Publications by
Dr Daniel A. Gordon
Daniel's publications span over 25 years, covering a wide range of themes in a variety of formats, from book reviews to blogposts to interviews to in-depth journal articles and book chapters.
He has written, for example, on continuities between pre-war, Vichy and post-war France; on the comparative histories of the Left in France and Italy; on relations between anti-racist movements in Britain and France; and on a secret meeting on a park bench between a Communist trade union leader and Jacques Chirac, who claimed to have brought a gun in his pocket.
His most recent publication is about British students studying abroad in France and their highly varied responses to the events of May 1968.
Migration and Anti-Racism Publications
‘Anti-Racism in France’ in Alison Holland and Christopher Lee, eds, The Routledge Handbook of Anti-Racism in Historical Perspective, forthcoming
(with Zana Vathi and Henry Holborn) ‘Multi-Stakeholder Knowledge Exchange Events as a Tool of Migration Infrastructure: Evidence from the North West of England’, Journal of Refugee Studies, April 2025, https://academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jrs/feaf025/8106786
‘Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe Since the 1960s’ in Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman, eds, Social Justice in Twentieth Century Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2024 Download
‘Daniel Gordon on the Ten Year Residency Permit’, French History Network Blog, November 2023, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6087/
‘A Victory for the March for Equality? Immigration, Policy, Protest and the Ten Year Residency Permit of 1984’, French History, 37, 3 (2023), 294-316
Review of Pour la dignité. Ouvriers immigrés et conflits sociaux dans les années 1980 by Vincent Gay, Revue européene des migrations internationales, 39, 1 (2023), 239-240 Download
Review of De cendres et de braises: Voix et histoires d’une banlieue populaire / L’expérience d’un film by Manon Ott, Modern and Contemporary France, 29, 2 (2021), 230-231 Download
"Immigrants and Intellectuals: May ’68 And The Rise of Anti-Racism in France,, Merlin Press, paperback, 2012, reissued 2019, https://www.newsfromnowhere.co.uk/page/detail/Immigrants-intellectuals/?ISB=9780850366648
Parts of Immigrants and Intellectuals have been translated into French & Flemish in Lava magazine, April 2018, https://lavamedia.be/fr/les-travailleurs-immigres-sortis-de-la-nuit/; in French as ‘17 octobre 1961 et la population française: la collaboration ou la résistance?’, in Aïssa Kadri, Moula Bouaziz and Tramor Quemeneur, eds, La guerre d’Algérie revisitée. Nouvelles générations, nouveaux regards, Karthala, 2015; and in French as ‘Sans Frontière et la fin des années 68’ in Caroline Rolland-Diamond, Xavier Landrin, Anne-Marie Pailhès, and Bernard Lacroix, eds, Les contrecultures: genèses, circulations, pratiques, Syllepse, 2015.
