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Research interests
Clare Woodford is Principal Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) School of Humanities, University of Brighton; director of the CAPPE Critical Theory research group strand; degree leader for BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Ethics; and co-editor of Rowman and Littlefield’s Polemics series. She is the author of articles and chapters on democratic disorientation and ambivalence, the work of Rancière, Butler, Cavell, Honig, Rawls, Laclau and Foucault with respect to performance, extremism, transnational populism, democratic activism and the ethics of friendship. Her first book Disorienting democracy: politics of emancipation (London; Routledge) juxtaposed Rancière’s thought with that of Butler, Cavell, Menke and Derrida to draw out the practical implications of his writing for emancipatory politics. She is currently working on a second book on love and desire in democratic theories of the subject. Clare works at the interstices of political philosophy, poststructuralism and democratic theory. Questioning the division between theory and practice, passivity and action, she rethinks ethics, education, literature and aesthetics for a powerful conceptualization of democracy as ongoing egalitarian emancipatory struggle.
Clare’s research is primarily motivated by concern about the relationship between inequality and violence and unrest and how this plays out in advanced capitalist democracy. In a more general sense she is fascinated by concepts of social order and disorder; finitude and the edges of being and knowledge; the inter-play of faith, reason, belief and action; performance and politics and the varied ways in which social animals communicate with one another and both make themselves (or fail to make themselves) understood and how we seek (or fail to seek) to understand others.
Clare is available to supervise PhDs in any of the above areas. Please email enquiries to c.woodford@brighton.ac.uk.
Current PhD funding opportunities:
http://www.southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply/
http://www.techne.ac.uk/
Supervisory Interests
I welcome enquiries for doctoral research. Successful applicants join CAPPE's thriving Critical Theory research community and benefit from our international exchange programme and research network with Johns Hopkins; Berkeley, UoC; NUI Galway; PoliTesse/Arendt Centre, Verona; University of Buenos Aires; University of Recife; and UNAM. I currently supervise in the areas of radical democratic theory; populism; post-Marxism; poststructuralist thought; queer theory; and housing, but will consider applications across any area of my work. Current competitive funding opportunities are available through University of Brighton; AHRC http://www.techne.ac.uk/; and ESRC https://www.southcoastdtp.ac.uk/; current call: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/2019-scdtp-solutions-housing-crisis.aspx
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of Southampton
External positions
Philosophy Chair, Arts and Humanities Research Council
1 Jan 2019 → …Reviewer, DAAD
1 Jan 2019 → …Member, AHRC Techne Peer Review College
1 Sep 2018 → …Co-editor, Rowman and Littlefield Int.
4 Jan 2016 → …AHRC Peer Review College
1 Jan 2016 → 1 Jan 2021Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Higher Education Academy, UK
1 Jul 2011 → …Keywords
- JC Political theory
- democracy
- ethics
- aesthetics
- queer theory
- equality
- poststructuralism
- critical theory
- continental thought
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Research Output 2012 2019
Davide Panagia: Ranciere's Sentiments
Woodford, C., 10 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Review of Politics. 81, 2, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book Review
Logics of Revolt: Laclau and Ranciere
Devenney, M. & Woodford, C., 1 Jun 2019, (Accepted/In press) Populism: the logic of revolt or a revolt against logic?. Stagnell, A. & Payne, D. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter
Giving Life to Politics: Ethics of sex, nonviolence and the body
Woodford, C., Huzar, T., Devenney, M., Butler, J., Honig, B., Cavarero, A., Guaraldo, O., Bernini, L., Battersby, C. & Forti, S., 1 Aug 2018, (Accepted/In press) Fordham University Press. 230 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited
Hatred and Democracy? Populism in Europe
Woodford, C., 1 Jul 2018, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements. Feenstra, R. & Fominaya, C. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter
Is democracy dead or alive? What democracy exactly are we supposed to nourish?
Woodford, C., Gagnon, J-P. & Urbinati, N., 2 Feb 2018, The Conversation Trust UK.Research output: Other contribution
Activities 2016 2019
Post-redemption politics
Clare Woodford (Presenter)Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
The Analytic Continental Divide
Clare Woodford (Presenter)Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Debt, dependency, emancipation
Clare Woodford (Invited presenter), Gulshan Khan (Presenter)Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Democracy, Paradox, Property
Clare Woodford (Presenter)Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
Jaume I University
Clare Woodford (Visiting researcher)Activity: Visiting position › Visiting an external academic institution