Research News
Appointments and Awards
On 1st July 2010 Professor Alasdair MacIntyre joined the Faculty as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP).
Three students began their doctoral studies within the Department funded by Vice-Chancellor's Scholarships in 2010. Two of them - Kim Redgrave and Mustafa Ongun - are studying with CASEP.
During 2010/11 a new Professor was appointed in the faculty: Professor Mark Wheeler. A new Reader was also appointed in 2010-11: Lord (Maurice) Glasman.
Research Centres
Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics
The Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) was inaugurated as the Faculty's latest research centre in June 2009.
CASEP's first full conference at London Met was held on Friday 3rd June 2011. Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Politics was the inaugural annual conference of a Contemporary Aristotelian Studies specialist group of the Political Studies Association. Speakers included Professor Alasdair MacIntyre (London Met), whose talk was entitled: ‘Four Political Aristotles’. Additional speakers included: , Dr Kirsten Ainley (LSE) and Dr Keith Breen (Queen's University, Belfast). For the full programme, see the Contemporary Aristotelian Studies website. For further details, contact the conference organizer: Kim Redgrave.
CASEP co-hosted a conference on Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice at the University of Nottingham on 6th-7th May, 2010.
In summer 2010 members of CASEP attended, spoke at and helped organize the fourth annual conference of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry (ISME), on the theme of Virtue and Economic Crises, at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Selected papers from the conference are being edited for publication as a book by CASEP Visiting Research Fellow Andrius Bielskis and CASEP Director Kelvin Knight.
Finally, CASEP members visited the USA in July, 2011, for ISME's fifth annual conference held at Providence Collage, Rhode Island, USA. (ISME's founding conference was at London Met, in 2007.)
Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation (CSRCC)
CSRCC hosted an international conference from 28-30 June 2011, entitled: ‘The Power of Religion: Towards Peace and Moderation or Violence and Extremism?’ The key aim of the conference was to establish how best to encourage inter-religious peace and cooperation. The goal of the conference is to present recommendations to religious entities and governments to derail religious extremism and stimulate peace and cooperation.
The conference brought together scholars, activists, religious thinkers, policy makers and journalists to focus on practical steps to improve inter-religious cooperation and to derail religious extremism and violence. Speakers, included Haleh Afshar, Marc Gopin, Tariq Ramadan and Amin Saikal, focused on how religious leaders, organisations and communities can challenge violent extremist religious ideologies and practically support pro-peace voices and activities.
Recently, especially since September 11, 2001, crucial questions have been posed concerning the ability and commitment of religious leaders and religious communities to help prevent and delegitimise violence and develop cooperation and peace. Religious leaders, organisations and communities should, it is widely agreed, seek to develop improved capability and capacity to build peace and cooperation. How successful are they? Religion - based/linked conflicts appear to be growing. Why? What can religious leaders, organisations and communities do to improve things?
Centre website: /depts/lgir/research-centres/csrcc/
Centre for Family Law and Practice
New research into long-term effects of child abduction
A research project to consider the long-term effects of child abduction is being undertaken at the Centre for Family Law and Practice (CFLP) at London Metropolitan University by Professor Marilyn Freeman, who has conducted extensive research in the area of child abduction over many years. The project will analyse data from research samples of adults and young persons based mainly in the United Kingdom and the United States who were abducted as children.
The CFLP wishes to hear from any adults or young persons who were abducted as children and who may wish to participate in this research.
Professor Freeman is also interested in hearing from those who have represented people involved in child abduction cases which may fall within the remit of our research, and who still have contact with those people.
We fully understand any reservations you may have regarding confidentiality, so we assure you that we do not seek names or contact details of any of the parties involved in any of the cases you have dealt with. We will send you an information pack containing a consent form, a stamped addressed envelope, and a letter providing further information about the research, which you may then pass on to the parties involved.
If you wish to take part in this project, or you are willing to provide any information which may assist with the research, please e-mail Marilyn Freeman (m.freeman@londonmet.ac.uk) or call the Centre for Family Law and Practice on 020 7320 1197.
Centre website: /depts/lgir/research-centres/centre-for-family-law-and-practice/centre-for-family-law-and-practice_home.cfm
Conferences, workshops, seminars, book series and journal editorships
Professor Peter Leyland is series editor of the book series Constitutional Systems of the World. There was a dedicated launch at the last World Congress of Constitutional Law held in Mexico City.
Peter helped organise a workshop at London Metropolitan University in September 2010 dedicated to a publication called Accountability in the Contemporary Constitution. Another Workshop was held in May 2011 to mark the launch of a book involving Peter on Thailand. This attracted judges, ambassadors, journalists and academics with an interest in Thailand and South East Asia.
Professor Jeffrey Haynes is series editor of the ‘Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics’, which has recently published books by leading international scholars, including: Steve Bruce, Peter Beyer and Carsten Anckar (details at http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSRP/).
Jeff is also co-editor of the journal, Democratization, published six times a year. Democratization listed in the prestigious Thomson Reuters ISI Impact Factors (IF). Democratization, enjoying its first listing in the IF released in June 2011, received an IF of 0.917: a strong start! The journal is included in the 'Political Science' category and Democratization is ranked 46/139, which puts Democratization in the top third of journals in that category.
Books Published in 2010/11 by LGIR staff members
Steven Curtis: S. Curtis and A. Blair (eds), The Scholarship of Engagement for Politics: Placement Learning, Citizenship and Employability (Birmingham: C-SAP, 2010).
Professor Jeffrey Haynes:
- Religion and Politics: Critical Concepts (four volumes) (editor), London, Routledge, 2010. ISBNs: Vol. 1: 978-0-415-49305-5 Vol. 2: 978-0-415-49304-8 Vol. 3: 978-0-415-49303-1 Vol. 4:978-0-415-49302-4 (HB]
- Religion and Politics in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (editor), London, Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science, 2010, pp. 250. ISBN 10: 0-415-47713-1 (hbk) ISBN 10:0-203-86948-6 (ebk)
- Special Issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
- (‘Globalization, Religion and Secularization: Different States, Same Trajectories?’, co-edited with Guy ben Porat), 11, 2 (June 2010). Print ISSN 1469-0764 Online ISSN 0404-3717.
- World Politics: International Relations and Globalisation in the 21st Century (co-authored with Peter Hough, Shahin Malik and Lloyd Pettiford), London, Longman, 2011. ISBN 13: 978-1408204924 (pbk)
- Religious Actors in the Public Sphere (co-edited with Anja Hennig), London: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-62035-3
- Religion, Politics and International Relations: Selected Essays, London, Routledge, 2011.ISBN: 978-0-415-61780-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415 61781-9 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-81863-3
Professor Peter Leyland (with A. Harding): The Constitutional System of Thailand: A Contextual Analysis, (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2011), 280pp.
Dr Dermot McCann: The Political Economy of the European Union: An Institutionalist Perspective, Cambridge: Polity, July 2010.
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