| 词条 | Alan Johnson (political theorist) |
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Alan Johnson is a British political theorist and activist. He is a senior research fellow at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre. Previously he was Professor of Democratic Theory and Practice at Edge Hill University. Early lifeJohnson was born in North Shields and developed as a socialist in 1979 as a volunteer at the Marxist bookshop 'Days of Hope' in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1984 Johnson helped found the Merseyside Museum of Labour History (later the Museum of Liverpool Life).[1][2] CareerFrom 1991 to 2011 Johnson was an academic at Edge Hill University in the Social Sciences. He became a reader in 2001 and professor of democratic theory and practice in 2007.[3] In 2011 Johnson left Edge Hill University and became a senior research fellow at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM).[4] Johnson is editor of BICOM's Fathom magazine.[5] Political positionsJohnson was an editor of the journals Democratiya (2005–2009) and Engage Journal, the former of which he also helped found.[6] He is a scholar of the labour movement in Iraq,[7] and is a founding member of Labour Friends of Iraq.[1] A former Trotskyist and long-term member of the Socialist Organiser Alliance,[8] researching Hal Draper,[9] Johnson is a co-author of the Euston Manifesto.[10] He was opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[1] Since 2003 he has worked with Abdullah Muhsin of the Iraqi Workers Federation.[11] Critical of the blanket labelling of advocates of military intervention against dictatorial regimes as neoconservatives in foreign policy, he calls for a "proper consideration of the social democratic antitotalitarianism of Paul Berman, Václav Havel, Adam Michnik, Ladan Boroumand, Kanan Makiya, Azar Nafisi, Bernard Kouchner, Tony Blair, or Gordon Brown" and points out that "neo-conservatives" in the Democratic Party deserve "their share of the credit" for "undermining cynical and self-defeating 'realism' and embracing democracy-promotion."[12] He is 'a long time socialist and a supporter of Palestinian statehood' and is an activist for the two states for two peoples solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.[13] Lecture disruptedIn March 2014 Johnson was interrupted by a group of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions protesters whilst arguing against a boycott of Israel by the Student Union at University of Ireland Galway.[14] Books
References1. ^1 2 {{cite web |url=http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/000015.html |title=Alan Johnson, Research and Publications Officer |author=Alan Johnson |publisher=Labour Friends of Iraq |date=18 September 2004 |dead-url=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819070009/http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/000015.html |archivedate=19 August 2007 |access-date=2 May 2010 |df=dmy-all }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Alan (political theorist)}}2. ^{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1871072.stm |title=Milburn's radical days |author=Brian Wheeler |publisher=BBC |date=13 May 2002 |accessdate=29 January 2015}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/profiles/alan-johnson |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121223003806/http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/profiles/alan-johnson |dead-url=yes |archive-date=23 December 2012 |title=Professor Alan Johnson |publisher=Edge Hill University |accessdate=13 June 2012 }} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.bicom.org.uk/about/team/ |title=Team |publisher=BICOM |accessdate=6 August 2015}} 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://fathomjournal.org/about-us/ |title=Editorial team |work=fathom |publisher=Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre |accessdate=7 November 2015}} 6. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/alanjohnson | location=London | work=Comment is Free | first=Alan | last=Johnson | date=19 March 2008 | title=Alan Johnson}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://info.edgehill.ac.uk/SPSNewsletter/article.asp?id_art=24 |title=SPS Newsletter – Iraq Book Launched in Washington DC. |work=Department of Social and Psychological Sciences |publisher=Edge Hill University |year=2006 |accessdate=6 August 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626193009/http://info.edgehill.ac.uk/SPSNewsletter/article.asp?id_art=24 |archivedate=26 June 2008 }} 8. ^https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/why-despite-everything-im-supporting-corbyn-a-reply-to-alan-johnson/, 9. ^http://histomatist.blogspot.com/2008/03/who-are-real-post-leftists.html, 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://eustonmanifesto.org/joomla/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-08-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719121059/http://www.eustonmanifesto.org/joomla/ |archivedate=19 July 2008 |df=dmy-all }} 11. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/global/2007/jun/03/alanjohnson | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=Full profile | first=Alan | last=Johnson | date=3 June 2008}} 12. ^{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jan/15/onneoconitis | location=London | work=The Guardian | title=On neoconitis | first=Alan | last=Johnson | date=15 January 2008}} 13. ^{{Cite book|title=Contemporary Left Antisemitism: 'How do we create a future for the two-state solution?'|last=Hirsh|first=David|publisher=Foreign Policy Centre|year=2012|isbn=|location=|pages=46}} 14. ^{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Alan |date=13 March 2014 |title=On Israel, the intellectuals are driving the students mad |url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alanjohnson/100263386/on-israel-the-intellectuals-are-driving-the-students-mad/|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited |accessdate=15 March 2014 }} 6 : Year of birth missing (living people)|Living people|Academics of Edge Hill University|British political theorists|British activists|British social commentators |
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