Ruth Levitas

6.3k citations

56 papers · 3.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 22

Impact in

Finance top 1%
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Public Administration top 2%

Papers in

Finance 8
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism 8
Sociology and Political Science 31
- Political Economy and Marxism 14
- Critical Theory and Philosophy 4
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics 2

Co-authors: Christina Pantazis David Gordon Eldin Fahmy Eva Lloyd Jo Garcia Harriet Bradley Julia Frost Lindsay Smith
Journals: Critical Social Policy (4 papers)History of the Human Sciences (3 papers)The Sociological Review (3 papers)Sociology (3 papers)British Journal of Sociology (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Austria

In The Last Decade

Ruth Levitas

52 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Utopia as Method 2013 · 286 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1998 Bristol Research (University of Bristol)

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	There's no such thing as 'the economy', stupid: using Utopia to imagine society 'after money'. PubMed ·Ruth Levitas	2023	3
2	The Just’s Umbrella: Austerity and the Big Society in Coalition policy and beyond Critical Social Policy ·Ruth Levitas	2012	110
3	The Concept of Utopia Explore Bristol Research ·Ruth Levitas	2010	158
4	The Peter Townsend Reader Alan Walker, David Gordon, Ruth Levitas, Peter Phillimore, Chris Phillipson, Margot E. Salomon, Nicola Yeates	2010	4
5	La Esperanza Utópica: Ernst Bloch y la reivindicación del futuro LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) ·Ruth Levitas	2008	2
6	The loss of possibility: scientisation of death and the special case of early miscarriage Sociology of Health & Illness ·Julia Frost, Harriet Bradley, Ruth Levitas, Lindsay Smith, Jo Garcia	2007	86
7	Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: The Millennium Survey Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Christina Pantazis, David Gordon, Ruth Levitas	2006	128
8	Let's hear it for Humpty: social exclusion, the third way and cultural capital Cultural Trends ·Ruth Levitas	2004	67
9	Shuffling Back to Equality? Soundings ·Ruth Levitas	2004	3
10	On Dialectical Utopianism History of the Human Sciences ·Ruth Levitas	2003	15
11	Pauvreté, exclusion sociale et redistribution : la réponse britannique Raisons politiques ·Ruth Levitas	2002	1
12	The Inclusive Society? Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks ·Ruth Levitas	1998	116
13	'Who Holds the Hose?' Domestic Labour in the Work of Bellamy, Gilman and Morris Utopian Studies ·Ruth Levitas	1995	5
14	Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980 British Journal of Sociology ·Ruth Levitas, Mark T. Bates	1995	10
15	Educated Hope: Ernst Bloch on Abstract and Concrete Utopia Utopian Studies ·Ruth Levitas	1991	71
16	Book Reviews: The Consequences of Modernity, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique, Reactions to the Right, The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context, Media Theory: An Introduction, Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture, On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word, The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies, Interpreting the Past, Understanding the Present, Hard Lessons: The Lives and Education of Working-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century England, New Professions, Old Order: Engineers and German Society 1815–1914, We are Not French! Language, Culture and Identity in Brittany, After 200 Years. Photographic Essays of Aboriginal and Islander Australia Today, Home Ownership: Differentiation and Fragmentation, Property and Power in a City: The Sociological Significance of Landlordism., Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia: Contradictory Pressures, Uneasy Resolutions, Women, Food and Families, Child Labour, Unmasking Masculinity, Men, Masculinities and Social Theory, O Loma!; Constituting a Self (1977–1984) The Sociological Review ·David Jary, Mike Savage, Ruth Levitas, David Lyon, David Chaney, Mark Jancovich, Tia DeNora, Sharon Macdonald, Peter Burke, Anne Witz, Keith Tribe, Cris Shore, Bryan S. Turner, David McCrone, John Allen, Sebastian Frankl, Alan Prout, Allison James, Ragunandan Nadig, Zygmunt Bauman	1991	1
17	Marxism, Romanticism and Utopia: Ernst Bloch and William Morris Radical philosophy ·Ruth Levitas	1989	4
18	The Ideology of the New Right Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Ruth Levitas	1986	90
19	New Right utopias Radical philosophy ·Ruth Levitas	1985	1
20	Dystopian Times? The Impact of the Death of Progress on Utopian Thinking Theory Culture & Society ·Ruth Levitas	1982	8

About Ruth Levitas

Ruth Levitas is a scholar working on Finance, Sociology and Political Science, General Social Sciences, Philosophy and Urban Studies, having authored 56 papers that have together received 3.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Political Economy and Marxism (14 papers), Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (8 papers), Critical Theory and Philosophy (4 papers), Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction (3 papers), Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 papers), Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 papers), Homelessness and Social Issues (2 papers) and Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Finance (524 citations), Public Administration (152 citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.8k citations), Urban Studies (243 citations) and Health (292 citations). Ruth Levitas has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Christina Pantazis, David Gordon, David Gordon, Eldin Fahmy, Eva Lloyd, Jo Garcia, Harriet Bradley, Julia Frost, Lindsay Smith and Lucy Sargisson. Their work appears in journals such as Critical Social Policy, History of the Human Sciences, The Sociological Review, Sociology and British Journal of Sociology.

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