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  • Job title: Principal Lecturer
  • Dept: Applied Social Sciences
  • Tel: 01227 782388
  • Campus: Canterbury
D Bates

Director of the Politics and International Relations Framework

BA, MA (econ.), Ph.D. (Manchester), PGCLT(HE), HEA Fellow.

Teaching responsibilities:

  • Key Political Thinkers (Year 1)
  • Politics, Power and the State (Year 1)
  • Liberalism and its Discontents (Year 2)
  • Political Research and Practice (Year 2)
  • Ideological Wars (Year 3)
  • Radical Political Thought (Year 3)
  • Individual Studies Convenor (Year 3)

Research interests:

My research interests encompass a number of key areas.

First, I am interested in contemporary radical political thought, particularly post-Marxism and anti-capitalism/anti-globalisation. My recent work has dealt specifically with the work of Antonio Gramsci, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and Michael Hardt and Toni Negri. 

Second, I am concerned with issues of political participation, specifically though not exclusively in liberal democratic societies, and in particular how active political engagement might be encouraged. I am currently involved in a number of research projects which address this issue. 

Third, I am interested in the political role of 'the intellectual' in contemporary societies, both in terms of political philosophy, and the relationship with wider movements of social change.

Recent publications

Journal articles
  • Bates, D. (2010 Forthcoming) ‘Immaterial Labour and the Retreat from Class: Some Reflections on Hardt and Negri’, Studies in Marxism, 12.
  • Bates, D. (2009) ‘Reading Negri’, Critique, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 465- 488.
Books
  • Bates, D. (ed.) (2007) Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics, Palgrave, London. ISBN – 10: 1-4039-4998-0.
Chapters
  • D. Bates (2007) ‘Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics’, in D. Bates (ed) Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics, Palgrave, London, pp. 1-29
  • D. Bates (2007) ‘Intellectual Labour and Social Class’, in D. Bates (ed) Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics, Palgrave, London, pp. 169-185
Selected conference papers
  • Bates, D (September 2010) 'Hardt and Negri: Post-Anarchists or Post Marxists?', Manchester Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Bates, D. (April 2010) 'Hardt and Negri: Anarchists or Marxists?', Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh.
  • Bates, D. (April 2009) ‘Making Politics Mater: Politics Teaching in a Knowledge Transfer Context’. Political Studieas Association Annual Conference, ManchesterUniversity.
  • Bates, D. (September 2008) ‘Gramsci: Marxist or Post-Marxist?’, Manchester Workshops in Political Theory.
  • Bates, D. (April 2008) ‘Once More on Laclau and Mouffe’, Political Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Swansea.
  • Bates, D. (September 2007) ‘Intellectuals and the Retreat From Class’ (September 2007) Manchester Workshops in Political Theory, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Ph.D. supervision

I am an accredited Ph.D supervisor. I am involved in the supervision of theses on a wide range of issues, including 'Meta Narratives and Liberal Universalism', 'The Vacillation of British Politicians towards the European Project', and the 'Internationalism in Education'. I am particularly interested in supervising Ph.D.'s in the area of my research interests.