Welcome
Patrick Joyce writes about the history of power and social relations in Britain and elsewhere from the 18th century onwards. He works chiefly on the state, the city, and the nature of freedom and liberalism down to contemporary times. This website gives you information about who he is, and about his past, current and future work. Some of this work is available without registration and some with.
Welcome to this website. I am a historian who is also interested in the social sciences. I am an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006 to the present. I was a Visiting Professor of History, University of California Berkeley, 2009, and will be a Fernand Braudel Fellow in History at the European University Institute in Florence in 2011. The principal areas of academic work I am interested in are: freedom and liberalism; the nature of the state; power and materiality; rethinking British history; history of London and the history of the rural Irish.
“For over thirty years Patrick Joyce has challenged orthodoxies in history and the social sciences. Through his engagements with cultural Marxism, the linguistic turn and Foucault’s work on governmentality, his has been a consistently radical voice in the successive debates over the future and politics of social and cultural history since the later 1970s. While his research has ranged widely from the politics of class in Victorian England to the formation of the modern self, it has always shown a preoccupation with liberalism, modernity and the discipline of history. Although his work has concentrated on Britain, its influence has registered widely, not only in Britain and North America, but across much of the world.”
Conference in honour of Patrick Joyce, Manchester, March 2008
Conference details available on this site.
Conference book, see publications
Photo credits: Top: Roger Mayne, Footballer Jumping, Sunny Brindley Road, Harrow Road 1957
Above: Josef Koudelka Ireland 1972:
The Rule of Freedom
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Patrick Joyce
