Tom Nairn

Tom Nairn is a researcher at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, concerned with nationalism and the political and cultural effects of globalisation.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Sound of Thunder: The Miners’ Strike · 8 October 2009

  • Marching to the Fault Line: The 1984 Miners’ Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain by Francis Beckett and David Hencke
  • Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath edited by Granville Williams

• Managed by Ghouls: Unionism’s Graveyard · 30 April 2009

  • Union and Unionisms: Political Thought in Scotland, 1500-2000 by Colin Kidd

• Where’s the omelette?: Patrick Wright · 23 October 2008

  • Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War by Patrick Wright

• Diary: the Australian elections · 13 December 2007

• The Enabling Boundary: We’re All Petit Bourgeois Now · 18 October 2007

  • What Should the Left Propose? by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  • The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
  • Une brève histoire de l’avenir by Jacques Attali

• History’s Postman: the Jewishness of Karl Marx · 26 January 2006

  • Karl Marx ou l’esprit du monde by Jacques Attali

• Democratic Warming: The Upstaging of the G8 · 4 August 2005

• Make for the Boondocks challenges Hardt and Negri · 5 May 2005

  • Multitude by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

• Diary: Australian Blues · 18 November 2004

• Out of the Cage: popping the bubble of American supremacy · 24 June 2004

  • After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order by Emmanuel Todd, translated by C. Jon Delogu
  • Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power by George Soros

• The Departed Spirit · 30 October 1997

• Ghosts in the Palace · 24 April 1997

• At the Fairground · 20 March 1997

  • Republics, Nations and Tribes by Martin Thom

• Cleaning Up · 3 October 1996

  • The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan

• Diary · 9 May 1996

• Wanting to Be Special · 21 March 1996

  • The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science by Marek Kohn

• Upper and Lower Cases · 24 August 1995

  • A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707 edited by John Robertson
  • The Autonomy of Modern Scotland by Lindsay Paterson

• On the Threshold · 23 March 1995

  • Frameworks for the Future
  • Northern Ireland: The Choice by Kevin Boyle and Tom Hadden

• What nations are for · 8 September 1994

  • The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994 by Edward Said
  • Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures by Edward Said

• It’s a Knock-Out · 27 May 1993

  • The Spirit of the Age: An Account of Our Times by David Selbourne

• Demonising Nationalism · 25 February 1993

• Tom Nairn continues his examination of recent attempts to find in Gramsci’s writings a basis for left-wing opposition to Communism · 17 July 1980

• Euro-Gramscism · 3 July 1980

  • Gramsci and Marxist Theory edited by Chantal Mouffe
  • Gramsci and the State by Christine Buci-Glucksmann
  • Gramsci’s Politics by Anne Showstack Sassoon

• Mrs Thatcher’s Spengler · 24 January 1980

  • An Unfinished History of the World by Hugh Thomas

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