Coventry University

Faculty Member, International Studies and Social Science

About

I am currently Senior Lecturer in international relations theory at Coventry University.

My research interests lie at the intersection of anarchism, international relations and ethics. I gained my PhD from Loughborough University in 2008, was a teaching fellow at the University of Bath that same year and held a research post there the following year. From 2009-2010 I held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Bristol before moving to the LSE where I was a Fellow in International Political Theory from 2010-2012. 

My doctoral research provided the first thoroughly contextualised exegesis of the international political theory of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865). Despite the concept of anarchy being at the heart of the contemporary study of international relations, and despite having penned six books on the subject of international relations, Proudhon's anarchism has been completely ignored by the discipline. My publications to date set out Proudhon's thought and reflect on the significance of his absence in IR.

A forum in Millennium, Journal of International Studies in 2010 on 'Anarchism and World Politics' brings together a collection of articles that pushes this research agenda forward by opening up IR to insights and ideas drawn from the work of Kropotkin, contemporary direct action groups, from complexity theory and green anarchism, and more.

I am a founder member of the Political Studies Association's Anarchist Studies Network, an associate editor of the academic journal Anarchist Studies and co-edit the new peer-reviewed monograph series 'Contemporary Anarchist Studies', published by Continuum Books.

I have a broader interest in socialist praxis as such. I am also currently the lead editor of a collection of essays on the intersections between anarchism and marxism over the past century that will be published by Palgrave in September 2012.