Shannon Brincat
I am a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the Sunshine Coast. I have been the editor of a number of collections, most recently of the Special Issue of Globalizations ‘Dialectics and World Politics’, Recognition, Conflict and the Problem of Ethical Community (forthcoming Routledge 2015) and the three volume series Communism in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2014). I am also to co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse. My current research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism; dialectics; tyrannicide; climate change justice; and Critical Theory. I have had articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies and Constellations, amongst others.
Broadly, my research interests are focused on critical and normative approaches to International Relations and Political Theory. My work involves the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School, particularly its Kantian, Hegelian, Marxian approaches to emancipation, through to recognition theory, anarchism and New Cosmopolitanism today, and the nexus points with other heterodox/critical approaches to world politics. My work also concerns the democratization of global governance and questions of global justice. This involves examining the linkages between global governance, cosmopolitanism, and democracy, through the analysis of global responses to climate change and responses to tyranny and tyrannicide. I am also interested in the study of global futures, developing a dialectical approach to the study of change in global social-life, and re-engaging with imagination and Utopianism in theory and practice. I am working on a number of projects focused on these themes, all of which share the concern with a central premise: understanding the processes of transformation in the social relations of world politics.
Currently, I am attempting to complete two manuscripts. The first concerns Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism and the reconstruction of the project of emancipation in Critical Theory. This manuscript examines the idea of emancipation within the work of Kant, Hegel, Marx, the Frankfurt School and into Critical International Relations Theory (CIRT) through the work of Linklater, Cox and others. It argues that recognition theory may serve as a means to extend the emancipatory project of Critical Theory in world politics. The second examines the problem of tyranny and tyrannicide in world politics. This manuscripts examines the philosophical, ethical, legal, historical and political sources of legitimation of the practice of tyrannicide in contemporary IR.
Broadly, my research interests are focused on critical and normative approaches to International Relations and Political Theory. My work involves the critical social theory of the Frankfurt School, particularly its Kantian, Hegelian, Marxian approaches to emancipation, through to recognition theory, anarchism and New Cosmopolitanism today, and the nexus points with other heterodox/critical approaches to world politics. My work also concerns the democratization of global governance and questions of global justice. This involves examining the linkages between global governance, cosmopolitanism, and democracy, through the analysis of global responses to climate change and responses to tyranny and tyrannicide. I am also interested in the study of global futures, developing a dialectical approach to the study of change in global social-life, and re-engaging with imagination and Utopianism in theory and practice. I am working on a number of projects focused on these themes, all of which share the concern with a central premise: understanding the processes of transformation in the social relations of world politics.
Currently, I am attempting to complete two manuscripts. The first concerns Emancipatory Cosmopolitanism and the reconstruction of the project of emancipation in Critical Theory. This manuscript examines the idea of emancipation within the work of Kant, Hegel, Marx, the Frankfurt School and into Critical International Relations Theory (CIRT) through the work of Linklater, Cox and others. It argues that recognition theory may serve as a means to extend the emancipatory project of Critical Theory in world politics. The second examines the problem of tyranny and tyrannicide in world politics. This manuscripts examines the philosophical, ethical, legal, historical and political sources of legitimation of the practice of tyrannicide in contemporary IR.
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