Jeremy Lane

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Teaching Summary

My teaching tends to focus on the culture, society and politics of post-war France. hence I teach on the first-year Contemporary France modules, deliver a module on French New Wave cinema at second… read more

Research Summary

My current research pursues two apparently quite distinct but, in fact, closely related strands. The first strand looks into the political, cultural, and social effects of contemporary… read more

Recent Publications

• JEREMY F. LANE, 2024. Rancière's Counter-sociology.: Politics, History, Education Palgrave MacMillan.
• 2023. ‘Laclau and Mouffe, Bourdieu, neo-liberalism and the mass media’. In: PIOTR CAP, ed., Handbook of Political Discourse Edward Elgar. 93-107
• 2022. The anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French fiction and film French Cultural Studies. 34(1), 49-61
• 2022. From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’ Modern and Contemporary France.

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My teaching tends to focus on the culture, society and politics of post-war France. hence I teach on the first-year Contemporary France modules, deliver a module on French New Wave cinema at second year, and a year-long module on Ethnicity, Citizenship, and National Identity in Post-war France in final year.

I also teach French Language, currently on the core final-year language module.

I have taught sessions on Marxist Literary Theory on the French MA, as well as contributing seminars on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Baudrillard on the MA in Critical Theory.

Current Research

My current research pursues two apparently quite distinct but, in fact, closely related strands. The first strand looks into the political, cultural, and social effects of contemporary transformations in the French workplace. In this context, I have become interested in the work of André Gorz and of the group of thinkers collected around the French journal Multitudes. In September 2008, I co-organised an international conference on this topic, with my colleague John Marks, entitled Work in Postfordist France. A selection of papers from that conference was published as a special number of the journal Modern and Contemporary France, co-edited by John Marks and myself. In April 2016, I co-organised a second conference on this topic with Professor Sarah Waters (Leeds University). A selection of papers from that conference was published in August 2018, in a further special number of Modern & Contemporary France, which I co-edited with Professor Waters. In 2020, I published a book that represents the culmination of my work in this area: Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France (Liverpool University Press).

The second strand of research explores the work of Jacques Rancière and the bases of his critique of the social sciences. This has led to the publication of a series of book chapters and articles in journals such as Textual Practice and Nottingham French Studies. This research has culminated in the publication of the book: Rancière's Counter-sociology. Politics, History, Education (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)..

Past Research

My past research also pursued two broad strands.

My PhD thesis focused on the work of the French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu, attempting to contextualise his output in terms both of the particular philosophical and sociological traditions on which he drew and of the developments in French and Algerian society which his work analysed. My thesis was subsequently published as a monograph by Pluto Press in 2000. A second monograph, published by Routledge in 2006, looked into the practical implications and theoretical foundations of Bourdieu's political interventions, with particular reference to his outspoken criticisms of neo-liberal globalisation. By 2006, I had had quite enough of Bourdieu and was ready to move onto pastures new, namely...

An analysis of the reception of jazz in the French-speaking world between 1918 and 1945. This focused on two different but interrelated corpuses of works. The first corpus comprises the series of works of serious jazz criticism published in French over that period. The second corpus is made up of the poems and prose writings of those French intellectuals of colour who first encountered jazz in interwar Paris and who attempted to articulate the music to their various anti-racist and anti-imperialist agendas. This is the subject of my third monograph, entitled Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism: music, "race", and intellectuals in France, 1918-1945. The book was published by the University of Michigan Press in their 'Jazz Perspectives' Series in July 2013.

