- Barbara Arneil
- Anna Jurkevics
- Sam LaSelva
- Mark Warren
- Afsoun Afsahi
- Bruce Baum
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:
- “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:
- "Toleration without Hate Speech: The Keegstra Decision, American Free Speech, and Locke's Letter," Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2015
- "Selling Oneself Into Slavery: Mill and Paternalism," Political Studies, 1987
See Samuel LaSelva's full profile here
Key Publications:
- Nietzsche and Political Thought, 1988.
- “Max Weber’s Liberalism for a Nietzschean World.” American Political Science Review, 1988.
- “Liberal Constitutionalism as Ideology: Marx and Habermas.” Political Theory, 1989.
See Mark Warren'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
Faculty
Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster receives Catalyzing Research Clusters Grant
March 22, 2024
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Announcement, Job Opportunities
We’re Hiring: Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy (Professor)
April 12, 2023
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Announcement, Job Opportunities
UBC Political Science is looking to fill up to two Lecturer positions
April 12, 2023
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