(with Selim Nadi) ‘Immigrant Struggles, Anti-Racism and May 1968: An Interview with Daniel A. Gordon’, Viewpoint Magazine, October 2017, https://viewpointmag.com/2017/10/05/immigrant-struggles-anti-racism-may-1968-interview-daniel-gordon/, also published in French as ‘Le Mai 68 des immigrés en France: Entretien avec Daniel A. Gordon’, Contretemps, September 2017, https://www.contretemps.eu/mai-68-immigres-france-gordon/
‘Islamophobia, Antisemitism and the Search for Common Ground in French Antiracist Movements Since 1898’, in James Renton and Ben Gidley, eds, Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: A Shared Story, Palgrave, 2017, 217-266
‘Calais Is Our Berlin Wall’, French History Network Blog, November 2016, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/1118/
‘From Militancy to History: Sans Frontière and Immigrant Memory at the Dawn of the 1980s’ in Emile Chabal, ed, France Since the 1970s: History, Politics and Memory in an Age of Uncertainty, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, 115-128
‘Les Marches vues du Royaume-Uni’, in François Brun and Ahsène Zehraoui, eds, Les Marches pour l'Egalité et contre le racisme de 1983 à 1985, special issue of Migrations Société, 159 (2015), 141-158, https://shs.cairn.info/revue-migrations-societe-2015-3-page-141?lang=fr
‘French and British Antiracists Since the 1960s: A rendez-vous manqué?’, in Maud Bracke and James Mark, eds, Between Decolonisation and the Cold War: Transnational Activism and Its Limits in Europe, 1950s-1990s, special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History, 50, 3 (2015), 606-631 Download
‘Integration, Again: the Frenchness of a British Nationalist’, review of The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration by David Goodhart, Political Quarterly, 84, 4 (2013), 551-553
Review of The Republic and the Riots: Exploring Urban Violence in French Suburbs, 2005-2007 by Matthew Moran, French Studies, 67, 1 (2013), 141
‘Sans Frontière et Race Today, vecteurs parallèles de l’héritage de l’immigration’, in Louisa Zanoun, ed, Le patrimoine de l’immigration en France et en Europe: enjeu social et culturel, special issue of Migrance (Hors série 2013), 43-56
‘Reaching out to Immigrants in May ’68: Specific or Universal Appeals?’ in Julian Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne and James S. Williams, eds, May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, Palgrave, 2011, 93-108
Review of Paris 1961: Algerians, State Terror and Memory by Jim House and Neil McMaster, English Historical Review, 124, 509 (2009), 1014-1016 Download
‘Review Article: Three New Works by Azouz Begag’, H France Review, 7, 118 (2007), https://www.h-france.net/vol7reviews/vol7no118gordon.pdf
‘The Back Door of the Nation State: Expulsions of Foreigners and Continuity in Twentieth Century France’, Past and Present, 186 (2005), 201-232
‘ ‘‘A Nanterre, ça bouge’’: immigrés et gauchistes en banlieue, 1968 à 1971’, Historiens et Géographes, 385 (2004), 75-86
‘Acteurs trans-méditerranéens dans un quartier cosmopolite. Juifs et musulmans à Belleville (Paris XXe), entre tolérance et conflit’, Cahiers de la Méditerrannée, 67 (2003), 287-298, https://journals.openedition.org/cdlm/135?lang=en
‘World Reactions to the 1961 Paris Pogrom’, University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History, 1 (2000)
Protest & 1968
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‘Des rencontres improbables : étudiants et intellectuels britanniques en France en mai 68’ in Françoise Blum and Guillaume Tronchet, eds, Les passeurs de révolte: étudiants et intellectuels étrangers et postcoloniaux dans la France des années 1968, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2025
(with Craig Hammond) ‘France, May 1968 : Background, Significance and Contemporary Repercussions’, podcast interview, Centre for Educational Research, Liverpool John Moores University, August 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp-I0hg_uj0
Review of La part de l’ombre. Histoire de la clandestinité politique au XXe siècle by Virgile Cirefice, Grégoire Le Quang and Charles Riondet, H-France Review, 21, 64 (2021), https://h-france.net/vol21reviews/vol21no64gordon.pdf
Review of Opening the Gates: the Lip Affair, 1968-1981 by Donald Reid, Modern and Contemporary France, 27, 3 (2019), p. 405-406
