Book project

My current book project, based on my PhD dissertation, investigates how early ideas of social democracy in British political thought were constituted by and entangled with imperial power. It examines the writings of so-called new liberals and progressives who, at the turn of the twentieth century, theorised Britain as an imperial democracy. I am particularly interested in how such thinkers imagined the British empire as a racial hierarchy, and in doing so advanced unusual critiques of white racial supremacy. Some related work from this project has been published in Political Theory and the European Journal of Political Theory (see below).

Peer-reviewed articles

‘Hobson on White Parasitism and Its Solutions’, Political Theory, 52/1 (2024), 120–145 – [abstract / full article / PDF ]

‘Dissolving the Colour Line: L. T. Hobhouse on Race and Liberal Empire’, European Journal of Political Theory 23/1 (2024), 85–106 – [abstract / full article / PDF]

• Winner of the EJPT’s best research article of the year, the Carlo Argenton prize, for its ‘meticulous historical research and its success in speaking to wider theoretical debates about race, hierarchy, and liberalism’ (full announcement here)