Brad EVANS
Academic Publications
Authored Books
B. Evans & C. Meza (2027, forthcoming) Art Against Oblivion: Making art an integral element of educational practices on disappearance & extreme violence (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press)
B. Evans & C. Meza (2026, forthcoming) Disappearance: The Normalisation of the Extreme (London and New York, Agenda Press/Colombia University Press)
B. Evans (2024) How Black Was My Valley: Poverty & Abandonment in a Post-Industrial Heartland (London and New York, Repeater/Penguin Random House)
B. Evans (2021) Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity (New York, Columbia University Press) [Translated into Chinese]
B. Evans (2019) The Atrocity Exhibition (Los Angeles, The L.A. Review of Books Press)
B. Evans & S. M. Wilson (2016) Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking (London, New Internationalist) [Translated into German, Spanish, Russian, Korean & Turkish]
B. Evans & H. A. Giroux (2015) Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle (San Francisco, City Lights)
B. Evans & J. Reid (2014) Resilient Life: The Art of Living Dangerously (Cambridge, Polity Press) [Translated into Spanish, Korean & Turkish]
B. Evans (2013) Liberal Terror (Cambridge, Polity Press)
Edited/Curated Books
B. Evans & C. Meza [eds.] (2023) State of Disappearance (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press)
B. Evans & A. Parr (2021) Conversations on Violence: An Anthology (London, Pluto Press) [Currently being translated into Greek]
B. Evans [ed.] (2021) When the Towers Fell: Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks (Los Angeles, The L.A. Review of Books Press)
B. Evans [ed.] (2020) The Quarantine Files: Thinkers in Self-Isolation (Los Angeles, The L.A. Review of Books Press)
B. Evans & N. Lennard (2018) Violence: Humans in Dark Times (San Francisco, City Lights)
B. Evans & T. Carver [eds.] (2017) Histories of Violence: Post War Critical Thought (London, Zed Books)
B. Evans & J. Reid [eds.] (2013) Deleuze & Fascism: Security, War & Aesthetics (London, Routledge)
Special Edited Journals
B. Evans (2027, forthcoming) ‘A Weaponised Earth: The Elements of Death and Disappearance (The Philosopher)
B. Evans & C. Holmqvist [eds.] (2025) “Hiroshima & Nagasaki 80th Anniversary of the Bombings” (Thesis Eleven, Vol. 189 No. 1)
B. Evans [ed.] (2024) “Violence” (The Philosopher, Winter edition)
B. Evans & A. De Boever [eds.] (2015) “Gilles Deleuze: The Event of Life, Commemoration on the 20th Anniversary of the Death of Gilles Deleuze” (The L.A. Review of Books)
B. Evans & K. Tester [eds.] (2015) “Hiroshima & Nagasaki 70th Anniversary of the Bombings” (Thesis Eleven, Vol. 129 No. 1)
B. Evans [ed.] (2011) “Against the Day: Liberal War” (The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 110 No. 3)
B. Evans & C. Bell [eds.] (2010) “Post-Intervention Societies” (Journal of Intervention & State Building, Vol. 5 No. 4)
B. Evans & L. Guillaume [eds.] (2010) Special Symposium on “Deleuze & War” (Theory & Event, Vol. 13 No. 3)
Academic Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)
B. Evans & D. Rugo (2026) “Weaponised Ecologies: How cinema addresses nature’s complicity in enforced disappearances” (Journal of Visual Culture)
B. Evans & C. Holmqvist, (2025) “Annihilation Aesthetics: The disappearances of Hiroshima and Nagasaki” (Thesis Eleven Vol. 189 No. 1) 8-19
B. Evans & D. Rugo (2025) “Annihilated landscapes: Disappearance, desolation and the memory of the abyss” (Thesis Eleven Vol. 189 No. 1) 20-36
