John Kurt Jacobsen
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John Kurt Jacobson |
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Major Areas of Interest: |
- International Relations - Science, Technology, and Politics - Psychology and Politics |
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Selected Publications: |
- Pacification and its Discontents (Prickly Paradigm, 2010) |
| E-Mail: | jkjacobs@uchicago.edu |
| Phone: | (773) 728-1299 |
| Office: | Judd Hall 124 (mail only) |
| Office hours: | By appointment only |
John Kurt Jacobsen is associate (formerly, research associate) in the Program on International Politics, Economics and Security (PIPES) since the mid-1980s. He has held visiting posts at the Centre of the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London, the London School of Economics, Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rutgers University and the University of Chicago. In addition to selected publication above, he is author of Chasing Progress in the Irish Republic (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Dead Reckonings: Ideas, Interests and Politics in the 'Information Age' (Humanities Press 1997), Technical Fouls: Democratic Dilemmas and Technological Change (Westview Press, 2000), Maverick Voices (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), No Clean Hands (Ushba Press, 2006), and Parables of Permanent War (Lexington Press, 2011),
His scholarly interests span science and technology studies, psychology and politics, political economy and international relations. He published articles in the British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Comparative Politics, Harvard International Review, Dissent, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Psychoanalytic Review, New Political Science, Free Associations, Critical Sociology, L'Economie Politique, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and other journals, His journalism has appeared regularly and irregularly in the Guardian, The Observer, Le Monde Diplomatique, Economic and Political Weekly, The Independent (UK), Irish Sunday Tribune, Irish Times, Dawn, The Statesman, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, New Statesman & Society and numerous other outlets.
He currently is working with John A. Kelly of the Anthropology Department on Misplaced Faith : The Social Sciences at War for Yale University Press and is co-editing, with John A. Kelly and Marston Morgan, New World Ordering: American Social Sciences During the Pax Americana (Yale University Press, forthcoming). He is book review editor at Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. He is also at work on a biography and is a documentary filmmaker.
