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Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem? (2018)
Journal Article
Allen. (2018). Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem?. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 722-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2018.1544732

Metaphysics has a problem with plurality: in many areas of discourse, there are too many good theories, rather than just one. This embarrassment of riches is a particular problem for metaphysical realists who want metaphysics to tell us the way the w... Read More about Can metaphysical structuralism solve the plurality problem?.

An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946) (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946). Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 909-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2018.1519244

Before the Second World War it was a cardinal Commonwealth principle that intra-imperial disputes must be kept away from international fora. Yet in 1946 the not-yet-independent India complained to the United Nations about South African legislation di... Read More about An acutely embarrassing affair: Whitehall and the Indian-South African dispute at the United Nations (1946).

What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland (2018)
Journal Article
Simpson. (2018). What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland. Irish Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2018.1499620

This paper investigates individual’s perceptions of inequality and the impact this has on mass public opinion support for the European Union (EU) in the Republic of Ireland. This question is posed in the context of the onset of the economic and finan... Read More about What to do about inequality? Public opinion support for the European Union and further European integration in the Republic of Ireland.

MacIntyre and green political thought: deliberative eco-politics for dependent rational animals (2018)
Thesis
Simcock, A. MacIntyre and green political thought: deliberative eco-politics for dependent rational animals. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/411426

Ecologism is a political ideology that emerged in the 1970s. It challenged the neoliberal privileging of economic growth over environmental protection and a narrow conception of the self as autonomous, rational and self-interested. Ecologism’s normat... Read More about MacIntyre and green political thought: deliberative eco-politics for dependent rational animals.

Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre. Urban Planning, https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v3i2.1343

Henri Lefebvre’s project, developed over decades of research produced a corpus of work that sought to reprioritise the fundamental role of space in the experience and practice of social life. His assertion that there is ‘politics of space’ provides a... Read More about Lefebvre’s Politics of Space: Planning the Urban as Oeuvre.

Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization. Journal of Common Market Studies, 1263-1283. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12740

The involvement of subnational actors in EU politics has become an increasingly recognized facet of European integration. However, this highlights an interesting puzzle: subnational authorities in unitary and centralized polities usually lack formal... Read More about Subnational government and transnational networking: the rationalist logic of local level Europeanization.

Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion. International Political Sociology, 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olx024

International relations scholars are increasingly paying attention to “the emotional” as a way to understand global politics. What is often missing from these conversations is feminist knowledge on affect, and also discussions about methodology. By p... Read More about Affect as Methodology: Feminism and the politics of emotion.