Academic Articles
Davidson, J. P. L. (2024). “The apocalypse from below.” American Political Science Review. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1017/S0003055424000479.
Davidson, J. P. L. and da Silva, F. C. (2024). “Decolonising the earth: Anticolonial environmentalism in the soil of empire.” Theory, Culture & Society. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/02632764241242380.
Davidson, J. P. L., and Kemp, L. (2024). “Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change.” WIREs Climate Change, 15(2), e871.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2023). "The politics of eco-anxiety: Anthropocene dread from depoliticisation to repoliticisation." The Anthropocene Review. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/20530196231211854.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2023). "Extinctiopolitics: Existential Risk Studies, the Extinctiopolitical Unconscious, and the Billionaires’ Exodus from Earth." New Formations, 107/108, 48-65.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2023) "Two cheers for collapse? On the uses and abuses of the societal collapse thesis for imagining Anthropocene futures." Environmental Politics, 32(6), 969-987.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2023). “The sociology of utopia, modern temporality and Black visions of liberation.” Sociology, 57(4), 827-842.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2023). “Repeating beats: The return of rave, memories of joy and nostalgia between the afterglow and the hangover.” Memory Studies, 16(2), 421-434.
Davidson, J. P. L. and da Silva, F. C. (2022). “Fear of a Black planet: Climate apocalypse, Anthropocene futures, and Black social thought.” European Journal of Social Theory, 25(4), 521-538.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2022). “Dub, utopia, and the ruins of the Caribbean.” Theory, Culture & Society, 39(1), 3-22.
Davidson, J. P. L (2022). “Back in time for utopia: Neo-Victorian utopianism and the return to William Morris.” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 25(3), 863-879.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2021). “Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory.” Current Sociology, 69(7), 1069-1084.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2021). “Ugly progress: W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociology of the future.” The Sociological Review, 69(1), 382-395.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2021). “A dash of pessimism? Ernst Bloch, radical disappointment and the militant excavation of hope.” Critical Horizons, 22(4), 420-437.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2021). “Retrotopian feminism: The feminist 1970s, the literary utopia and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army.” Feminist Theory. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1177/1464700121994076.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2021). “From the future to the past (and back again?): A review of Aleida Assmann’s Is Time Out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime.” Review essay (with a response from Assmann). International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s10767-021-09412-9.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2021). “Aristocratic realism: Within and against feudalism in English future fiction.” Alluvium, 9(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.7766/alluvium.v9.3.06.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2020). “Between utopia and tradition: William Morris’s A Dream of John Ball.” The European Legacy, 25(4), 389-403.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2020). ““Life can be a little bit fluffy”: Survival television, neoliberalism and the ambiguous utopia of self-preservation.” Television and New Media, 21(5), 475-492.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2019). “Blast from the past: Hopeful retrofuturism in science fiction film.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 33(6), 729-743.
Davidson, J. P. L. (2019). “My utopia is your utopia? William Morris, utopian theory and the claims of the past.” Thesis Eleven, 152(1), 87-101.