Publications



Books

Intellectual Radicalism after 1989. Crisis and Re-Orientations in the British and the American Left. Bielefeld: transcript, 2016. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/57/c7/eb/oa9783839434185.pdf

Antirassismus in der britischen Labour Party. Konzepte und Kontroversen in den achtziger Jahren. (Bremer Beiträge zur Literatur- und Ideengeschichte Bd. 32, Ed. Thomas Metscher and Wolfgang Beutin), Frankfurt, New York: Lang, 2000.



Editions

with Hanne Bolze and Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Eds.). The Ecological Crisis in Britain. Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No 106, 2022. https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/iaa-elit/research-projects/hard-times/hard-times-106-1

with Claus-Ulrich Viol (Ed.). '1968' in Britain. Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, No. 64, 2020. https://moving-the-social.ub.rub.de/index.php/MTS/issue/view/192

with Luke Martell (Ed.). The State of the Left. Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 103, 2019. https://hard-times-magazine.org/index.php/Hardtimes/issue/view/3

with Georgia Christinidis and Jessica Fischer (Eds.). Interesting Times: Brexit - Soft, Hard, White, Red, Blue...? Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 100,  2016.

with Christian Schmitt-Kilb (Ed.). Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Britain. Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 22 No. 1, 2015.

with Jana Gohrisch (Ed.). Post-multicultural Britain. Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift,  No. 96, 2014.

with André Kaiser (Ed.). New Labour und die Modernisierung Großbritanniens. Augsburg: Wissner, 2006.




Articles

"The Labour Party's Ideas of the Working Class: From Affluent Society to Austerity", Anglistik, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2023, 23-36. https://angl.winter-verlag.de/data/article/11452/pdf/92301005.pdf

"The End of Capitalism and the End of Democracy: Dystopian and Critical Utopian Political Economies in an Age of Austerity" in: Merle Tönnies, Eckart Voigts (Eds.): Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre. Berlin: de Gruyter 2022, 117-131. 

"Beyond Birmingham: Four Comments on 'How Cultural Studies Came to Germany'", Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol 28, No. 1, 2021, 139-144.

"Party -- Protest -- Activism: Lessons from Syriza and Labour" in: Mandy Beck, Cecile Sandten, Daniel Ziesche (Eds.): Protest: Forms, Dynamics, Functions. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2021, 13-26.

"The Dakota Access Pipeline, Indigenous Studies and Political Economy", Anglistik, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2020, 17-30. https://angl.winter-verlag.de/data/article/9763/pdf/92003005.pdf

"Political Ecology and British Marxism" in: Brendan Prendiville, David Haigron (Eds.): Political Ecology and Environmentalism in Britain. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2020, 111-123.

"Corbynism, Hegemony, and Us", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 104, 2020, 8-16. https://hard-times-magazine.org/index.php/Hardtimes/article/view/81/55

"Migrationsbewegungen und Migrationspolitik" in: Roland Sturm (Ed.): Länderbericht Großbritannien. Vierte Auflage, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung 2019, 180-199.

"Populism in the Social Sciences", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 101, 2018, 12-14. https://hard-times-magazine.org/index.php/Hardtimes/article/view/5/4

"Against 'Populism': Protest and Power in a Postpolitical Age" in: Cecile Sandten et al. (Eds.): Crisis, Risks and New Regionalisms in Europe: Emergency Diasopras and Borderlands. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag 2017, 47-60.

"Would Britain be More Democratic If It Became a Republic?" in: Anette Pankratz, Claus-Ulrich Viol (Eds.): (Un)Making the Monarchy. Anglistik & Englischunterricht, No. 84, 2017, 227-243.

"Partei oder Bewegung? Labour, Corbyn und die britische Linke", INDES: Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft. 1917 bis 2017: Hundert Jahre Links, No. 4, 2016, 88-97.

"Beyond Parochialism or Beyond Democracy? Euroscepticism and the British Left", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 100, 2016, 25-31.