‘Talking Out of Revolution: Henri Krasucki and Jacques Chirac's Secret Pigalle Negotiations and the Resolution of the French General Strike of May-June 1968’, Labour History Review, 83, 3 (2018), 219-247 Download
'Commentary on French Historical Studies Special Issue: May ‘68: New Approaches, New Perspectives' H-France Salon, 10, 3 (2018), https://www.h-france.net/Salon/Gordon.pdf
‘How Should We Remember 1968?’, State of Nature Blog, May 2018
(with Camila Granados Pérez) ‘Mayo del 68, el movimiento que sacudió a Francia’, El Tiempo (Colombia), 16 May 2018, https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/europa/que-paso-en-mayo-del-68-en-francia-213394
(with Jae-Jae Spoon, Giuseppina Mecchia, Salar Mohandesi and Chris Reynolds) ‘May 1968: Legacies of Protest in France’, recording of Conversations on Europe Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, March 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gvxs0xDloY
Review of Militant Around the Clock? Left-Wing Youth Politics, Leisure and Sexuality in Post-Dictatorship Greece, 1974-1981 by Nikolaos Papadogiannis, European Review of History/Revue Européenne d'Histoire, 24, 4 (2017), 653-654
‘Tribute to Jacques Sauvageot (1943-2017)’, French History Network Blog, November 2017, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/1574/
Review of Against Old Europe: Critical Theory and Alter-Globalization Movements by Raphael Schlembach, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 24, 1 (2016), 193-194
Review of Après mai by Olivier Assayas, Fiction and Film for Scholars of France, 5, 2 (2014), https://h-france.net/fffh/maybe-missed/olivier-assayas-apres-mai/
Review of Europe’s 1968: Voices of Revolt by Robert Gildea, James Mark and Anette Warring, Modern and Contemporary France, 22, 3 (2014), 411-413
Review of Memories of May ’68: France’s Convenient Consensus' by Chris Reynolds, Modern and Contemporary France, 20, 2 (2012), 276-277
‘Memories of 1968 in France: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary’ in Sarah Waters and Ingo Cornils, eds, Memories of 1968, Peter Lang, 2010, 49-78
‘Review Article: History At Last? 1968-2008’, Modern and Contemporary France, 17 (2009), 335-342
‘Controlling the Streets in May 1968’ in Jessica Wardhaugh, ed, Paris and the Right in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, 104-121
‘Daniel Guérin et le mouvement des travailleurs immigrés en France après 1968’, in David Berry, ed, Daniel Guérin, révolutionnaire en movement(s), special issue of Dissidences, 2 (2007), 197-216
‘Review Article: From May to October: Reassessing the 1968 Generation’, Modern and Contemporary France, 13, 2 (2005), 229-233
‘The Tower of Babel Comes to North London: Reflections From the European Social Forum’, Voice of the Turtle, October 2004, https://web.archive.org/web/20050405170959/http://voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=412 (Part 1) and https://web.archive.org/web/20050405191936/http:/voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=413 (Part 2)
‘ ‘‘Il est recommandé aux étrangers de ne pas participer’’: les étrangers expulsés en mai-juin 1968’, Migrations Société, 88 (2003), 45-65
Parties & Elections
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Review of What Ails France? by Brigitte Granville, Modern and Contemporary France, 31, 3 (2023), 425-426
Review of Riposter à un crime d’Etat. Le rôle méconnu du PSU dans la mobilisation contre la répression de la manifestation du 17 octobre 1961 à Paris by Gilles Manceron, Jean-Francois Merle and Bernard Ravenel, Modern and Contemporary France, 31, 2 (2023), 302-303
‘Unhappy Days: France Votes Under The Shadow Of War’, French History Network Blog, April 2022, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/3188/ (Part 1) and https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/3198/ (Part 2)
Review of Quand la gauche se réinventait. Le PSU, histoire d’un parti visionnaire by Bernard Ravenel, Modern and Contemporary France, 26, 2 (2018), 220-222
‘1969-2017’, French History Network Blog, May 2017, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/1348/
‘Boris Sarkozy and Nigel Le Pen: The Europe of our Nightmares?’, French History Network Blog, June 2016, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/1022/
