Contact
Email richard.jackson@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 471 6461
Teaching
Supervision
Professor Jackson is interested in supervising students with projects in the following areas:
- pacifism, anarchism and nonviolent politics
- civilian-based nonviolent national defence
- nonviolent resistance movements
- unarmed peacekeeping and civilian protection
- critical peace research
- critical terrorism studies
Research
Professor Jackson's areas of research expertise and writing for publication include:
- Pacifism and nonviolence
- critical terrorism studies
- the social construction of war and other forms of organised political violence
- international conflict resolution
- political development in the African state
Richard Jackson is Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). He is the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and the series editor of the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies Book Series.
He is the author and editor of 14 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Some of his recent books include: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Concepts, Cases and Controversies (Zed, 2020; co-edited with Joseph Llewellyn, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth and Tonga Karena); Encountering extremism: Theoretical issues and local challenges (Manchester University Press, 2020; co-edited with Alice Martini and Kieran Ford); Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten: Contributions, Cases and Future Challenges (Routledge, 2019; co-edited with Harmonie Toros, Lee Jarvis, Lee, and Charlotte Heath-Kelly); Contemporary Debates in Terrorism (2nd edition, Routledge, 2018; co-edited with Daniela Pisiou); The Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (Routledge, 2016) ; and Terrorism: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011; co-authored with Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning and Lee Jarvis). His most widely cited book is Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counterterrorism (Manchester University Press, 2005). He is also the author of a novel entitled Confessions of a Terrorist (Zed, 2014).
He appears regularly in the media, and writes about these issues on his blog:
https://richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com
Publications
Jackson, R. (2019). Pacifism and the ethical imagination in IR. International Politics, 56(2), 212-227. doi: 10.1057/s41311-017-0137-6
Jackson, R. (2018). Pacifism: The anatomy of a subjugated knowledge. Critical Studies on Security, 6(2), 160-175. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2017.1342750
Jackson, R. (2018). Post-liberal peacebuilding and the pacifist state. Peacebuilding, 6(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2017.1303871
Jackson, R., Toros, H., Jarvis, L., & Heath-Kelly, C. (Eds.). (2019). Critical terrorism studies at ten: Contributions, cases and future challenges. London, UK: Routledge, 194p.
Jackson, R., & Pisoiu, D. (Eds.). (2018). Contemporary debates on terrorism (2nd ed.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 292p.
Jackson, R. (2019). Pacifism and the ethical imagination in IR. International Politics, 56(2), 212-227. doi: 10.1057/s41311-017-0137-6
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2018). Pacifism: The anatomy of a subjugated knowledge. Critical Studies on Security, 6(2), 160-175. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2017.1342750
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2018). Post-liberal peacebuilding and the pacifist state. Peacebuilding, 6(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2017.1303871
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R., Toros, H., Jarvis, L., & Heath-Kelly, C. (Eds.). (2019). Critical terrorism studies at ten: Contributions, cases and future challenges. London, UK: Routledge, 194p.
Edited Book - Research
Jackson, R., & Pisoiu, D. (Eds.). (2018). Contemporary debates on terrorism (2nd ed.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 292p.
Edited Book - Other
Jackson, R. (Ed.). (2016). Routledge handbook of critical terrorism studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 311p.
Edited Book - Research
Jackson, R., & Hall, G. (2016). Talking about terrorism: A study of vernacular discourse. Politics, 36(3), 292-307. doi: 10.1177/0263395715610791
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2015). The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 8(1), 33-54. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2015.1009762
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2017). CTS, counterterrorism and non-violence. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 10(2), 357-369. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2017.1334851
Journal - Research Other
Jackson, R. (2016). To be or not to be policy relevant? Power, emancipation and resistance in CTS research. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 9(1), 120-125. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2016.1147771
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2016). Critical discourse analysis. In P. Dixit & J. L. Stump (Eds.), Critical methods in terrorism studies. (pp. 77-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2015). How resistance can save peace studies. Journal of Resistance Studies, 1(1), 18-49.
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2015). Terrorism, taboo, and discursive resistance: The agonistic potential of the terrorism novel. International Studies Review, 17, 396-413. doi: 10.1111/misr.12227
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2015). On how to be a collective intellectual: Critical terrorism studies and the countering of hegemonic discourse. In T. V. Berling & C. Bueger (Eds.), Security expertise: Practice, power, responsibility. (pp. 186-203). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2015). Towards critical peace research: Lessons from critical terrorism studies. In I. Tellidis & H. Toros (Eds.), Researching terrorism, peace and conflict studies: Interaction, synthesis, and opposition. (pp. 19-37). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R., & Dexter, H. (2014). The social construction of organised political violence: An analytical framework. Civil Wars, 16(1), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/13698249.2014.904982
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2014). Bringing pacifism back into international relations. Social Alternatives, 33(4), 63-66.
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2015). Bin Laden's ghost and the epistemological crises of counterterrorism. In S. Jeffords & F. Al-Sumait (Eds.), Covering bin Laden: Global media and the world's most wanted man. (pp. 3-19). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2015). Discursive peacebuilding and conflict transformation after separatist wars: A radical proposition. In D. Kingsbury & C. Laoutides (Eds.), Territorial separatism in global politics: Causes, outcomes and resolution. (pp. 74-89). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2014). Critical perspectives. In E. Newman & K. DeRouen (Eds.), Routledge handbook of civil wars. (pp. 79-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2014). Confessions of a terrorist. London: Zed Books, 324p.
