Dr Robert P. Jackson

I am an Edward W. Said Fellow 2024 at the Heyman Center for the Humanities (Columbia University, NY). I am currently developing a book project on Said’s conception of ‘critical consciousness’ and its relationship with the thought of Antonio Gramsci. My areas of specialism are political theory and the history of modern political thought. My research addresses issues at the intersection of critical and postcolonial thought, in particular re-examining the role of intellectuals in modern society.

I have forthcoming articles in Interventions and Notebooks, and I am co-editor of Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks (Brill, 2020), a rich collection of innovative scholarship on Gramsci (also in paperback). I have published work in TOPOI, Theory and Event, Thesis Eleven, Gramsciana, Hegel Bulletin, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Science and Society, and the International Gramsci Journal.

Before joining Manchester Metropolitan in 2014, I lectured in European and International Studies at King’s College London, where I completed my PhD in 2013.

I co-created the Critical Theory in Hard Times network, which organised workshops on Decolonising Critical Thought (2021) and Racial Capitalism and Anti-Racist Futures (2023).

Academic and professional qualifications

• PhD European and International Studies, King’s College London
• MA Philosophy, University of Nottingham
• PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in HE

Other distinctions

Reviewer for:
Oxford University Press, Polity Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose, and Marx, Engels and Marxisms book series), Constellations: International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory,  Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy,
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography,  Science & Society, Historical Materialism, International Gramsci Journal, Academia Letters, Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi

Primary Member - Politics Research Group

Affiliate Member - Histories of RGSI (Race, Gender, Sexuality, Identity) Research Group and the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS)

Membership of professional associations

Political Studies Association (PSA), Association for Political Theory (APT),  Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought (BIAPT), Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI), International Gramsci Society (IGS)

AdvanceHE (formerly Higher Education Academy) - Fellow (FHEA)