Career
He has published widely on international politics and Empire. He wrote The Aborigines" Protection Society, 1837-1909 (Hurst, 2011) and An Unpatriotic History of the Second World War (ZER0, 2012). Heartfield has been critical of government policies on the creative industries, talking and writing on the illusions of the knowledge economy.
Nick Bell named Heartfield as "one of the most important commentators on design".
In May 2006, with Julia Svetlichnaja he interviewed the Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko. The interviews were published after Litvinenko"s death.
"Further Adventures in Intersectionality". The Charnel House, January 2014
"Intersectional? Or just Sectarian?" Mute, 27 November 2013
"The Russian security services Ethnic Division and the Elimination of Moscow"s Chechen Business Class in the 1990s".
Critique, Volume 36, Issue 3 December 2008, pages 385-402
"Cr Crunch or Carbon Crunch", a debate for the Institute of Directors, 29 October 2008
2, 2008
"The Golden Age or a Lot of Hot Air?" A debate with Arts Council Chief Executive Peter Hewitt and journalist Dan Atkinson at the Creative Clusters conference, London, 14 November 2007
"Town and Country", All Planned Out: the Worldwide Impact of the TCPA, Building Centre, 19 May 2007
"Interviewing Litvinenko", Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, 30 January 2007
"Sprawl", Democracy Club, 14 November 2006
"Superbia", Kingston University Suburban Studies Dayschool, September 2006
"Farewell to the City", Rural Futures conference, Plymouth, 6 April 2006.