Dr Andrew Johnson
Visiting Fellow
Career
Since 10/2022 |
Visiting Fellow, DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 138) ‘Dynamics of Security,’ Germany |
10/2021 |
Visiting Lecturer, Seattle University, United States |
06/2020 |
Research Fellow, UCSB Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, United States |
10/2013 |
Doctoral Fellow, Teaching Associate, Teaching Assistant, and PhD student, University of California Santa Barbara, United States |
09/2012 |
Professor of Philosophy, Beijing Huijia International School, China |
09/2011 |
Professor of English, Guangxi University, China |
09/2010 |
Adjunct Professor, Husson University, United States |
09/2008 |
Teaching Assistant and Master’s student, Louisiana State University, United States |
09/2005 |
Bachelor’s student, University of Maine, United States |
Current Research
My current project explores the long global history of
police institutions and how historical narratives and activist
slogans are employed by police abolitionists.
Research Interests
- Political theory
- Historical-comparative sociology
- Anthropological theory
- American political development
- Social movements
- Policing
- Globalization
- International Political Economy
- Political ideologies
- Critical university studies
Selected Publications
- Johnson, A. (forthcoming) Hegel’s Polizei. Hegel-Jahrbuch.
- Johnson A. (forthcoming) Stuart Hall. The Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science.
- Johnson A. (forthcoming) Gilles Deleuze. The Encyclopedia of Critical Political Science.
- Johnson A. (2021) Bureaucrats with Guns: Or, How We Can Abolish the Police if We Just Stop Believing in Them. Anthropological Notebooks, 27(3): 159-208. http://notebooks.drustvo-antropologov.si/Notebooks/article/view/507
- Johnson A. (2019) Ur-Fascism and Neo-Fascism. The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development, 5(1): 1-33. https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/agsjournal/vol5/iss1/2/
- Johnson A. (2019) Twilight of the Humans: Nietzsche, Dismal Politics, and the Coming Planetary Apocalypse. The Agonist: A Nietzsche Circle Journal, 7(2): 7-27. http://agonist.nietzschecircle.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Agonist-Spring-2019-Andrew-Johnson.pdf
- Johnson A. (2014) Foucault: Critical Theory of the Police in a Neoliberal Age. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 61(4): 5-29. https://www.academia.edu/222087/Foucault_Critical_Theory_of_the_Police_in_a_Neoliberal_Age
- Johnson A. (2012) On Honesty and Deceit: An Interpretation of Deleuze’s
Difference and Repetition. Philosophy Study, 2(5): 301-313.
https://www.academia.edu/1047266/On_Honesty_and_Deceit_An_Intepretation_of_Deleuzes
_Difference_and_Repetition_ - Johnson A. (2010) Viral Politics: Jacques Derrida’s reading of Auto-immunity and the political philosophy of Carl Schmitt. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing: Berlin, Germany.
- Johnson A. (2007) The End of Art or the Origin of New Art? A Heideggerian Historization of the New York City Graffiti movement, The Dialectic: The University of New Hampshire’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy 7. https://www.academia.edu/222091/The_End_of_Art_or_the_Origin_of_New_Art_A_Heideggerian _Historization_of_the_New_York_City_Graffiti_movement