Academics
David Berry BA, MA, DPhil
Senior Lecturer in European Studies Email d.g.berry@lboro.ac.uk |
Biography
| Having completed a BA in French and German (Oxford) and then a more interdisciplinary MA in French Studies (Sussex), I moved into history (still at Sussex) to do a DPhil in French labour history. I have been at Loughborough since 1986, and my research area, broadly speaking, is the history of the Left and of labour movements in the 20th century, particularly in France. I have worked mostly on the French anarchist movement and ‘alternative left’, and am currently working on Daniel Guérin (1904-88) and the libertarian communist tradition (from 1917 to the present). |  |
Having been involved for some years with the Journal of Contemporary European Studies (formerly the Journal of Area Studies), I am currently an associate editor of the journal Anarchist Studies. I am a member of the CIRA (Centre International de Recherches sur l’Anarchisme), of the ASMCF (Association for the Study of Modern & Contemprary France) and of the ASN (Anarchist Studies Network, aka the Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism within the Political Studies Association).
Detailed searchable list of publications
Recent publications
A History of the French Anarchist Movement, 1917-1945 (Westview, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
Daniel Guérin, révolutionnaire en mouvement(s), proceedings of conference
held at Loughborough University in September 2004, special issue of
Dissidences no.2 (March 2007). ISSN 1292-5799.
‘Resistance and Collaboration: the French Anarchist Movement 1939-1945’ in Andreas Graf (ed.), Anarchisten gegen Hitler (Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2001), pp.29-55.
‘«Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous!». Daniel Guérin, the labour movement and homosexuality’, in Paul Pasteur, Sonja Niederacher & Maria Mesner (eds.), Sexualität, Unterschichtenmilieu und ArbeiterInnenbewegung (Vienna: ITH & Akademische Verlagsanstalt, 2003), pp.189-203.
‘“For a dialectic of homosexuality and revolution.” Daniel Guerin’s engagement with ‘sexology’ from the 1950’s and his contribution to the theorization of sexuality and gender from a historical materialist perspective’ in Gert Hekma (ed.), Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics (Amsterdam: Mosse Foundation, 2004), pp.96-115.
‘Daniel Guérin’ in Christopher John Murray (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought (New York and London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp.280-2.
‘“Un contradicteur permanent”: The ideological and political itinerary of Daniel Guérin’ in Julian Bourg (ed.), After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004), pp.149-74.
‘‘Like a wisp of straw amidst the raging elements’? Daniel Guérin in the Second World War’ in Simon Kitson and Hanna Diamond (eds.), Vichy, Resistance, Liberation. New Perspectives on Wartime France. (Festschrift in Honour of H. R. Kedward) (Oxford: Berg, 2005), pp.143-54.
‘Luttes de classement, luttes de classe’, editorial introduction to thematic issue of Journal of European Area Studies vol.9, no.2 (November 2001), pp.159-62 (with Jeremy Leaman).
‘Le mouvement anarchiste français (1939-1945). Résistance et collaboration’ in Dissidences (Bulletin de liaison des études sur les mouvements révolutionnaires), vol.5, no.12-13 (October 2002/January 2003), pp.41-51.
‘Daniel Guérin à la Libération. De l’historien de la Révolution au militant révolutionnaire: un tournant idéologique’ in Agone—Sociologie, Histoire Politique no.29/30 (2003), pp.257-73.
‘“Workers of the world, embrace!” Daniel Guérin, the labour movement and homosexuality’ in Left History vol.9, no.2 (spring/summer 2004), pp.11-43.
‘Présentation: Daniel Guérin, la contestation permanente’ in Daniel Guérin, révolutionnaire en mouvement(s), special issue of Dissidences no.2 (March 2007), pp.5-20.