Authored Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2014). Bush, Obama, Bush, Obama, Bush, Obama...: The war on terror as social structure. In M. Bentley & J. Holland (Eds.), Obama's foreign policy: Ending the war on terror. (pp. 76-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R., & McDonald, M. (2014). Constructivism, US foreign policy, and counterterrorism. In I. Parmar, L. B. Miller & M. Ledwidge (Eds.), Obama and the world: New directions in US foreign policy. (2nd ed.) (pp. 15-28). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2013). The politics of terrorism fears. In S. J. Sinclair & D. Antonius (Eds.), The political psychology of terrorism fears. (pp. 267-282). Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2013). Terrorism studies and academia. In R. van Zwanenberg & D. Shulman (Eds.), Weapon of the strong: Conversations on US state terrorism: Interviews by Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes. (pp. 118-131). London: Pluto Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2012). Unknown knowns: The subjugated knowledge of terrorism studies. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 5(1), 11-29. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2012.659907
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2012). The study of terrorism 10 years after 9/11: Successes, issues, challenges. Uluslararasi Iliskiler / International Relations, 8(32), 1-16.
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R., & Sinclair, S. J. (Eds.). (2012). Contemporary debates on terrorism. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 240p.
Edited Book - Research
Jackson, R., Jarvis, L., Gunning, J., & Breen Smyth, M. (2011). Terrorism: A critical introduction. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 332p.
Authored Book - Research
Gunning, J., & Jackson, R. (2011). What's so 'religious' about 'religious terrorism'? Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4(3), 369-388. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2011.623405
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2011). Culture, identity and hegemony: Continuity and (the lack of) change in US counterterrorism policy from Bush to Obama. International Politics, 48(2-3), 390-411. doi: 10.1057/ip.2011.5
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2011). In defence of 'terrorism': Finding a way through a forest of misconceptions. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression, 3(2), 116-130. doi: 10.1080/19434472.2010.512148
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R., Murphy, E., & Poynting, S. (Eds.). (2010). Contemporary state terrorism: Theory and practice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 242p.
Edited Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2010). Regime security. In A. Collins (Ed.), Contemporary security studies. (2nd ed.) (pp. 185-201). Oxford University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2009). The study of terrorism after 11 September 2001: Problems, challenges and future developments. Political Studies Review, 7(2), 171-184. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9299.2009.00177.x
Journal - Research Article
Bercovitch, J., & Jackson, R. (2009). Conflict resolution in the twenty-first century: Principles, methods, and approaches. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 226p.
Authored Book - Research
Jackson, R., Breen Smyth, M., & Gunning, J. (Eds.). (2009). Critical terrorism studies: A new research agenda. Abingdon, OX: Routledge, 274p.
Edited Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2008). The ghosts of state terror: Knowledge, politics and terrorism studies. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 1(3), 377-392. doi: 10.1080/17539150802515046
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2009). Conflict resolution in Africa: A comparative empirical analysis. In M. Meyer & E. Ndura-Ouédraogo (Eds.), Seeds of new hope: Pan-African peace studies for the 21st century. (pp. 229-248). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2009). Constructivism and conflict resolution. In J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk & I. W. Zartman (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict resolution. (pp. 172-189). London: SAGE.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R., & McDonald, M. (2009). Constructivism, US foreign policy and the 'war on terror'. In I. Parmar, L. B. Miller & M. Ledwidge (Eds.), New directions in US foreign policy. (pp. 18-31). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2009). The 9/11 attacks and the social construction of a national narrative. In M. J. Morgan (Ed.), The impact of 9/11 on the media, arts, and entertainment: The day that changed everything? (pp. 25-35). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2008). The politics of fear: Writing the terrorist threat in the war on terror. In G. Kassimeris (Ed.), Playing politics with terrorism: A user's guide. (pp. 176-202). New York: Columbia University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2007). Language, policy and the construction of a torture culture in the war on terrorism. Review of International Studies, 33, 353-371. doi: 10.1017/S0260210507007553
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2007). Critical reflections on counter-sanctuary discourse. In M. A. Innes (Ed.), Denial of sanctuary: Understanding terrorist safe havens. (pp. 21-33). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2007). Constructing enemies: 'Islamic terrorism' in political and academic discourse. Government & Opposition, 42(3), 394-426. doi: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00229.x
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2007). An analysis of EU counterterrorism discourse post-September 11. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 20(2), 233-247. doi: 10.1080/09557570701414617
Journal - Research Article
Jackson, R. (2006). Africa's wars: Overview, causes and the challenges of conflict transformation. In O. Furley & R. May (Eds.), Ending Africa's wars: Progressing to peace. (pp. 15-29). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2006). The discursive construction of torture in the war on terror: Narratives of danger and evil. In G. Kassimeris (Ed.), Warrior's dishonour: Barbarity, morality and torture in modern warfare. (pp. 141-168). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Chapter in Book - Research
Jackson, R. (2005). Writing the war on terrorism: Language, politics and counter-terrorism. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 232p.
Authored Book - Research
