Tambakaki, Dr Paulina
Postal: Centre for the Study
of Democracy
University of
Westminster
32-38 Wells
Street
London, W1T
3UW.
E-mail: tambakp@westminster.ac.uk
Dr Paulina Tambakaki is a Research Fellow in Political Theory. She received her PhD on contemporary debates about human rights and democratic citizenship from the Centre of the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, in 2005. Dr Tambakaki has previously taught at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and at London Metropolitan University.
Her research interests include citizenship, human rights, agonistic and deliberative theories of politics, multiculturalism, politics and the media, cosmopolitanism, discourse theory and Lacanian approaches to politics.
Publications
Books
2009. Human Rights, Or Citizenship. London: Taylor and Francis.
Journal Articles
2009. From Citizenship to Human Rights: The Stakes for Democracy. Citizenship Studies 13(1).
2009. Cosmopolitanism or Agonism: Alternative Visions of World Order. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 12(3).
2009. ‘When Does Politics Happen?’ Parallax 52.
2008. Toward a Cosmopolitan Legal Order? International Studies Review 10, pp.103-105.
2006. Global Community, Global Citizenship. Culture Machine, Feb.
Reviews
2008. Review of the Lacanian Left by Stavrakakis, Y. Political Studies Review 6(3).
2007. Review of Hatred of Democracy by Ranciere, J. Political Studies Review 5(3).
2004. Review Essay of ‘The Democratic Paradox’, Science and Society Autumn-Winter. Athens, Greece. pp.251-253.
Book Chapters
2003. The Impact of Communicative Abundance on Democracy. In R. Panagiotopoulou (ed.). The Digital Challenge: Media and Democracy. Athens, Greece: Dardanos.
FURTHER PUBLICATIONS 2009/2010
Rethinking Citizenship in Agonistic Terms
Can We Learn Something about Human Rights from Foucault?
Reconsidering Habermas’s Co-originality Thesis.
Law Over Politics?
Recent Seminar and Conference Presentations
2009. What Does Disagreement Do For Politics, PSA Conference, University of Manchester.
2008. Constructing Civic Solidarity. Manchester Workshops in Political Theory.
2008. Law, Politics and Human Rights: About Global Constitutionalism. St Andrews University
2007. Law Over Politics. Workshop on Agonism, Exeter University.
2007. Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion. ASLP Conference, Keele University
2006. The Limits of Humanism. ACLA Conference, Princeton University
2005. The Politics of Human Rights. Graduate Conference, University of Essex
2002. Commentary on “The Politics of Passion”. CSD, University of Westminster.
2001. The Impact of Communicative Abundance on Democracy. University of Athens, Greece.
Teaching & Affiliations
Teaching
Human Sciences: Perspectives and Methods
Professional Affiliations:
Association for Legal and Social Philosophy
