Biography

David Howarth is an Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Department of Government at the University of Essex, and Co-Director of the Ideology and Discourse Analysis Programme. His main research and teaching interests are poststructuralist theories of discourse, society and politics; the empirical study of political ideologies and discourses; the theoretical relationship between space, time and politics; the interplay between politics and policy; and the intersections between identity, difference and subjectivity. His publications include Discourse (2000); Poststructuralism and After (2013); Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory (2007); The Politics of Sustainable Aviation (2013) and Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures (2023). He has also published articles on discourse analysis, democratic theory, populism, social movements, urban politics, environmental policy and protest in various journals and edited volumes.

1M Doing Discourse Analysis: Populism, Neoliberalism and Radical Democratic Politics