Dr Luke Ulas
Department of Politics and International Relations
Lecturer in Political Theory
+44 114 222 1656
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Department of Politics and International Relations
G51
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- Profile
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I joined the Department of Politics in September 2017. I did my undergraduate degree in Philosophy, also at the University of Sheffield, before completing an MA in Global Ethics at King's College London and a PhD in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to returning to Sheffield, I held postdoctoral positions at Goethe University Frankfurt (with the 'Justitia Amplificata' programme) and Durham University.
I have research interests in the political theory of cosmopolitanism and global political theory more widely, as well as in methodological questions in political theory.
- Research interests
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My research to date has focused primarily on global political theory, and in particular the normative theory of cosmopolitanism. Alongside this, I have also developed an interest in the relevance of human nature and political psychology to the practice of normative political theory. I am now beginning work on a book manuscript that combines these two interests, provisionally entitled Human Nature and Cosmopolitics.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Can political realism be action-guiding?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- Solidarity with refugees : an institutional approach. Journal of Social Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- Legitimacy, Metacoordination and Context-Dependence. International Theory: a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, 11(1), 81-109. View this article in WRRO
- Institutionalising Kant's political philosophy: Foregrounding cosmopolitan right. European Journal of Political Theory. View this article in WRRO
- Are the people thinking what Miller's thinking?. CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY, 17(1), 91-96. View this article in WRRO
- Transforming (but not transcending) the state system? On statist cosmopolitanism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20(6), 1-20. View this article in WRRO
- Who cares what the people think? Revisiting David Miller’s approach to theorising about justice. Contemporary Political Theory. View this article in WRRO
- Doing things by halves: on intermediary global institutional proposals. Ethics and Global Politics, 9(1). View this article in WRRO
- Cosmopolitanism, Self-Interest and World Government. Political Studies, 64(1_suppl), 105-120. View this article in WRRO
- Miller's Models and their Applicability to Nations. Theoria, 58(129). View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Global community as a response to the cosmopolitan solidarity problem In Enroth H & Brommesson D (Ed.), Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges
- Can political realism be action-guiding?. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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I would be very happy to supervise theses in the area of cosmopolitanism and global political theory more widely.
- Grants
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- 2019 Leverhulme Research Fellowship (Human Nature and the Prospects for Cosmopolitics) £51,262
- Teaching activities
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It is a continual privilege to be able to discuss matters of political theory with my students. A major goal, as I see it, in teaching political theory is to contribute to the development of students’ ability and motivation to engage with society’s political issues insightfully, productively, even-handedly, and critically.
I am on research leave for the academic year 2019/20 and therefore not currently teaching any modules.