Duncan Ivison

self at liberty

indigenous rights

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rights book cover
I teach in the Department of Philosophy at the University of  Sydney I have also taught in the the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto; the Department of Politics at the University of York (UK) and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. I did my BA at McGill University in Montreal, where I grew up,  and my MSc and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

In 2007 I was appointed Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, one of 4 Schools in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney. 'SOPHI' is made up of the Departments of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Gender and Cultural Studies, History, and Philosophy.

A new 4 year ARC project on 'The uneasy alliance between democracy and justice' gets underway in 2008. [For a recent attempt at suggesting social justice is due for a comeback in mainstream political discourse, which first appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald see: http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=5&newsstoryid=2460]

I have been  Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, and Visiting Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs, at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2002-3), as well as  Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU (1997).

I work in three main areas: political theory, the history of political thought and ethics. I've published four books: The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government (Cornell UP, 1997); Postcolonial Liberalism (Cambridge UP, 2002), which was awarded the 2004 CB Macpherson Prize by the CPSA for best book in political theory in 2002 and 2003; Rights (Acumen and McGill Queens Press, 2008);  and with Paul Patton and Will Sanders, edited Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge UP, 2000; reprinted 2002). 

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