Politics, International Relations & Philosophy

Monica Mookherjee has a B.A. (Hons) in Law from Balliol College, Oxford, and M.A. and D.Phil. degrees in Political Philosophy from York University. After finishing her D.Phil., she worked as an assistant lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge University and then, for two years, as a tutorial fellow in Political Theory at Balliol, with an associated lectureship in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. She then held a lectureship for two years in the Philosophy Department at Stirling University. She joined SPIRE in September 2004.

Dr. Mookherjee's main research interests are in the feminist and multicultural aspects of contemporary political philosophy. She is particularly interested in issues of public deliberation, citizenship and the debate about redistribution and recognition. She is the editor of Identity, Difference and Recognition: Recent Developments in Multicultural Political Theory (special issue of the journal Ethnicities, 2003), and is currently working on a monograph on these themes, entitled Rights, Reasons, Affectivity: Feminism and a Philosophy of 'Hard Cases'. Dr. Mookherjee also maintains an active interest in modern European feminist philosophy, especially de Beauvoir and Irigaray's ethics of sexual difference. In particular, she is concerned about the points at which continental conceptions of agency inform liberal accounts of the person in ethics and political philosophy. She acts regularly as an external referee for the journals Contemporary Political Theory, Political Studies, The Philosophical Quarterly and The European Journal of Women's Studies.

• Justice, Authority and Power (Level 1)
• Freedom and Equality (Level 2)
• Human Rights: Concepts, Norms and Identities (Level 3)
• Feminist Theory (Level 3)
• MA Human Rights, Globalisation and Justice