The Institute for Lifelong Learning

Darren Webb, BA, MA, PhD

Lecturer: Continuing Education (Social Science)

Course Director: BA Combined Studies (Social and Political Studies)

Email: d.webb@sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: 0114 2227084

Darren is based in The Institute for Lifelong Learning and is Director of the Social and Political Studies track of the Combined Studies degree. He teaches modules in a variety of areas, including political theory, the history of utopian thought, regional development and policy, and social research methods. His specialist research field is the history of political thought.

Recent publications include:

Webb, D. (2005) 'Bakhtin at the Seaside: Utopia, Modernity and the Carnivalesque' Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 22(3), pp.121-138.

Webb, D. (2004) 'The Bitter Product of Defeat? Reflections on Winstanley's Law of Freedom', Political Studies Vol. 52(2), pp.199-215.

Webb, D. (2003) 'Contract, Covenant and Class Consciousness: Gerrard Winstanley and the Broken Promises of the English Revolution', History of Political Thought, Vol. 24(4), pp.577-598.

Webb, D. (2003) 'Institutions of the New Regionalism-the Case of England', Current Politics and Economics of Europe, Vol. 12(3), pp.225-241.

Webb, D. (2002) 'Here Content Transcends Phrase: The Eighteenth Brumaire as the Key to Understanding Marx's Critique of Utopian Socialism' in M. Cowling and J. Martin (eds) Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire: (Post)modern Interpretations. London: Pluto, pp.243-257.

Webb, D. (2000) Marx, Marxism and Utopia. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Webb, D. (2000) 'Concrete Utopia? The Mystical Elitism of Ernst Bloch', Studies in Marxism, Vol.7, pp.73-100.

Webb, D. and Collis, C. (2000) 'Regional Development Agencies and the New Regionalism in England', Regional Studies, Vol. 34(9), pp.857-865.