Articles

Open access versions of most of my scholarly works can be found on academia.edu here.

Academic Articles and Book Chapters

“Pragmatist Challenges,” in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Human Rights, Jesse Tomalty and Kerri Woods, eds. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, forthcoming).

“The Injustice of Gentrification,” Political Theory, Volume 51, Number 6 (2023), 925-954.

‘”A Band Aid on a Bullet Wound”: Cosmopolitan Desire in a Pluriversal World,’ in Human Rights at the Intersections: Transformation through Local, Global, and Cosmopolitan Challenges, edited by A.T. Chase et al (2023), 9-18. 

‘Taking responsibility in an unjust world,’ Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 16, Issue 1 (2020), 106-118.

“Performative Rights and Situationist Ethics,” Contemporary Pragmatism, Volume 16, Number 2-3 (2019), 242-267.

“Developing a Situationist Global Justice Theory: from an architectonic to a consummatory approach,” Global Society, Volume 33, Number 1 (2019), 100-120.

“The Political Movement for a Human Right to the City,” in Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Birgit Schippers ed. (London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018).

“Democratic Moral Agency: altering unjust conditions in practices of responsibility,” in Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility, Tobias Debiel et al., eds. (London: Routledge, 2017), 21-35.

“Claiming a Human Right to Housing: Eviction Defence, Home (Re)Occupation and Community Resistance,” Third World Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 6 (2015), 1092-1102.

“Moral Practices: Assigning Responsibility in the International Criminal Court,” Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 76, Issue 3 & 4 (2013), 101-124.

“Towards a Politics for Human Rights: Ambiguous Humanity and Democratising Rights,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Volume 39, Issue 9 (2013), 935-961.

“Rereading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Plurality and Contestation, not Consensus,” Journal of Human Rights, Volume 12, Issue 2 (2013), 217-241.

“Reconstructing Responsibility and Moral Agency in World Politics,” International Theory, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2012), 233-268.

“Human Rights Contested,” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Volume 6, Issue 2 (2012), 233-246.

“Philosophers, Activists, and Radicals: a story of human rights and other scandals” (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia), Human Rights Review, Volume 12, Issue 2 (2011), 191-220.

“Egypt and the Failure of Realism,” Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, Issue 4 (2011), 127- 137.

“Interrogating Democracy in World Politics” (with Meera Sabaratnam and Laust Schouenborg) in Interrogating Democracy in World Politics, Joseph Hoover, Meera Sabaratnam and Laust Schouenborg eds. (Routledge, 2011).

Reviews and Blog Posts

“Reconstructing Rorty? Between Irony and Seriousness,” Theoria, Issue 162, Volume 67, Number 1 (2020), 89-93.

“Review: The human rights state: Justice within and beyond sovereign nations,” Contemporary Political Theory, Volume17, Issue 2 (2018), 90-93.

“Is there a human right to the city? Rethinking the politics of rights,” OUPblog, 9 June 2016.

“Housing is a mental health issue: Root Shock and the London housing crisis,” Focus E15, 18 May 2016.

“Myths of Invention,” The Disorder of Things, 7 December 2015.

“Ethical Encounters – The Special Ambiguity of Humanity,” The Disorder of Things, 18 April 2015.

“What We Did At ISA 2015: Tripping Over The Color Line,” The Disorder of Things, 9 March 2015.

“Whistleblowers, Wikileaks and how politics corrupts the law,” City Perspectives, 24 June 2013. (Extended version available here)

“What We Talked About At ISA 2013: The Practice Turn and Global Ethics,” The Disorder of Things, 18 April 2013.

“American Vignettes (II): The Spirit’s Agenda,” The Disorder of Things, 18 March 2013.

“American Vignettes (I): Totalitarian Undercurrents,” The Disorder of Things, 9 January 2013.

“Something in the Way of Things,”The Disorder of Things, 7 December 2012.

“What We Talked About at ISA 2012: A Human Right to Housing,” The Disorder of Things, 20 June 2012.

“Kony 2012 and the International Criminal Court,” Comments and Opinion, LSE Website, 16 March 2012. (Extended version available here)

“We are Illafifth Dynamite!” The Disorder of Things, 20 January 2012.

“Human Rights as Crisis Morality – A Reply to Anthony Langlois,” The Disorder of Things, 29 August 2011.

“What We (Should Have) Talked About at ISA 2011: The Politics of Humanity and The Ambiguous History of Human Rights,” The Disorder of Things, 21 April 2011. (Parts 2 & 3 can be found here and here)

“Freeing the Pluralist Imagination, or, on the Wisdom of Escaping Weber’s ‘Iron Cage‘,” The Disorder of Things, 24 January 2011.

“Review of Richard W. Miller, Globalizing Justice,” International Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 6 (2010), 1413-1415.

“Review of Avishai Margalit, On compromise and rotten compromise,” International Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 5 (2010), 1209-1210.

“Review of Toni Erskine, Embedded Cosmopolitanism,” Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3 (2010), 839-842.