
Thematic list of Jonathan Hearn’s Publications
This list provides a record of my publications by broad theme: Power, Nationalism and National Identity, Competition, Scotland, Civil Society, Liberal Society, Scottish Enlightenment, Other,
(Individual items are sometimes repeated under multiple applicable themes. M = monograph, EV = edited volume, A = article, C = chapter, R = report.)
Power
C: ‘Power’ 8000-word article for Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, William Outhwaite and Stephen Turner, eds. 2 vols. Sage. 2018.
C: ‘Power’ 7265-word article for Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, Bryan S. Turner, Editor-in-Chief. 2017.
A: ‘Heinrich Popitz’s Phenomonology of Power’, International Political Anthropology, 10(2). Extended review as part of group review marking English translation of Popitz’s book. 2017.
C: ‘Vox Populi: Nationalism, Globalization and the Balance of Power in the Making of Brexit’, in Brexit: Sociological Responses, W. Outhwaite (ed.), London and New York: Anthem Press, pp. 19-30. 2017.
C: ‘Power and Economics’, with Steven Lukes, in R. Skidelsky and N. Craig (eds), Who Runs the Economy?, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 17-29. 2016.
EV: Power and Liberal Society. Themed issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No. 275, 1/2016.
A: ‘Inequality, liberal society, and the balance of power’, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No. 275, 1/2016, pp. 109-128. 2016.
A: ‘On the social evolution of power to/over’, Journal of Political Power, 7(2): 175-191. 2014.

M: Theorizing Power, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012.
A: ‘The Strength of Weak Legitimacy: a cultural analysis of legitimacy in capitalist, liberal, democratic nation-states’, Journal of Political Power 4(2): 199-216. 2011.
C:‘Domination’, article in Sage Encyclopedia of Power, K. Dowding, (ed). London: Sage. Pp. 203-206. 2011.
A: ‘What’s Wrong with Domination?’, Journal of Power 1(1): 37-49. 2008.
Nationalism and National Identity
C: ‘City and countryside in the imagining of nations’. In Pospěch P, Fuglestad EM, Figueiredo E, (eds), Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity.London: Routledge. (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning). 2021.
A: ‘Theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of banal and everyday nationalism’, with Marco Antonsich, Nations and Nationalism 24(3): 594-605. 2018.
A: ‘Power, Culture, Identity and the work of Anthony Smith’, Nations and Nationalism 24(2): 286-291. Contribution to special section in memory of Smith. 2018.

M: Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector: The path to economic crisis in Scotland. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2017
A: ‘Strong and Weak Civic Identity, and the Management of Conflict in Liberal Societies’, in M. Antonsich, E. Mavroudi & S. Mihelj (eds), ‘Building inclusive nations in the age of migration’, comment section of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 24(2): 156-76. 2017.
C: ‘Vox Populi: Nationalism, Globalization and the Balance of Power in the Making of Brexit’, in Brexit: Sociological Responses, W. Outhwaite (ed.), London and New York: Anthem Press, pp. 19-30. 2017.
A: Contribution to ‘Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities: a symposium’(my contribution on his impact on sociology). Nations and Nationalism 22(4): 625-659. 2016.
C: ‘Hobsbawm, Eric J.’ and ‘Anderson, Benedict’, short entries for Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, John Stone, Anthony Smith, et al, eds. 5 vols. Wiley-Blackwell. 2016.
A: ‘Demos before Democracy: Ideas of Nation and Society in Adam Smith’ Journal of Classical Sociology, 15(4): 396-414. 2015.
A: ‘Nationalism and Globalization: Challenging Assumptions’, The SAIS Review of International Affairs, 35(2): 5-11. 2015.
C: ‘Competition as Ritual and the Legitimation of the Liberal Nation State’ in E. Woods and R. Tsang (eds), the Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building: Ritual and Performance in the Forging of Nations, London: Routledge, pp. 68-83. 2014.
A: ‘Opening remarks: Debate on Bernard Yack’s book Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community’, Nations and Nationalism, 20(3): 395-397. 2014.
EV: Nationalism and Biography: European Perspectives. Themed Issue of Humanities Research, Vol XIX, No. 1, Co-edited with Christian Wicke. 2013.
A: ‘Nationalism, Biography and the Ecology of Identity’, Humanities Research, Vol XIX, No. 1, pp. 5-22. 2013.
A: Contribution to: ‘Seventh nations and nationalism debate: Joep Leerssen’s National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History’, Nations and Nationalism 19(3): 411-16. 2013.
C: ‘Global Crisis, National Blame’ in Nations and Globalisation: Conflicting or Complimentary? D. Halikiopoulou and S. Vasilopoulou, (eds), Routledge. Pp. 121-136. 2011.
A: ‘The Origins of Modern Nationalism in the North Atlantic Interaction Sphere’, Sociological Research Online 14:5. 2009.
C: ‘Small Fortunes: Nationalism, Capitalism and Changing Identities’, in National Identity, Nationalism and Constitutional Change (F. Bechhofer and D. McCrone, eds) London: Palgrave MacMillan. Pp. 144-162. 2009.
A: ‘National Identity: Banal, Personal, and Embedded’, Nations and Nationalism 13(4): 657-674. 2007.