"In Need of a Heart Transplant? The Chances of Corbynism", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 98, 2015, 41-43.

 "Politisches Handeln in multiethnischen Gesellschaften und das Erbe der 1980er Jahre: Beispiel Großbritannien", Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Vol. 65, No. 46, 2015, 31-37.

"On Tony Benn", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 96, 2014, 58-61.

"Is Poverty the ‘New Black’? The Class Dimension of ‘Nation’ in Contemporary British and Irish Political Discourse", Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2014, 63-78.

"Der kurze Frühling des britischen Multikulturalismus" in: Gabriele Metzler, Sebastian Klöß, Reet Tamme (Eds.): Repräsentationsformen des Anderen. Migranten in Westeuropa und den USA im 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus, 2013, 35-54.

"Locating the Political in Cultural Studies", Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2013, 11-27.

"Street Views: Straßen, der Spatial Turn und gesellschaftliche Wandlungsprozesse in Großbritannien" in: Heidrun Alzheimer et al. (Eds.): Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie: Großbritannien. Dritte Folge, Nr. 7, Paderborn: Schöningh, 2012, 73-88.

"Social Criticism in Britain and the United States: Combining Comparative Politics, Political Sociology and Cultural Studies in a Course for Advanced Students" in: Gabriele Linke, (Ed.): Teaching Cultural Studies: Methods – Matters – Models, Anglistik & Englischunterricht, No. 76, 2011, 157-174.

"Post-Communism, Radicalism and the Intellectual Left. A Comparative Approach", FIAR. Forum for Inter-American Research: Tracing the Americas, Vol. 3 No. 1, Tracing the Americas, 2010, http://interamericaonline.org/volume-3-1/berg/.

"Remembering John Saville", Hard Times. Deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 86, 2009, 44-45.

"Teaching the North. Suggestions for an Interdisciplinary Area Studies Course" in: Anna Kinovicovaet al. (Eds.): Challenges in English Language Teaching III. Usti nad Labem: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyne, 2009, 5-14.

"Boundaries, Nations, Diasporars. Black Atlantic Perspectives" in: Vladimir Trendafilov, Irena Vassileva (Eds.): Boundaries, Boundary Crossing, Cross-Boundary Transfer. Blagoevgrad: South Western University Neofit Rilski, 2009, 268-277.

"Black Diasporas in the Anglosphere: Reflections on Cultural Boundaries" in: Anton Kirchhofer, Jutta Schwarzkopf (Eds.): The Workings of the Anglosphere. Contributions to the Study of British and US-American Cultures, presented to Richard Stinshoff . Trier: Wisenschaftlicher Verlag, 2009, 168-178.

"British Muslims, Multiculturalism, and War" in: Gabriele Linke, Holger Rossow (Eds.): Rhetoric and Representation: the British at War. Anglistik & Englischunterricht, No. 70, 2007, 203-216.

"Intellectual Radicalism after 1989: Theoretical and Political Discussions in a British and an American Journal", Socialist History Journal 30. 1956 and the New Left, 2007, 43-59.

"Einwanderung und multikulturelle Gesellschaft" in: Hans Kastendiek, Roland Sturm (Eds.): Länderbericht Großbritannien. Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kultur. Dritte völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2006, 250-272.

"'Britisch oder Muslimisch'? Die Integrationsdebatte in Großbritannien", Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, No. 4, 2006, 483-491. https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2006/april/britisch-oder-muslimisch

with Emelda Ngufor Samba. "African Popular Theatre in Diasporas: Racism and Identity" in: Anne Schröder (Ed.): Crossing Borders. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Africa. Münster: Lit, 2004, 215-232.

"Black Scousers. The Long Presence of British Africans in Liverpool" in: Anne Schröder (Ed.): Crossing Borders. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Africa. Münster: Lit, 2004, 183-196.

with Hans Kastendiek. "Kultur- und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Großbritannienstudien: Plädoyer für eine interdisziplinäre Anglistik" in: Bernhard Klein, Jürgen Kramer (Eds.): Kulturwissenschaften in der Anglistik. Eine Standortbestimmung. Kulturwissenschaften in der Anglistik. Bochum: 2003.

