Musician and philosopher Mark Abel works on the aesthetics of popular music and teaches in the areas of global politics and international relations, in particular, the world order in the post-Cold War period, and the resistance movements of the twenty-first century against corporate globalisation and neo-liberalism.
With a background in literary history and cultural discourse, Cathy Bergin's research focuses on the historical discourses of black Communist radicalism and their relationship to literary and cultural representations of black political identity. She teaches in politics, philosophy and aesthetics.
Graham Dawson works on the cultural memory of war and conflict and problems of 'dealing with the past' within post-conflict cultures in terms of representation, trauma, contested space, historical justice, and human rights. His publications include Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities, and Making Peace with the Past? Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles.
Mark Devenney leads the Humanities programme. His research interests include contemporary political philosophy, post-Marxism, the politics of post-colonialism, post-apartheid literature and the politics of life and death. His teaching includes courses on Marx and Freud.
Robin Dunford works on practices and theories of transnational resistance, with a particular focus on how practices of resistance re-orient understandings of human rights, citizenship, democracy and emancipation. He has written on practices of autonomous peasant resistance, focusing both on grass roots practices of land occupations and on transnational demands for rights to food sovereignty.
Tom Hickey's work is on aspects of political and artistic representation, on the theorisation of the contemporary world order, and on new developments in critical theory. His teaching includes philosophical analysis, the conceptual history of democracy and the critical traditions in Western thought.
An authority on globalisation, Paul Hopper's research and teaching interests focus particularly on globalisation in relation to religion, cultural conflict, global governance, development and the environment.
A lecturer in politics and philosophy, Andy Knott works in an interdisciplinary manner, largely combining political theory, history, and philosophy. His interests include post- and neo-Marxism, discourse theory economic forms of ‘identity’, including notions of the multitude, class, and the individual.
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Dr Michael Neu is a moral and political philosopher and teaches within the humanities across philosophy, politics and ethics. Michael has published on contemporary just war theory and the theme of “complicity”. His book on Just Liberal Violence: Sweatshops, Torture, War is forthcoming, as is a second book on Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique (with Robin Dunford).
Anita Rupprecht lectures across the Humanities courses. Her primary research interests are in cultural and literary histories of British transatlantic slavery and abolition, postcolonial literature and theory, and the politics of cultural memory.
Gillian Scott is a British social historian whose research is concerned with the relationship between feminist ideas and the organisation of working-class women, particularly within the co-operative and labour movements. She is the author of .Feminism and the Politics of Working Women..
Jon Watson works on the history of the struggle for black equality in the United States. His research concentrates on the experience of African-American civil rights activists and race leaders as they sought to challenge discrimination and further opportunities in the multi-racial environment of Southern California during the twentieth century.
Research interests include theories of gender, ideology and pedagogy, Marxism and post-Marxism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, democratic struggle, activism and the arts, and performance studies.
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