasha Lennard){{Cite web|title=Violence, Humans in Dark Times|url=http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100350210|access-date=2021-01-05|website=www.citylights.com|language=EN}}
- Histories of Violence: An Introduction to Post War Critical Thought (London, Zed Books: 2017) (Co-edited with Terrell Carver){{Cite web|title=Histories of Violence|url=https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/book/histories-of-violence/|access-date=2021-01-05|website=ZED Books|language=en}}
- Deleuze & Fascism: Security, War & Aesthetics (London, Routledge: 2013) (Co-edited with Julian Reid){{Cite web|title=Deleuze & Fascism: Security: War: Aesthetics|url=https://www.routledge.com/Deleuze--Fascism-Security-War-Aesthetics/Evans-Reid/p/book/9781138840485|access-date=2021-01-05|website=Routledge & CRC Press|language=en}}
Single-authored Non-Academic Books
- The Atrocity Exhibition: Life in an Age of Total Violence (Los Angeles, LA Review of Books Press: 2019){{Cite web|title=Atrocity Exhibition|url=https://larbbooks.org/product/atrocity-exhibition/|access-date=2021-01-05|website=LARB Books|language=en-US}}
Co-authored Graphic Novels
- Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking (London, New Internationalist: 2016) (with Sean Michael Wilson){{Cite book|last1=Evans|first1=Bradley|url=https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/portraits-of-violence-an-illustrated-history-of-radical-thinking|title=Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking|last2=Wilson|first2=Sean Michael|last3=Inko|first3=Null|last4=Morikawa|first4=Michiru|last5=Mackenzie|first5=Chris|last6=Thompson|first6=Carl|last7=Quach|first7=Yen|last8=Brown|first8=Robert|date=2016-10-12|publisher=New Internationalist|isbn=978-1-78026-318-2|language=English}}