Elizabeth Frazer

BA MA DPhil

AFFILIATION

CSSJ

Political Thought Network

Political Theory Network

College

New College

elizabeth.frazer@new.ox.ac.uk

phone

+44 (0)1865 288560 (DPIR); +44 (0)1865 279516 (New College)

Professional Activities

Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought: co-convenor with Gary Browning of the Political Thought conference held annually in Oxford UK;

Academic Advisory Board: Independent Social Research Foundation

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1st class), Oxford l984

D Phil Sociology, Oxford l987

Academic Career

Pembroke College, Oxford: BA Politics Philosophy and Economics, 1981-1984

D Phil (ESRC Studentship) 1984-1987

New College, Oxford: Rank Manning Junior Research Fellow, 1987-1990

Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, 1990-date

University of Oxford: Lecturer in Politics, 1990-date

Administrative Positions

Chairwoman, Oxford University Women’s Studies Committee, 1989-1994; Convenor 1996-2006

Dean, New College, 1990-1994

Chairwoman, Sub-Faculty of Politics 1998-1999

Director of Research Training, Department of Politics, 1999-2003, 2009-10

Chairwoman, Department of Politics, Political Theory Panel 1992-1994, 1995-1997, 2005-2008

Tutor for Undergraduate Admissions, New College, 2009-2012

Head of Department, Department of Politics & International Relations, 2014-2017

Chair: Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought: to 2018

Convenor: Political Studies Association specialist group on Political Thought: c2010 to c2019

Chair of Editorial Board, Oxford Review of Education: to 2021

Research summary

Research interests

Political Theory, Democracy and Democratic Theory, Gender, Political thought and ideologies, Media, public sphere and public life, Norms, legitimacy and justification, Violence, security and conflict, Citizenship, Democratic theory, Democracy and Democratisation, Education, Feminism, Gender, Sovereignty, Violence security and conflict

Media

Citizenship education; public political culture; community and communitarianism.

Favourite Political Thinkers, BBC2 Daily Politics.

Teaching

Supervisees

DPhils supervised to completion

Leandra Bias, 2021, Debunking Western Knowledge-Transfer in Russia and Serbia - Silence as anti-Authoritarian Subversion in Feminism

Rutger Kaput, 2020, State of Play: play and game in C20 political thought

Udit Bhatia, 2019, Epistocracy and Constitutions

Orlando Lazar-Gillard, 2018, Work Domination and Contemporary Republicanism

Katharine Millar, 2016, Support is the new service: gendered political obligation, the military, and collective subject formation in International Relations

Tahrat Shahid, 2016, Imaginary lines? : 'Islam', 'secularism', and the politics of family laws in Bangladesh

David Hall, 2015, Facets of Judgement: towards a reflexive political psychology

Jonathan Leader-Maynard, 2014 Ideologies and Mass Violence: the justification mechanics of deadly atrocities

Kei Hiruta, 2013, Making Sense of Pluralism

James Panton, 2011, Politics, subjectivity and the public/private distinction: the problematisation of the public/private relationship in political thought after World War II.

Cissie Fu, 2009, A theory of coalition politics: cross-difference dialogue and collective agency amid new struggles

Giles Moss, 2008, Problems and controversies of democracy in the making of local e-participation

Tim Markham, 2008, Bourdieusian political theory and social science: the field of war correspondence 1990-2003

Helen Hardman, 2007, The communist party national conferences in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Yugoslavia 1998: institutional choice and Communist Party power

John Dyck, 2006, The language of community: an analysis of the concept and practice of Wehrlosigkeit among Russian-Canadian Mennonites 1870-1930

Emma-Jane Watchorn, 2005, Citizenship in school

Ben O'Loughlin, 2005, The diffusion of ideas: ideas of 'the market' in public policy US and UK 1968-92

Annie Chan, 1998, Middle class formation in Hong Kong: the role of boundary work

Nina Wakeford, 1998, A degree of risk: a study of mature students

Laurie Bernotsky, 1997, A step into politics: Concerned Women for America and the political mobilisation of traditional women

Myra Hird, 1996, Adolescent dating violence and the negotiation of gender

Kristina Downing-Orr, 1994, Alienation during childhood and the process of becoming homeless: a social-psychological study of young people in London and Sydney

Publications

Journal Articles

2022

Frazer, E. (2022) “Review: Quassim Cassam, Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis”, Society, 59, pp. 441–443.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00740-w

Frazer, E. (2022) “Review of: ‘Marc Stears, Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again’”, Society, 59, pp. 220–223.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00694-z

2020

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2020) “The politics-violence frontier”, Journal of Political Ideologies, 25(3), pp. 229–247.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1773062

2019

Frazer, E. (2019) “Mary Wollstonecraft’s political political theory”, Review of Politics, 82(1), pp. 25–48.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670519000767

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2019) “The feminist politics of naming violence”, Feminist Theory [Preprint].