B. Evans & C. Meza, (2025) "The Brutality of Fact: Violence, Disappearance & the Promise of Oblivion in the Art of Francis Bacon” (Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies)
B. Evans (2024) “Primal Fear: The Weaponization of Nothingness” (The Philosopher, Winter edition)
B. Evans & J. Reid (2024) “Thinking as if Already Dead: The Imaginal Life of Gilles Deleuze” (Symploke Vol. 31) 273-290
B. Evans & C. Meza (2022) “Have we finally become Ghosts in the Machine”? (The Philosopher, Summer Edition) 63-70
B. Evans & C. Meza (2022) “The Techno-Theodicy: How Technology Became the New Religion” (Theory & Event Vol. 25 No. 3) 639-664
B. Evans & C. Meza (2022) “Immersive: A Violent Interruption to a Visual Silence” (Washington University Review of Philosophy Vol. 2) 219-235
B. Evans & C. Meza (2022) "Narcissus in Three Acts: The University of the Future, Artificial Art & the Techno-Nihilistic Dream" (Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies)
B. Evans & J. Reid (2022) “The Religious Left: How the left lost its argument and fell into the moral abyss” (The Journal of Educational Philosophy & Theory)
B. Evans (2022) “How Should We Educate Children About Violence?” (Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies Vol. 19 No. 3) 354-385
B. Evans & J. Reid (2022) “Outrageous: Defending the Art of Free Expression” (New Perspectives Vol. 30 No. 1) 68-86
B. Evans & C. Meza (2021) “Violence & Abstraction” (Symploke Vol. 29 No. 1) 333-361
B. Evans (2021) “Portraits of Violence: Critical Reflections on the Graphic Novel” (Sociologica: International Journal of Sociological Debate Vol. 15 No. 1) 241-263
B. Evans & C. Meza (2021) “Making Peace with Violence” (nY: Journal of Literature, Entertainment & Criticism No. 44) [published in Dutch, English translation online]
B. Evans & H.A. Giroux (2020) “American Fascism: Fourteen Deadly Principles of Contemporary Politics” (Symploke Vol. 28 No. 1) 181-206
B. Evans (2020), “The Shame of Being Human” (Frame: The Journal of Literary Studies Vol. 33 No. 2) 53-71
B. Evans (2020) “Myths of Violence” (Journal of Humanitarian Affairs Vol. 2 No. 1) 62-68
B. Evans & H. A. Giroux (2016) “Imagination Warfare: Targeting Youths on the Everyday Battlefields of the 21st Century” (Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation & Culture Vol. 22 No. 3) 230-247
B. Evans (2016) “Liberal Violence: The Benjaminian Divine to the Angels of History” (Theory & Event, Vol. 19 (1) Web-based publication. No Pages: 36
B. Evans & H. A. Giroux (2015) “Intolerable Violence” (Symploke, Vol. 23 (No. 1 & 2) 197-2219
B. Evans & K. Tester (2015) “Introduction: Hiroshima & Nagasaki 70th Anniversary of the Bombings” (Thesis Eleven, Vol. 129 No. 1) 1-8
B. Evans & J. Reid (2015) "Exhausted by Resilience: Response Commentaries. Forum on Brad Evans & Julian Reid's Resilient Life" (Resilience, Vol. 3 No. 2) 154-159
B. Evans & J. Reid (2013) “Dangerously Exposed: The Life and Death of the Resilient Subject” (Resilience, Vol. 1 No. 2) 1-22.
B. Evans (2011) “Liberal War: Introducing the Ten Key Principles of 21st Century Bio-Political Warfare” (The South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 110 No. 3) 747-756
B. Evans & C. Bell (2010) “Post-Intervention Societies: An Introduction” (Journal of Intervention & State Building, Vol. 5 No. 1) 363-370.
B. Evans & C. Bell (2010) “Terrorism to Insurgency: Mapping the Post-Intervention Security Terrain” (Journal of Intervention & State Building, Vol. 5 No. 1) 371-390.
