This is an evolving listing of political theorists working in the broad area of political theory in Ireland. Dublin City University School of Law and Government Research interests: Rawls; education; Rousseau; republicanism; non-domination; religion; Philip Pettit; Law NUI Galway Child and Family Research Centre Allyn Fives ajfives@yahoo.co.uk; allyn.fives@nuigalway.ie Research interests: the concept of reasonableness in Rawls’s later work; moral pluralism; public reason; MacIntyre’s work on virtues and goods; the moral and political status of young people; civic education; global distributive justice NUI Galway School of Law Tom Hickey tompshickey@gmail.com Research interests: political philosophy;
religious and cultural diversity; citizenship and civic education;
constitutional law and human rights law NUI Galway Department of Philosophy Richard Hull Richard.Hull@nuigalway.ie Research interests: political theory, ethics, biomedical ethics, disability issues, new genetic technologies
NUI Galway School of Sociology and Political Science Pete Morriss Pete.morriss@nuigalway.ie Research interests: contemporary analytic political philosophy, particularly applied to selected policy issues; power and freedom Oliver Feeney oliver.p.feeney@nuigalway.ie Research interests: social and political implications of new genetic technologies; biology and politics; non-ideal theory and the ethos of social solidarity
NUI Maynooth Philosophy Department Mette Lebech Mette.Lebech@nuim.ie Research interests: theory and phenomenology of the state; state, ethics, morality; human dignity Queen’s University Belfast School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy John Barry Research interests: Arendt, Habermas and MacIntyre; the philosophy/ethics of work; coercion and democratic politics. Vincent Geoghegan v.geoghegan@qub.ac.uk Research interests: utopianism, post-secularism, Ernst Bloch, socialism, Irish Political Thought Jonathan L. Gorman j.gorman@qub.ac.uk Research interests: the philosophies of history; law, morality and politics Cillian McBride c.mcbride@qub.ac.uk Research interests: recognition, political autonomy, deliberative democracy, legitimacy, republicanism, political liberalism Susan McManus Shane O’Neill s.oneill@qub.ac.uk Research interests: critical social theory; justice; democracy; equality; conflict resolution Queen’s University Belfast School of Law John Morison j.morison@qub.ac.uk Research interests: democracy, e-democracy and e-government; constitutions and conflict; transnational governance Rory O’Connell r.oconnell@qub.ac.uk Research interests: human rights theory; human rights and democracy; equality Ciarán O’Kelly c.okelly@qub.ac.uk Research interests: corporate governance; accountability and corporate personhood Sara Ramshaw s.ramshaw@qub.ac.uk Research interests: justice as improvisation, Derrida, critical legal theory St Mary’s University College BelfastResearch interests: Feminist theory (especially Judith Butler and Julia Kristeva); radical democracy; identity, embodiment and affect; political philosophies of conflict, violence and remembrance. St Patrick's College Drumcondra Education Department Joe Dunne Joe.Dunne@spd.dcu.ie
Research interests: Citizenship and civic education; Aristotle, MacIntyre and Arendt Jones Irwin jones.irwin@spd.dcu.ie Research interests: education and politics;
anarchism; postmodernism; multiculturalism; political cinema; Freire; Derrida;
situationism; Ranciere; Breillat; Zizek
Trinity College Dublin Department of Philosophy Antti Kauppinen a.kauppinen@gmail.com; kauppina@tcd.ie Research interests: equality, recognition, human rights, republicanism, and exploitation Trinity College Dublin Department of Politics Research interests: Contemporary political theory, with particular interest in theories of justice, democratic theory, rational choice theory, and the philosophy of social science University College Cork Department of Government Laurence Davis l.davis@ucc.ie; ldavis@oceanfree.net Research interests: utopian political thought; anarchism; democratic and revolutionary theory; the political theory of social change; the political theories of art, work, and love.School of Sociology and Philosophy Vittorio Bufacchi V.Bufacchi@ucc.ie Research interests: social injustice; human rights; violence; torture Jason Dockstader J.Dockstader@ucc.ie Research interests: history of political philosophy, especially early modern (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza); political realism Alfred MooreResearch interests: territorial rights, global justice, climate change, legitimate political authority, global moral responsibility, moral arbitrariness in political theory, property rights Desmond Clarke clarkedesmond@gmail.com Research interests: nationalism; causation in law; church & state University College Dublin Earth Institute Maire Brophy maire.brophy@ucd.ie Research interests: republicanism, international political theory, human rights, conflict and war, humanitarian intervention, the state and sovereignty
University College Dublin School of Philosophy Gerard Casey gerard.casey@ucd.ie Research interests: libertarian anarchism as a challenge to the legitimacy of the state University College Dublin School of Politics and International Relations Graham Finlay graham.finlay@ucd.ie Research interests: international justice; human rights; migration; citizenship and development education; history of political thought, especially John Stuart Mill Iseult Honohan iseult.honohan@ucd.ie Research interests: republican political theory, diversity, citizenship and immigration Attracta Ingram Attracta.ingram@ucd.ie Research interests: legal and political and social theory, with special interests in cosmopolitanism, nationalism, Rawls, and human rights. Kieran Oberman Kieran.oberman@ucd.ie Research interests:the ethics of immigration policy; just war theory, international distributive justice, and the ethics of charitable givingUniversity College Dublin School of Social Justice Research interests: equality studies, especially theory of equality and democratic theory Katherine O’Donnell katherine.odonnell@ucd.ie Research interests: political thought of Edmund Burke, feminist cultural theory, queer theory University College Dublin School of Sociology Sinisa Malesevic sinisa.malesevic@ucd.ie Research interests: war and organised violence, nationalism and theories of ideology University of Limerick Department of Politics and Public Administration Andrew Shorten andrew.shorten@ul.ie Research interests: theories of justice; liberalism; multiculturalism; nationalism; citizenship; pluralism; toleration. Research interests: Gramsci, neo-Gramsican approaches to international politcs; hegemony; Marxism University of Ulster School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy Fidelma Ashe f.ashe@ulster.ac.uk Research interests: feminist theory, critical studies of masculinities and contemporary political theory University of Ulster School of Law Eugene Mc Namee e.mcnamee@ulster.ac.uk Research interests: genocide, bio-politics,
international law/criminology, post-colonialism, political anthropology,
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