Staff
Kevin Adamson
BA Hons (London), MA (Sussex), PhD (Essex)
Lecturer in Politics
Tel. +44 141 848 3244
email: kevin.adamson@uws.ac.uk
Kevin came to the University of the West of Scotland in April 2007. His research interests are focused on comparative European politics of communism and the transition, the emergence of new extreme right political strategies, and minority rights. He received his PhD in Government from the University of Essex in 2005 after following the Ideology and Discourse Analysis doctoral programme. He also holds degrees from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (University of London), and the University of Sussex. He previously taught politics at the universities of Essex, Skopje, Timisoara and Stirling. Kevin is currently working on projects on right wing extremism in Europe, Roma rights and the EU, and the political history of Romanian communism.
Publications
(2008): Report on the situation of the Roma community in Govanhill, Oxfam and UWS, forthcoming (co-authored with Lynne Poole).
(2008): ‘The Vlaams Blok, its electorate, and the ideological articulation of “Europe”‘, co-authored with Robert Johns, forthcoming in Journal of Political Ideologies vol. 13, no. 2.
(2008): ‘Europe in the ideology of Partidul România Mare and Vlaams Belang’, in Laure Neumayer, Antoine Roger, and Frédéric Zalewski, (eds.) L’Europe contestée. Espaces et enjeux des positionnements contre l’intégration européenne, Paris, Editions Michel Houdiard. (forthcoming) Co-authored with Robert Johns.
(2007): ‘Discourses of Violence and the Ideological Strategies of the Romanian Communist Party 1944-1953’, in East European Politics and Societies, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 559-587.
(2007): ‘Running after them with fruit and flowers: Roma migration to Scotland’, in Scottish Left Review, no. 42, pp. 18-19 (Co-authored with Colin Clark and Laura Cashman).
(2004): ‘The Macedonian-Albanian Political Frontier: The re-articulation of Post-Yugoslav Political Identities’ in Nations and Nationalism, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 293-311 (co-authored with Dejan Jovic).
(2001): ‘The symbolism of Sovereignty and Political Frontiers in Romanian Politics, 1944-1989’ in Critique and Humanism, vol. 12, no. 3.
(2000): ‘The construction of Romanian social democracy, 1989-1996’, in D. Howarth, A. Norval, and Y. Stavrakakis, eds. Discourse Theory and Political Analysis, Manchester University Press.
(1995): ‘The political functions of ethnic conflict: Transylvania in Romanian politics’ in M. Craciun and O. Ghitta, eds. Ethnicity and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj University Press.