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700119859759

Frazer, E. (2019) “Review: Machiavelli and the orders of violence”, Contemporary Political Theory, 19(S3), pp. 176–178.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00311-5

2018

Frazer, E. (2018) “Political power and magic”, Journal of Political Power, 11(3), pp. 359–377.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2018.1523315

2016

Frazer, E. (2016) “Shakespeare’s politics”, Review of Politics [Preprint].

Frazer, E. (2016) “Violence and Civility: review of Etienne Balibar Violence and Civility: on the limits of political philosophy, trans G.M.Goshgarian, New York: Columbia University Press 2015; and Violence et civilite: Wellek Library Lectures et autres essais de philosophie politique, Paris: Editions Galilee, 2010”., Review of Politics, 78(1), pp. 141–145.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1017/S003467051500090X

2015

Frazer, E. (2015) “The diversity of tactics: anarchism and political power”, European Journal of Political theory [Preprint].

2014

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2014) “Feminism and the critique of violence: negotiating feminist political agency”, Journal of Political Ideologies, 19(2), pp. 143–163.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2014.909263

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2014) “Revisiting Ruddick: feminism pacifism and nonviolence”, Journal of International Political Theory [Preprint].

2011

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2011) “Remnants and Revenants: Politics and Violence in the Work of Agamben and Derrida”, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 13(2), pp. 127–144.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856x.2010.00428.x

Finlayson, A. and Frazer, E. (2011) “Fictions of Sovereignty: Shakespeare, Theatre and the Representation of Rule”, Parliamentary Affairs, 64(2), pp. 233–247.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsq035

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2011) “Virtuous Violence and the Politics of Statecraft in Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Weber”, Political Studies, 59(1), pp. 56–73.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00841.x

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2011) “Avowing violence: Foucault and Derrida on politics, discourse and meaning”, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 37(1), pp. 3–23.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453710384359

Frazer, E. (2011) “Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on education”, OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, 37(5), pp. 603–617.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2011.625165

Frazer, E. (2011) “Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought”, POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, 9(2), pp. 221–221.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1478-9302.2011.00234.x

Brooke, C. and Frazer, E. (2011) “Introduction: Political and philosophical perspectives on education. Part 2”, OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, 37(5), pp. 571–571.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2011.627162

2010

Frazer, E. (2010) “What’s real in political philosophy?”, Contemporary Political Theory, 9(4), pp. 490–507.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/cpt.2010.2

Brooke, C. and Frazer, E. (2010) “Introduction: Political and philosophical perspectives on education. Part 1”, OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, 36(5), pp. 521–525.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2010.514431

Frazer, E. (2010) “Conflict Citizenship and Civil Society”, BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 58(3), pp. 356–358.

2009

Russell, M. et al. (2009) “Tony Wright on doing politics differently: The commentators”, Political Quarterly, 80(4), pp. 575–588.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2009.02058.x

Frazer, E. (2009) “Hannah Arendt: The risks of the public realm”, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 12(2), pp. 203–223.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230902892093

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2009) “Politics, Violence and Revolutionary Virtue: Reflections on Locke and Sorel”, Thesis Eleven: critical theory and historical sociology [Preprint].

Frazer, E. (2009) “Citizenship education”, OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, 35(6), pp. 775–785.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980903416610

2008

Frazer, E. (2008) “Mary Wollstonecraft on Politics and Friendship”, Political Studies, 56(1), pp. 237–256.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2007.00670.x

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2008) “On Politics and Violence: Arendt Contra Fanon”, Contemporary Political Theory, 7(1), pp. 90–108.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300328

2007

Frazer, E. (2007) “Depoliticising Citizenship”, British Journal of Educational Studies [Preprint].

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2007) “Argument and rhetoric in the justification of political violence”, European Journal of Political Theory, 6(2), pp. 180–199.

Frazer, E. (2007) “Liberalism, communitarianism and education: Reclaiming liberal education”, BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, 55(4), pp. 464–466.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8527.2007.00388_1.x

2006

Frazer, E. (2006) “Iris Marion Young and Political Education”, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 38(1), pp. 39–55.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2006.00173.x

Frazer, E. (2006) “Max Weber on Ethics and Politics”, Politics and Ethics Review, 2(1), pp. 19–37.

