About
I have wide ranging interests in social and political philosophy as well as in ethics and aesthetics.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- 1) Post-Kantian social and political philosophy from Nietzsche to Foucault, and the Frankfurt School.
- 2) The Ethics and Politics of Migration
- 3) Democratic Theory and Practice
- 4) Ethics, Morality and Culture.
Current research
1) Nietzsche as a social and political thinker.
2) A political theory of global migration governance.
3) Displacement as a form of life.
Research projects
Active projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
1) History of Political Thought
2) Ethics and Politics of Migration
3) European social and political philosophy
4) Critics of Empire: Radical Thinkers of the Global South
5) Political thinkers of the Black Atlantic
6) Cinema and Political Theory
7) Philosophy of Social Science
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
I was brought up in Africa, the UK, and South East Asia. I undertook both my undergraduate and postgraduates degrees at the University of Durham. I have taught at the University of Southampton since 1995 and also been visiting professor at the JW Goethe University, Frankfurt a/M (2000, 2007, 2010), and at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton (2021-22 & 2024-25). In 2020 I was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and in 2023 a Fellow of the British Academy.
Prizes
- Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (2020)
- Fellowship of the British Academy (2023)