Professor Alasdair Cochrane
Department of Politics and International Relations
Professor of Political Theory
+44 114 222 1650
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Department of Politics and International Relations
Modular Teaching Village
Northumberland Road
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S10 1AJ
- Profile
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Alasdair Cochrane received a First Class BA in Politics from the University of 91Ö±²¥ in 2000. He then went on to complete an MSc in Political Theory, a PGCHE and his PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was then Fellow in Human Rights and then Lecturer in Human Rights at the LSE.
Alasdair rejoined the Department of Politics at the University of 91Ö±²¥ as Lecturer in Political Theory in January 2012.
Alasdair Cochrane’s main research interests include: contemporary political theory, rights theory, human rights, environmental ethics, animal ethics and bioethics.
- Research interests
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- The Ethics of Imprisonment
- Cosmopolitan approaches to animal rights.
- The anthropocentrism of human rights.
- Global Food Justice (PDF:108KB)
Prizes and fellowships
- AHRC / BBC New Generation Thinker 2014
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2014-15 (for work on ‘Beastly Cosmopolitanism’)
- Publications
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Books
- . Oxford University PressOxford.
- Should Animals Have Political Rights?. Polity.
- . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Animal Rights Without Liberation - Applied Ethics and Human Obligations. Columbia University Press.
- . Palgrave MacMillan.
Journal articles
- . Medical Law International.
- . Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 41(4), 1149-1172.
- . Review of International Studies, 46(4), 435-455.
- . Contemporary Political Theory, 19(3), 475-512.
- . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 21(2), 261-277.
- . Criminal Law and Philosophy.
- . Global Policy, 4(4), 369-370.
- Cosmozoopolis: The Case Against Group-Differentiated Animal Rights. Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 1, 127-141.
- Evaluating 'Bioethical Approaches' to Human Rights. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1-14.
- . Bioethics, 24(5), 234-241.
- . Utilitas, 21(4), 424-442.
- . Political Studies, 57(3), 660-679.
- . International Affairs, 85(4), 871-914.
- . Res Publica, 13(3), 293-318.
- . Ethics, Policy & Environment.
- . Journal of Social Philosophy.
- . Journal of Global Ethics, 12(1), 106-121.
- . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Chapters
- , Solidarity with Animals: Promises, Pitfalls, and Potential (pp. 1-16).
- , Solidarity with Animals (pp. 1-16). Oxford University PressOxford
- (pp. 184-186). Oxford University PressOxford
- , Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory (pp. 584-592).
- In Blattner CE, Coulter K & Kymlicka W (Ed.), Animal Labour Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- RIGHTS, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (pp. 480-483).
- ANIMALS, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (pp. 16-21).
- Labour Rights for Animals In Garner R & O'Sullivan S (Ed.), The Political Turn in Animal Ethics Rowman & Littlefield International
- Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? Specifying the Rights of Animals In Visak T & Garner R (Ed.), The Ethics of Killing Animals (pp. 201-214). Oxford University Press, USA
- Born in Chains? The Ethics of Animal Domestication In Gruen L (Ed.), The Ethics of Captivity (pp. 156-173). Oxford University Press, USA
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 136-146). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 1-9). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 93-114). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 115-135). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 10-28). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 72-92). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 29-49). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (pp. 50-71). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Routledge
- . Oxford University PressOxford.
- Research group
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Alasdair Cochrane is currently supervising, and is interested in supervising, PhD projects on a range of issues in contemporary political theory, including: human rights; non-human rights; environmental political theory; and bioethics.
- Teaching activities
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The modules that I teach in the Department explore some extremely contentious political issues: minority rights; abortion; humanitarian intervention; animal rights; euthanasia; and many more besides! The wonderful thing about studying political theory, in my view, is that it provides individuals with the tools to tackle such difficult topics directly and confidently. As such, in my teaching practice, my primary aim is to help students to develop the skills necessary to do that. I thus build classes around helping students to expose and critically reflect on their preconceptions. And my ultimate objective is to enable students to construct clear and robust arguments in relation to some of the most important topics in modern political life.
Professor Alasdair Cochrane discusses how and why we establish human rights, and what implication this has for the rights of animals.
- Professional activities and memberships
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Co-Director of (91Ö±²¥ Animals Studies Research Centre)
Radio broadcasts
- Supervision Expertise
- Animal politics
- Environmental political theory
- Most other areas of political theory