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Authored Books

Heywood, Andrew and Whitham, Ben (2023) Global Politics (3rd Edition). London: Bloomsbury.

Book Chapters

Whitham, Ben (2023) 'Britain in the World.' In: Willett, Joanie and Giovannini, Arianna, (eds.), An Introduction to UK Politics: Place, Pluralism, and Identities. London: Sage. (Forthcoming)

Whitham, Ben and Ali, Nadya (2023) 'Terrorism.' In: Rossi, Norma and Riemann, Malte, (eds.), Security Studies: An Applied Introduction. London: Sage. (Forthcoming)

Whitham, Ben (2023) 'Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia.' In: Easat-Daas, Amina and Zempi, Irene, (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia. Palgrave Macmillan. (Forthcoming)

Whitham, Ben (2021) 'The cultural politics of crisis in the UK.' In: Price, Stuart and Harbisher, Ben, (eds.), Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic. London: Routledge, pp. 71-85.

Whitham, Ben (2020) 'A postmodern neo-Marxist’s guide to free speech: Jordan Peterson, the alt-right and neo-fascism.' In: Riley, Charlotte Lydia, (ed.), The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter? Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 227-238.

Journal Article

Whitham, Ben (2023) 'The Revolution of Values and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy.' Global Political Economy. (Forthcoming)

Whitham, Ben and Ali, Nadya (2023) 'Frames of War and Welfare: Crises, Austerity, and Islamophobia in the UK.' IPPR Progressive Review, 30 (1). pp. 21-27.

Ali, Nadya and Whitham, Ben (2021) 'Racial Capitalism, Islamophobia, and Austerity.' International Political Sociology, 15 (2). pp. 190-211.

Hall, Richard, Ansley, Lucy, Connolly, Paris, Loonat, Sumeya, Patel, Kaushika and Whitham, Ben (2021) 'Struggling for the anti-racist university: learning from an institution-wide response to curriculum decolonisation.' Teaching in Higher Education, 26 (7/8). pp. 902-919.

Ali, Nadya and Whitham, Ben (2018) 'The unbearable anxiety of being: Ideological fantasies of British Muslims beyond the politics of security.' Security Dialogue, 49 (5). pp. 400-417.

Whitham, Ben (2018) 'Thinking the ‘Culture Wars’ and the Present Political Crisis with the Young Marx (and Friends).' tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 16 (2). pp. 707-716.

Whitham, Ben (2017) 'Post-Crash Neoliberalism in Theory and Practice.' Political Studies Review, 16 (4). pp. 252-264.

Whitham, Ben (2013) 'From security to resilience? (Neo)liberalism, war and terror after 9/11.' Resilience, 1 (3). pp. 219-229.

Monographs and Working Papers

Whitham, Ben (2023) The UK in the World: From 'Internal Colonialism' to 'Global Britain'. London: (Unpublished)

Whitham, Ben (2022) The Online Safety Bill: Will it Make Online Spaces Safer for Muslim Communities? Birmingham: Community Policy Forum.

Book Reviews

Whitham, Ben (2017) 'Review of: Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom by Weaver Timothy PR. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 349pp., £45.50 (h/b), ISBN 9780812247824.' Political Studies Review, 15 (2). p. 297.

Whitham, Ben (2014) 'Review of: Democratic Futures: Re-visioning Democracy Promotion by Milja Kurki. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. 296 pp., £26.99, ISBN 978 0 415 69034 8.' Political Studies Review, 12 (2). p. 259.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Whitham, Ben (2022) It's no surprise liberal democracy is giving way to authoritarianism. The Conversation [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]