• JEREMY F. LANE, 2024. Rancière's Counter-sociology.: Politics, History, Education Palgrave MacMillan.
• 2023. ‘Laclau and Mouffe, Bourdieu, neo-liberalism and the mass media’. In: PIOTR CAP, ed., Handbook of Political Discourse Edward Elgar. 93-107
• 2022. The anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French fiction and film French Cultural Studies. 34(1), 49-61
• 2022. From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’ Modern and Contemporary France.
• 2020. Rancière's 'literary animals':: the conditions of possibility of 'political subjectivation' Textual Practice.
• 2020. Rouge-Brun or counter-revolutionary?: Another look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics Modern Language Review. 115, 63-82
• 2020. Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France Liverpool University Press.
• JEREMY F. LANE, 2019. Neither 'Sociologist' nor 'Republican':the 'singularity' of Rancière's intervention in French education debates. In: STEPHEN CROWDEN AND DAVID RIDLEY, ed., The Practice of Equality: Jacques Rancière and Critical Pedagogy Peter Lang. 67-88
• 2018. From 'moule' to 'modulation': logics of Deleuzean 'control' in recent reforms to French labour law' Modern and Contemporary France. 26(3), 245-260
• JEREMY F. LANE and SARAH WATERS, eds., 2018. Work in Crisis: Special no. of Modern & Contemporary France, vol.26, no.3, August
• JEREMY F. LANE and SARAH WATERS, 2018. Introduction: Work in Crisis: film, fiction and theory Modern and Contemporary France. 26(3), 225-232
• 2016. 'Emancipation from Work or Emancipation through Work? ': Aesthetics of Work and Idleness in Recent French Thought' Nottingham French Studies: special no. 'The Politics of Idleness'. 55(1), 79-95
• 2015. ‘“Come, you spirits … unsex me!” Representations of the Female Executive in Recent French Film & Fiction’ Modern & Contemporary France. 23(4), 511-528
• 2015. ‘Parody of Political Correctness or Allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A Second Look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001)’ French Cultural Studies. 26(4), 404-414
• LANE, J.F., 2013. Jazz and machine-age imperialism: music, "race", and intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 University of Michigan Press.
• JEREMY F. LANE, 2013. Performing theory, theorising performance.: Jacques Derrida and Ornette Coleman at the Parc de la Villette French Cultural Studies. 24(3), 319-330
• LANE, J.F., 2013. Rancière's anti-Platonism: equality, the 'Orphan Letter' and the problematic of the social sciences. In: DAVIS, O., ed., Rancière now: current perspectives on Jacques Rancière Polity. 28-46
• LANE, J.F., 2013. A 'Disagreement' over Republican Citizenship? The Aesthetics and Politics of Moslem Opposition to the French Headscarf Law: ICEMiC Working Paper 13.10 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/icemic/w-papers.aspx.
• JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. From 'Amor fati' to 'disgust': Affect, habitus and class identity in Didier Eribon's Retour à Reims French Cultural Studies. 23(2), 127-140
• LANE, J.F., 2012. Between repression and anamnesis: Pierre Bourdieu and the vicissitudes of literary form Paragraph. 35(1), 66-82
• JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. Leaving the South: Frantz Fanon, modern jazz, and the rejection of négritude. In: CELIA BRITTON & MARTIN MUNRO, ed., American Creoles: the Francophone Caribbean & the American South Liverpool University Press. 129-146
• JEREMY F. LANE, 2012. Bourdieu's Politics: Problems and Possibilities, reprinted in new paperback edition Routledge.
• LANE, J.F., 2012. Between repression and anamnesis: Pierre Bourdieu and the vicissitudes of literary form. In: JEREMY AHEARNE & JOHN SPELLER, AHEARNE, J. and SPELLER, J., eds., Bourdieu and the literary field Edinburgh University Press. 66-82
• LANE, J.F., 2011. Disaffection in the post-Fordist workplace: figurations of immaterial labour in recent French theory and literature Modern & Contemporary France. 19(4), 495-509
• LANE, J.F. and MARKS, J., eds., 2011. Figurations of work in Post-Fordist France: Modern & Contemporary France, 19(4) Routledge.
