Rhian E. Jones
Rhian E. Jones writes on history, politics, popular culture and the places where they intersect. She is co-editor of Red Pepper and writes for Tribune magazine. Her books include Clampdown: Pop-Cultural Wars on Class and Gender (zer0, 2013); Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest (University of Wales Press, 2015); Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible (Repeater, 2017) and the anthology of women’s music writing Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Repeater, 2017) and Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too (Repeater, 2021).
Twitter: @rhianejones
Articles by Rhian E. Jones:
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Affirmations: Les Misérables
The musical Les Mis often serves as a shorthand for suburban ghastliness and conservatism, yet its most obvious signifiers relate to a doomed popular uprising. How to reconcile this?
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Discussing Johnsonism
What can we learn from Johnson’s spell as Mayor of London? What are the ruling class strategies of the Johnson project? How does it stand in an international context?
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What is Johnson?/What is Johnsonism?
Boris Johnson enthusiastically embraces a style of politics of a pre-democratic age, and repurposes it for an increasingly post-democratic one.
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Remembering and Rebuilding Socialist Culture: A talk given at The World Transformed
How collectivism, mutual aid and political education formed a fundamental part of working-class community and culture.
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The Defiance of Durham
The achievements of mining communities and unions are celebrated in spite of the conditions in which they arose, not because of them, and this heritage also fuels today's struggles.
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“The system needs to be fixed, not the people”: an interview with Collective Encounters Theatre
Can the arts address ordinary people’s experiences of political, social and cultural marginalisation, and redress media sensationalism of working-class lives?
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From Revolting Housewives to Big Problems: Women, Class and Politics
To claim that working-class women don't do politics is to overlook past and present experience of how, and what happens when, they do.
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Editors' Selection 2018
Some of our editors' favourite pieces we've published in 2018
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On Peterloo, poetry, and the politics of protest history
History disproves the idea that political awareness, activism and culture are beyond the grasp of ‘ordinary’ people.
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The Age of Authentocracy
Authentocrats is a staging-post in cultural criticism post Corbyn and post post-politics, where it's valid to talk directly about politics and left-populism without being deemed passé.
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Conspiracy Theory is now Conspiracy Fact: Interview with Morag Livingstone on her film "Belonging"
Belonging: The Truth Behind the Headlines is a new documentary by Morag Livingstone.