"British/Cultural Studies: Attempts at Understanding another Nation State", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 75, 2003, 24-30.

"Multiculturalism and Racism in Blair’s Britain" in: Merle Tönnies (Ed.): Britain under Blair. Anglistik & Englischunterricht, No. 65, 2003, 33-48.

"British/Cultural Studies ‘Made in Germany’" in: Stefan Herbrechter (Ed.): Cultural Studies: Interdisciplinarity and Translation. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2002, 239-249.

"British/Cultural Studies Made in Germany. Attempts at Understanding another Nation State", Journal of European Area Studies. Vol. 9 No. 2, 2001, 233-242.

"Postcolonial Encounters in British Studies. The Example of Asian Political Participation" in: Bernhard Klein, Jürgen Kramer (Eds.): Common Ground? Crossovers between Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2001, 153-166.

"The Labour Party and the Politics of Anti-Racism in the North West: The Cases of Manchester and Liverpool", North West Labour History. Journal of the North West Labour History Group: Labour and Labouring in Liverpool, No. 25, 2000/2001, 15-24.

"The 1980s Labour Party and the Black Sections Debate" in: Ulrike Borgmann (Ed.): From Empire to Multicultural Society. Cultural and Institutional Change in Britain. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1999, 83-98.



Politics Column (2005-2010) for Hard Times. Deutsch-Englische Zeitschrift

"If Voting Changed Anything – Would It Be Abolished?", No. 87, 2010, 59-61.

"Nukes, Subs, Money, Peace: Happy Birthday, CND!", No. 86, 2009, 48-50.

"Anti-Social Behaviour and the Politics of Pest Control", No. 85, 2009, 45-47.

"Monies, Mondays, Markets, Marx", No. 84, 2008, 42-44.

"Greening the Tiger?", No. 83, 2008, 53-55.

"The Chancellor Is Dead, Long Live the PM. Or: Who Wags the Dog?", No. 82, 2007, 49-51.

"Fossil Fools and Eco-Warriors”, No. 81, 2007, 50-53.

"Zwischen Kriegsprotest und Big Brother Container: Die Linke, multiple politische Identitäten und Respect", No. 80, 2006, 52-54.

"Fags, Booze, and Politics", No. 79, 2006, 43-45.

"'A Lot Done, a Lot (Still) to Do?' Britain after Eight Years of New Labour", No. 78, 2005, 77-79.



Interviews

"'Let's Take Everybody Along, Let's Improve Well-being and Stop Focusing on Growth': An Interview with Rob Nunney, Green Party Councillor in Manchester", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 106, 2022, 79-90.

"'The EU Maintains that it Supports Subsidiarity, yet there was Little of that on Show': Questions to Philip B. Whyman on British Politics and the British Economy beyond Brexit", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 104, 2020, 33-38. https://hard-times-magazine.org/index.php/Hardtimes/article/view/83/57

"'Humanity's Generosity and Internationalism Must Be Reawakened': Questions to Nina Power, Academic and Political Activist", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 100, 2016, 53-56.

"'The Tories Protect Their Own Class': Questions to Dave Green, National Office of the Fire Brigades Union", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 98, 2015, 12-13.

"The State of Post-multicultural Britain: Interview with Frances Webber and Jenny Bourne, Institute of Race Relations", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 96, 2014, 8-10.

"'Bye-bye Elizabeth, Hello Ms. Windsor!’ A Hard Times Interview with Sophia Deboick and Emily Robinson”, Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 92, December 2012, 54-57.

"10 Years of Blair/New Labour: Questions to John Nicholson, Socialist Unity Activist and Anti-Deportation Campaigner", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 82, December 2007, 19-21.

"10 Years of Blair/New Labour: Questions to Rae Street, CND Activist", Hard Times: deutsch-englische Zeitschrift, No. 82, December 2007, 23-25.