Key Publications:
- Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought, 2024
- “The Liberal Rammohun Roy: A History of Indian Intellectual History,” The Cambridge Companion to Rammohun Roy
- “What is Colonialism? The Dual Claims of a Twentieth-Century Political Category,” American Political Science Review
Courses: POLI 523B Toward a Global History of Political Thought (Fall 2023)
See Nazmul Sultan's full profile here
Key Publications:
- Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony
- John Locke and America: The Defence of English Colonization
- 'Disability, Self Image and Modern Political Theory', Political Theory, 2009.
Current projects: Jeremy Bentham, Pauperism, Colonialism and Imperialism
See Barbara Arneil's full profile here.
Key Publications:
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Red skin, white masks: Rejecting the colonial politics of recognition, 2014
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"Place against empire: Understanding Indigenous anti-colonialism," Affinities, 2010
- "Subjects of empire: Indigenous peoples and the 'politics of recognition'in Canada", Contemporary Political Theory, 2007
See Glen Coulthard's full research profile here.
Key Publications:
- “Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: a dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins,” European Journal of Political Theory, 2017.
- “Hannah Arendt liest Carl Schmitts Der Nomos der Erde: Ein Dialog über Gesetz und Geopolitik anhand ihrer Marginalien,” HannahArendt.net Zeitschrift für politisches Denken, 2016.
- “Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: a dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins,” European Journal of Political Theory, 2017.
Current courses: Topics in Political Theory: Contested Territory
Current research projects: “Westphalia and the Hidden Tradition of Contested Territory,” (book chapter and working paper).
See Anna Jurkevics's full profile here
Key Publications:
“Kantian democracy: interdependence, legitimacy, and progress.” Telos, 2019.
See Afsoun Afsahi's full profile here
Key Publications:
- Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S. Mill
- Editor: Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 years Later
See Bruce Baum's full profile here
Research News
Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster receives Catalyzing Research Clusters Grant
We’re Hiring: Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy (Professor)
UBC Political Science is looking to fill up to two Lecturer positions