Members and contacts

Dr Monica Mookherjee | Cluster Lead
Senior Lecturer in Politics

Interests in political theories of multiculturalism and recognition; religious diversity and human rights; critical social theory; all aspects of feminist philosophy.
CBA 1.026 | +44 (0) 1782 733213
m.mookherjee@keele.ac.uk

Professor Sorin Baiasu
Faculty Postgraduate Research (PGR) Director, Professor of Philosophy

Interests in analytic political philosophy (in particular, the relation between justice and desert), history of political thought (especially, Kant’s political philosophy), political normativity (justification of norms in various traditions: liberalism, pragmatism, communitarianism, deliberative theories, agonism)
CBA 2.001 | +44 (0) 1782 733591
s.baiasu@keele.ac.uk

Dr Marit Hammond
Lecturer in Politics

Interests in normative democratic theory (esp. deliberative democracy, associative democracy); green political theory; critical theory; ideal and non-ideal theory.
CBB 2.010 | +44 (0) 1782 7 33214
m.boeker@keele.ac.uk

Dr Moran Mandelbaum
Lecturer in International Relations

Interests in IR theory, critical security studies, nationalism, emotions and affect, and Israel/Palestine. I am specifically interested in the ways in which various signifiers and discursive projects are able to appeal emotionally to people and entail a bodily affect as part of the process of interpellation. Drawing on psychoanalysis and the works of Slavoj Žižek, I maintain that ‘empty signifiers’ can be successful in hailing people into their socio-political project precisely because they are vague, inconsistent, paradoxical and endless (fantasmatic).
CBA 1.034 | +44 (0) 1782 733513
m.mandelbaum@keele.ac.uk

Dr Barry Ryan
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

Interests in spatial strategies of security and the maritime environment; implications for IR theory of a critical politics of the sea.
CBA 1.036 | +44 (0) 1782 733354
b.j.ryan@keele.ac.uk

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