2003

Frazer, E. and Macdonald, K. (2003) “Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain”, Political Studies, 51(1), pp. 67–83.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00413

2001

Frazer, E. (2001) “Civil society, democracy, and civil renewal”, POLITICAL STUDIES, 49(1), pp. 123–124.

2000

Frazer, E. (2000) “Citizenship Education: Anti‐political Culture and Political Education in Britain”, Political Studies, 48(1), pp. 88–103.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.00252

Frazer, E. (2000) “Politics and feminism”, POLITICAL STUDIES, 48(3), pp. 590–591.

1999

Frazer, E. (1999) “Introduction: The idea of political education”, Oxford Review of Education, 25(1-2), pp. 5–22.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/030549899104099

Emler, N. and Frazer, E. (1999) “Politics: The education effect”, Oxford Review of Education, 25(1-2), pp. 251–273.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/030549899104242

Frazer, E. (1999) “Community Activism and Feminist Politics: organizing across race, class, and gender”, JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES, 8(1), pp. 110–111.

1995

Frazer, E. and Lacey, N. (1995) “Politics and the Public in Rawls’ Political Liberalism”, Political Studies, 43(2), pp. 233–247.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1995.tb01709.x

FRAZER, E. (1995) “WHATS NEW IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL-SCIENCE”, OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, 21(3), pp. 267–281.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/0305498950210302

1993

FRAZER, E. (1993) “MARX, ENGELS AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY - LEVIN,M”, HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT, 14(2), pp. 321–324.

1992

FRAZER, E. (1992) “YOUNG PEOPLES UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIETY - FURNHAM,A, STACEY,B”, SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 40(2), pp. 414–416.

1989

FRAZER, E. (1989) “THE AGE OF SEX CRIME - CAPUTI,J”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW, 17(2), pp. 231–232.

FRAZER, E. (1989) “FEMINIST TALK AND TALKING ABOUT FEMINISM - TEENAGE GIRLS DISCOURSES OF GENDER”, OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, 15(3), pp. 281–290.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/0305498890150308

1988

FRAZER, E. (1988) “TEENAGE GIRLS TALKING ABOUT CLASS”, SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 22(3), pp. 343–358.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038588022003002

FRAZER, E. (1988) “THE SELF IMAGINED - PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCIAL CHARACTER OF PSYCHE - HANSON,K”, MIND, 97(385), pp. 134–135.

1987

Frazer, E. (1987) “Teenage girls reading Jackie”, Media Culture & Society, 9(4), pp. 407–425.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/016344387009004003

FRAZER, E. (1987) “METAPHOR, VOL 5 - COOPER,D”, MIND, 96(382), pp. 283–285.

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (no date) “Anarchist Ambivalence: politics and violence in the thought of Bakunin, Tolstoy and Kropotkin”, European Journal of Political Theory [Preprint].

Books

2020

FRAZER, E. (2020) Shakespeare and the Political Way. Oxford University Press.

FRAZER, E. and Hutchings, K. (2020) Violence and Political Theory. Polity Press.

2019

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2019) Can Political Violence Ever Be Justified?. Polity.

2013

Frazer, E. et al. (2013) Citizens Reactions to European Integration Compared: Overlooking Europe. Palgrave.

Chapters

2016

Frazer, E. (2016) “Feminism and realism”, in M. Sleat (ed.) Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice. Columbia University Press, pp. 320–343.

2015

Frazer, E. and Hutchings, K. (2015) “Drawing the Line between Violence and non-violence in Gandhi and Fanon: Deceits and conceits”, in C. Sylvester (ed.) Masquerades of War. Routledge.

2014

Frazer, E. (2014) “Power and Violence”, in Hannah Arendt: key concepts. Routledge.

2008

Frazer, E. (2008) “Overview: Key Perspectives, Traditions and Disciplines”, in J. Arthur, I. Davies, and C. Hahn (eds.) The SAGE handbook of education for citizenship and democracy, pp. 281–291.

2004

Coleman, S., Frazer, E. and Hardman, H. (2004) “Democratic Culture and the Internet: Constructing an agenda for critical research”, in K. Piech and U. Studies (eds.) The knowledge-based economy in transition countries, pp. 141–174.

Frazer, E. (no date) “Political Theory and the Boundaries of Politics”, in D. Leopold and M. Stears (eds.) Political Theory: Methods and Approaches, pp. 171–195.