M: Rethinking Nationalism: A Critical Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006.
R: ‘Organisational Identity: Working at the Bank’ Identity Briefing No. 9, Leverhulme research programme on Constitutional Change and Identity. 2006.
A: ‘Big City: Civic Symbolism and Scottish Nationalism’, Scottish Affairs 42: 57-82. 2003.
A: ‘Narrative, Agency and Mood: On the Social Construction of National History in Scotland’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 44(4): 745-769. 2002.
A: ‘Identity, Class and Civil Society in Scotland’s Neonationalism’, Nations and Nationalism 8(1): 15-30. 2002.

M: Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2000.
A: “The Social Contract: Re-framing Scottish Nationalism”, Scottish Affairs 23: 14-26. 1998.
A: ‘Scottish Nationalism and the Civil Society Concept: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?, PoLAR, the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 20(1): 32-39. 1997.
C: ‘The Colony at the Core: Scottish Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Colonialism’, in Anthropology for a Small Planet: Culture and Community in a Global Environment. A. Marcus, ed. , St. James, New York: Brandywine Press. Pp. 50-63. 1996.
Competition

M: The Domestication of Competition: Social Evolution and Liberal Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
A: ‘Reframing the History of the Competition Concept: Neoliberalism, Meritocracy, Modernity’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 34(2). 2021.
A: ‘How to Read the Wealth of Nations (or why the division of labor is more important than competition in Adam Smith)’, Sociological Theory 36(2): 162-184. 2018.
A: ‘The Idea of Competition in Dingxin Zhao, The Confucian Legalist State’, Chinese Sociological Review. Extended review as part of special issue reviewing this book.
A: ‘The Culture of Competition in Modern Liberal Societies’, Humanities: Christianity and Culture, vol. 48, pp. 31-54. 2016.
C: ‘Competition as Ritual and the Legitimation of the Liberal Nation State’ in E. Woods and R. Tsang (eds), the Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building: Ritual and Performance in the Forging of Nations, London: Routledge, pp. 68-83. 2014.
Scotland
M: Salvage Ethnography in the Financial Sector: The path to economic crisis in Scotland. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2017.
A: ‘Nationalism and normality: a comment on the Scottish independence referendum’, Dialectical Anthropology 38(4): 505-512. 2014.
A: ‘National Identity: Banal, Personal, and Embedded’, Nations and Nationalism 13(4): 657-674. 2007.
R: ‘Organisational Identity: Working at the Bank’ Identity Briefing No. 9, Leverhulme research programme on Constitutional Change and Identity. 2006.
A: ‘Big City: Civic Symbolism and Scottish Nationalism’, Scottish Affairs 42: 57-82. 2003.
A: ‘Narrative, Agency and Mood: On the Social Construction of National History in Scotland’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 44(4): 745-769. 2002.
A: ‘Identity, Class and Civil Society in Scotland’s Neonationalism’, Nations and Nationalism 8(1): 15-30. 2002.
C: ‘Scotland’, encyclopaedia article in Countries and their Cultures, 4 volumes, New York: Macmillan Reference USA. 2001.
M: Claiming Scotland: National Identity and Liberal Culture, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2000.
C: ‘The Colony at the Core: Scottish Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Colonialism’, in Anthropology for a Small Planet: Culture and Community in a Global Environment. A. Marcus, ed. , St. James, New York: Brandywine Press. Pp. 50-63. 1996.
Civil Society
EV: Contesting Visions of the Civil Society Project. Special Issue of Critique of Anthropology, 21(4). 2001.
A: ‘Taking Liberties: Contesting Visions of the Civil Society Project’, Critique of Anthropology 21(4): 339-360. 2001.
A: ‘Scottish Nationalism and the Civil Society Concept: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?, PoLAR, the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 20(1): 32-39. 1997.
Liberal Society
A: ‘Strong and Weak Civic Identity, and the Management of Conflict in Liberal Societies’, in M. Antonsich, E. Mavroudi & S. Mihelj (eds), ‘Building inclusive nations in the age of migration’, comment section of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 24(2): 156-76. 2017.
EV: Power and Liberal Society. Themed issue of Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No. 275, 1/2016.
A: ‘Inequality, liberal society, and the balance of power’, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, No. 275, 1/2016, pp. 109-128. 2016.
A: ‘The Strength of Weak Legitimacy: a cultural analysis of legitimacy in capitalist, liberal, democratic nation-states’, Journal of Political Power 4(2): 199-216. 2011.
Scottish Enlightenment
A: ‘A Teachable Moment? David Hume and the Tower of Babel’, Scottish Affairs, 31(2): 154-164, 2022.
A: ‘How to Read the Wealth of Nations (or why the division of labor is more important than competition in Adam Smith)’, Sociological Theory 36(2): 162-184. 2018.
A: ‘Once More with Feeling: The Scottish Enlightenment, Sympathy and Social Welfare’, Ethics and Social Welfare 10(3): 211-223. 2016.
A: ‘Demos before Democracy: Ideas of Nation and Society in Adam Smith’ Journal of Classical Sociology, 15(4): 396-414. 2015.
C: ‘Enlightenment’, in Renewing Democracy in Scotland: an educational sourcebook. J. Crowther, I. Martin and M. Shaw, eds., National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Pp. 13-16. 2002.
A: ‘Scottish Nationalism and the Civil Society Concept: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?, PoLAR, the Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 20(1): 32-39. 1997.
Other
A: ‘The Question of Significance: Tall Ship Sailing and Virtue Development’, with Aaron Marshall and Pete Allison (lead authors), Journal of Moral Education. 2019.