B. Evans & L. Guillaume (2010) “Deleuze & War: An Introduction” (Theory & Event, Vol. 13 No. 3) Special Symposium on Deleuze & War) 1-3
B. Evans (2010) “Terror in All Eventuality” (Theory & Event, Vol. 13 No. 3) Special Symposium on Deleuze & War) Web-based publication. No Pages: 27
B. Evans (2010) “Foucault’s Legacy: Security, War & Violence in the 21st Century” (Security Dialogue Vol. 41 No. 4) 413-433
B. Evans (2010) “Life Resistance: Towards a Different Concept of the Political” (Deleuze Studies Vol. 4 No. 3) 142-162
B. Evans (2009) “Revolution Without Violence” (Peace Review, Vol. 21 No. 1) 85-94
B. Evans (2008) “The Zapatista Insurgency: Bringing the Political Back into Conflict Analysis” (New Political Science, Vol. 30 No. 4) 497-520
Chapters in Books
B. Evans & C. Meza (2025), “Out of the Abyss: Recovering the Human from the Disappearing Dust of History” in B. Herzogenrath (ed.) Alternative Futures: Art as a Toolkit for Survival (Bristol, Intellect Books)
B. Evans & C. Meza (2023) “The Aesthetics of Disappearance” in B. Evans & C. Meza, [cur.] State of Disappearance (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press)
B. Evans & C. Meza (2023) “The Disappearance of the Aesthetic” in B. Evans & C. Meza, [cur.] State of Disappearance (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press)
B. Evans & C. Meza (2023) “Theatre of the Disappeared” in B. Evans & C. Meza, [cur.] State of Disappearance (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press)
B. Evans & C. Meza (2022) “Beyond Control: Technology, Post-Faciality & the Dance of the Abstract” in A. Pratihar & S. Das [eds.], Deleuze, Guattari & the Global Pandemic (London, Bloomsbury)
B. Evans (2022) "The Pedagogical Force of Fascism" in H. A. Giroux, Pedagogy of Resistance (London, Bloomsbury)
B. Evans (2021) “Hermoso caos: la pasión de Maradona” in A. Zuriaga & G. Grosso [eds.] Fenomenología de Maradona (Madrid, Altamarea)
B. Evans (2021) “Just September?” in B. Evans [cur.], When the Towers Fell (Los Angeles, Los Angeles Review of Books Press)
B. Evans & S. Critchley (2021) “Theatre of Violence” in S. Critchley, BALD: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts (Yale, Yale University Press)
B. Evans (2021) "Violence in a Post-liberal World" in J. Fiori et. al [eds.] Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism at the end of Liberal Order (London, Hurst Press)
B. Evans (2021) "Ce n'est pas conspiration mais une terrifiante opportunite" in T. Paquot [ed.] Dromologie, la vitesse c'est l'etat d'urgence (Paris, Eterotopia)
B. Evans & G. Yancy (2020) "The Perils of Being a Black Philosopher" in G. Yancy, Thinking Across Black Spaces (Malden, Rowman & Littlefield)
B. Evans & J. Akomfrah (2020) "Landscapes of Violence" in W. Crichlow [ed.] Spaces of New Colonialism: the city, the school & the museum (New York, Peter Lang)
B. Evans (2019) "The Rhondda Valleys" in M. Kelly [ed.] Homes for Heroes: Council Estate Memories (Bristol, Bristol Festival of Ideas)
B. Evans (2018) "Violence" in J. De Leo [ed.] The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory (Bloomsbury, London
B. Evans (2017) "Dead in the Waters" in A. Baldwin & G. Bettini [eds.] Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique (Maryland, Rowman & Littlefield)
B. Evans & T. Carver (2017) “The Subject of Violence” in B. Evans & T. Carver [eds.] Histories of Violence: An Introduction to Post War Critical Thought (London, Zed Books)
B. Evans (2017) “Michel Foucault” in B. Evans & T. Carver [eds.] Histories of Violence: An Introduction to Post War Critical Thought (London, Zed Books)
B. Evans & J. Reid (2016) "Dangerously Exposed: The Life & Death of the Resilient Subject" in D. Chandler [ed.] Routledge Handbook of International Resilience (London, Routledge)
B. Evans & H. A. Giroux (2016) “Paris, ISIS & Disposable Youth”. In H. A. Giroux, America at War with Itself (San Francisco, City Lights)
B. Evans & H. A. Giroux (2014) “Intellectual Violence in the Age of Gated Intellectuals”. In H. A. Giroux, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket Books) 77-103
B. Evans (2013) “Fascism & the Bio-Political”. In B. Evans & J. Reid [eds.] Deleuze & Fascism: Securitisation, War & Aesthetics (London, Routledge) 42-63
B. Evans & J. Reid (2013) “Fascism in All its Forms”. In B. Evans & J. Reid [eds.] Deleuze & Fascism: Securitisation, War, Aesthetics (London, Routledge) 1-12
B. Evans & M. Duffield (2011) “Bio-Spheric Security: How the Merger Between Development, Security & the Environment [Desenex] is Retrenching Fortress Europe”. In P. Burgess & S. Gutwirth [eds.] A Threat Against Europe? Security, Migration and Integration (Brussels, VUB Press) 93-110