‘Review Article: Pomp and Circumstance’, Modern and Contemporary France, 23, 2 (2015), 249-255
‘A ‘‘Mediterranean New Left’’? Comparing and Contrasting the French PSU and the Italian PSIUP’, Contemporary European History, 19, 4 (2010), 309-330
‘Le PSU et les luttes de l’immigration: perspectives nationales et internationales’ in Tudi Kernalegenn, François Prigent, Gilles Richard and Jacqueline Sainclivier, eds, Le PSU vu d’en bas: réseaux sociaux, mouvement politique, laboratoire d’idées (années 1950-années 1980), Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2009, 327-336
‘Liquidating May ’68? Generational Trajectories of the 2007 Presidential Candidates’, Modern and Contemporary France, 16 (2008), 143-159
‘Soggy Consensuses, National Republicans and Neo-Bolsheviks’, Voice of the Turtle, April 2002,
https://web.archive.org/web/20041215112833/http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=20
Transport & Cities
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Review of Paris Isn’t Dead Yet: Surviving Gentrification in the City of Light by Cole Stangler, Modern and Contemporary France, 33, 2 (2025), 269-270 Download
Review of Manifs et stations: le métro des militant-e-s by Laurence De Cock and Mathilde Larrère, H-France Review, 23, 185 (2023), https://h-france.net/vol23reviews/vol23_no185_Gordon.pdf
Review of Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways 1914-1939 by Thomas Beaumont, Modern and Contemporary France, 30, 3 (2022), 367-369
‘The Gilets Jaunes and the Moral Economy of Driving’, in Michael Behrent and Diane Labrousse, eds, ‘France’s Yellow Vests: Lessons from a Revolt’, H-Diplo / International Strategic Studies Forum Policy Series, 2-5, 2019, 20-28, https://issforum.org/ISSF/PDF/Policy-Roundtable-2-5.pdf
Review of Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch, Modern and Contemporary France, 26, 1 (2018), 91-93
Review of At Home In Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right To Comfort by Nicole Rudolph, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 25, 3 (2017), 394-396 Download
‘Review Article: Full Speed Ahead? The Trente Glorieuses in a Rear View Mirror’, Contemporary European History, 26, 1 (2017), 189-199 Download
‘L’économie morale des banlieusards: aux origines de la <<crise des transports>> des années 1970 en France’, Vingtième Siècle, 126 (2015), 119-131
Review of The Transport Debate by Jon Shaw and Iain Docherty, Political Quarterly, 86, 4 (2015), 577-579
Review of The Thinking Space: The Café as a Cultural Institution in Paris, Italy and Vienna by Leona Rittner, Scott Haine and Jeffrey Jackson, Modern and Contemporary France, 23, 1 (2015), 125-127
Teaching
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(with Ludivine Broch, Louisa Zanoun, Florence Robles and Itay Lotem) ‘La Haine, 30 Years Later’, French Talk Podcast, May 2025, https://rss.com/podcasts/french-talk/2048202/
(with Ludivine Broch, Katty Jacob and Florence Robles), ‘Introducing French Talk: French at A-Level and University’, French Talk Podcast, November 2024, https://rss.com/podcasts/french-talk/1732073/
‘What Have Historians Been Arguing About … Immigration in French History’, Teaching History, 195 (2024)
‘Round Table: Rod Kedward and His Legacy’, French History, 38, 2 (2024), 252-272
‘An Analogue Historian Goes Digital in the ‘New Normal’’, French History Network Blog, May 2021, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/2900/
‘1989-1991: The Birth of Contemporary Europe?’, introductory lecture, Student Conference: 1989-1991: The Birth of Contemporary Europe?, Edge Hill University, March 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J2nYnpxXbc (Part 1 – Eastern & Central Europe), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMDZBiWquQU (Part 2 – Western Europe) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-PGe4X2cCw and (Part 3 – The UK)
‘Historians in Lockdown: The Covid Diary of Dr Daniel Gordon: On Not Doing Things, Or, It’s Décroissance, Jim – But Not As We Know It!’, French History Network Blog, May 2020, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/2291/
‘Reinterpreting 1968: the Case of France’, Teaching History, 162 (2016)
‘French Historians Under the Spotlight: Dr Daniel Gordon’, French History Network Blog, February 2016, https://frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/827/