Nigel Young’s published work since 1964 has focused on the state and social movements - especially Peace Movements, and resistance to the war-making aspects of the state including Anarchist and Pacifist perspectives and expressions. Much of his publication has also focused on developing Peace Studies and Peace research - in a broad sense - as fields.
Much of his publication has reflected his experiences as an activist from 1957 - 1968 and intermittently from 1972-85: his earlier experiences in CND and the committee of 100, and the New Left (68) are reflected in Campaigns for Peace, and An Infantile Disorder? (1976); his contact with peace ideas and conscientious objection since an early age is reflected in Pacifism in the 20th Century; his work in developing peace studies in Problems and Possibilities in the study of Peace (1975); and his critique of perspectives on the Vietnam War, in On War, National Liberation, and the State (1970).
His more theoretical work is reflected in his articles: Durkheim and the Corporatist State (Birmingham, 1969); The Incorporation of the English working class (1967, Berkeley Journal of Sociology) in response to fellow New Left historian, EP Thompson, and on the analysis of Peace and Social conflict, in response to Lewis Coser,
(ASA paper, Montreal, 1964) Society for the study of Social Problems) His most important theoretic statement to date is his essay War Resistance, State, and Society (In Shaw, 1986). This will be expanded in his new study Communities of Resistance, which will also reflect his experience of draft resistance in the USA (1965-1969).
Above: Book covers, left to right:
“An Infantile Disorder?: The crisis and decline of the new left” Nigel Young, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975, 2nd publication Westview Press, 1976
“Pacifism in the Twentieth Century” Peter Brock & Nigel Young, Syracuse University Press, NY, 2003
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“Campaigns for Peace: British peace movements in the twentieth century” Richard Taylor and Nigel Young, Manchester University Press, 1987
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