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Political thought & theory
Parent category: Politics & Society
Dr Ilan Zvi Baron
Lecturer, School of Government and International Affairs
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 47221
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Specialist expertise:
- Death and the ethics of war
- Diaspora Politics
- Dual loyalty or the problem of holding multiple allegiances to conflicting states or political communities.
- International Relations Theory
- Philosophy and Global Politics, focusing on multiculturalism, human diversity, ethics and the politics of identity.
- Political Obligation
- Political Philosophy of International Relations
- The connections between identity, obligation and security.
- Zionism
Dr Thom Brooks
Reader, Durham Law School
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44365
Associate , Department of Philosophy
Centre for the History of Political Thought
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- British Idealism
- British politics
- Capabilities
- Capital Punishment
- Citizenship
- Criminal Justice
- Criminal Law
- German Idealism
- Global Justice
- Hegel
- Immigration
- Jurisprudence
- Jury Trial
- Justice
- Kant
- Life in the UK test
- Plato
- Political Communication
- Political Philosophy
- Political Strategy
- Punishment
- Rawls
- Restorative Justice
- Sentencing
Dr Gleider I Hernandez
Lecturer, Durham Law School
Human Rights Centre
Law and Conflict at Durham
Islam, Law and Modernity
Specialist expertise:
- Public International Law: the law regulating international relations, the United Nations, and all matters of international concern.
Dr Caspar Hewett
Research Associate, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43481
Mobile telephone: +44 (0)7790 470846
Specialist expertise:
- The notion of progress - I am interested in how the idea has become almost solely associated with technological change and divorced from the idea of social change in an era when the few belive that social and political change are possible.
Professor Max Paddison
Professor, Department of Music
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43153
Department of Philosophy
Specialist expertise:
- Adorno's philosophy and sociology of music
- Frankfurt School Critical Theory
- Marxism and Music
Dr Robert Song
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religion
Telephone: 0191 33 43959
Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics, Law and the Life Sciences)
Specialist expertise:
- biotechnology/genetic engineering
- Christianity and politics
- ethics in biotechnology/genetic engineering
Dr Samuel Thomas
Lecturer, Department of English Studies
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 46577
Mobile telephone: + 44 (0) 776 9722132
Home telephone: +44 (0)191 3869879
Specialist expertise:
- Critical Theory (especially the Frankfurt School and Slavoj Žižek)
- Literature and Terrorism
- Models of resistance politics in modern and contemporary fiction
- Thomas Pynchon