• LANE, J.F., 2007. Ferhat Abbas, Vichy's National Revolution and the Memory of the Royaume arabe L’Esprit Créateur [Special issue: France's Colonies during World War Two]. 47(1), 19-31
• LANE, J.F., 2007. Rythme de travail, rythmes de jazz: jazz, primitivism and machinisme in inter-war France Atlantic Studies. 4(1), 103-116
• LANE, J.F., 2007. Universal Ideals in a Multicultural Age: Pierre Bourdieu's Recent Theory and Politics. In: ERMARTH, E, ed., Re-writing democracy: : cultural politics in postmodernity Aldershot: Ashagte Publishing. 100-115
• LANE, J.F., 2007. Deleuze In and Out of this World Paragraph. 30(2), 109-116
• LANE, J.F., 2006. Bourdieu's politics: problems and possibilities London: Routledge.
• LANE, J.F., 2006. Towards a Poetics of Consumerism: Gaston Bachelard's `Material Imagination' and Narratives of Post-War Modernisation French Cultural Studies. VOL 17(NUMB 1), 19-34
• LANE, J.F., 2005. When Does Art Become Art? Assessing Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Artistic Fields. In: INGLIS, D. and HUGHSON, J., eds., Sociology of Art: ways of seeing Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 30-42
• LANE, J.F., 2005. Jazz as Habitus: Discourses of Class and Ethnicity in Hugues Panassie's Le Jazz Hot (1934) Nottingham French Studies. VOL 44(NUMB 3), 40-53
• LANE, J.F., 2004. 'Un étrange retournement'? Pierre Bourdieu and the French Republican Tradition. In: ROBBINS, D, ed., Pierre Bourdieu volume 2. London: Sage. 53-71
• LANE, J.F., 2004. Pierre Bourdieu's Forgotten Aesthetic: The Politics and Poetics of Practice Paragraph. VOL 27(PART 3), 82-99
• LANE, J.F., 2003. Neo-liberalism as "imposition" and "invasion": problems in Bourdieu's politics French Cultural Studies. vol.14(part 3, no. 42), 323-335
• LANE, J.F., 2002. The Stain, The Impotent Gaze and the Theft of jouissance: Towards a Zizekian Reading of Robbe-Grillet's La Jalousie French Studies. 56(2), 193-206
• LANE, J.F., 2002. "La Femme adultère" d'Albert Camus Vives Lettres. 13, 187-203
• LANE, J.F., 2001. The politics and economics of Pierre Bourdieu Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 9(PART 1), 92-94
• LANE, J.F., 2000. Pierre Bourdieu : a critical introduction London : Pluto Press.
• LANE, J.F., 2000. Review of Habermas,J, L'Int?gration r?publicaine: essais de th?orie politique (1998) Modern and Contemporary France. 8(1), 131-132
• LANE, J.F., 2000. Pierre Bourdieu and Hans Haacke: art, autonomy and the market in the era of late capitalism Strathclyde Modern Language Studies. 5, 110-131
• LANE, J.F., 2000. The French Contribution to Contemporary Cultural Analysis. In: KIDD, W. and REYNOLDS, S., eds., Contemporary French Cultural Studies London : Edward Arnold. 287-299
• LANE, J.F., 1999. La Bourdieumania fait des ravages dans les medias Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 7(NUMBER 1), 105-108
• LANE, J.F., 1999. Review of Pinto,L, Pierre Bourdieu et la théorie du monde social (1999) Modern and Contemporary France. 7(4), 545
• LANE, J.F., 1999. Review of Bourdieu,P, Les Règles de l'art: genèse et structure du champ littéraire (1999, 2e édition revue et corrigée) Modern and Contemporary France. 7(4), 543
• LANE, J.F., 1999. Pierre Bourdieu and the Chronotopes of "Post-Theory". In: MACQUILLAN, M., MACDONALD, G., PURVES, R. and THOMPSON,S., eds., Post-Theory: new directions in Criticism Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. 89-102
• LANE, J.F., 1999. 'Un etrange retournement'? Pierre Bourdieu and the French republican tradition Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 7(NUMBER 4), 457-470
• LANE, J.F., 1997. Sociology as Dialogics: M M Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu and the Critique of Formalist Aesthetics. In: Face to Face Bakhtin in Russia and the West Sheffield Academic Press Ltd, Sheffield, UK. 120-147
• LANE, J., 1997. `Domestiquer l'exotique... exotiser le domestique': the symbiosis of ethnology and sociology in the work of Pierre Bourdieu Modern and Contemporary France. VOL 5(NUMBER 4), 445-456
• From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’ Modern & Contemporary France.