James Heartfield

A writer and lecturer and director of the development think-tank, audacity. James Heartfield is author of Creativity Gap (2005), Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy (2002) and Need and Desire in the Postmaterial Economy. He is studying the dynamic towards European integration, from the point of view of diminishing national sovereignty. He has written widely on European civil society, the "death of the Subject", and economic regeneration.

 

Books, chapters, pamphlets
'Interdependent we stand, divided we fall', response to the New Economics Foundation report on ecological debt, Spiked Online, 27 April 2006.

 

'People, not architects, make communities', and interview with David Miliband, in Manmade Modular Megastructures, edited by Ian Abley and Jonathan Schwinge, AD John Wiley, 2006

 

'A business solution for creativity, not a creativity solution for business', in Culture Vultures: Is UK arts policy damaging the Arts, edited by Munira Mirza, Policy Exchange, 2006

 

'Hegel Dispirited: the reification of the Other in Kojève, DeBeauvoir and Sartre', in Us and Them, edited by Becky Shaw and Gareth Woolam, Static, 2005

 

Creativity Gap Blueprint Broadside, May 2005

 

'Contextualising the "anti-capitalism" movement in Global Civil Society', in Gideon Baker and David Chandler (eds.), Global Civil Society: Contested futures, Routledge Advances in International Relations, 2005

 

The "Death of the Subject" Explained, Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2002
Sustaining Architecture in the Anti-Machine Age, (co-editor with Ian Abley), John Wiley Academic, 2002

 

Great Expectations: the creative industries in the New Economy, Design Agenda, London, 2000

 

Need and Desire in the Post-Material Economy, Sheffield Hallam University Press, 1998

 

'Marxism and Social Construction', in Suke Wolton (ed) Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory, Macmillan, 1996

 

Published papers
'Farewell to the City', a paper to the Rural Futures conference, 5 April 2006

 

'Herbert Girardet and the plastic concept of sustainability', Rising East, January 2006

 

'China's comprador capitalism is coming home', Review of Radical Political Economy, June 2005

 

'Branding over the cracks', Critique 35, June 2004

 

'Capitalism and anti-Capitalism', interventions, Vol. 5 (2), 2003

 

'You are not a White Woman!'- Apolosi Nawai, the Fiji Produce Agency and the Trial of Stella Spencer in Fiji, 1915 scandal and rebellion in colonial Fiji, in the Journal of Pacific History, Volume 38, Number 1 / June 2003

 

'The economy of time', Cultural Trends 43&44

 

Hegel Dispirited the reification of the Other in Kojève, DeBeauvoir and Sartre, for Liverpool's Static arts organisation

 

'The Dark Races Against the Light'- Official Reaction to the 1959 Fiji Riots Journal of Pacific History, Volume 37, Number 1/June 01, 2002.

 

There is No Masculinity Crisis Genders Online Journal

 

'The Politics of Food: Two cheers for Agri-business', Review of Radical Political Economy, June 2000