Dr Christian Schemmel
Visiting Fellow
Research Topic
Justice, Liberalism, and Non-domination
Project Outline
Non-domination has recently been proposed not only as a distinct concept of freedom, and as a guiding value for conceptions of democracy, but also as a basis for distinctively republican conceptions of social justice, which are said to represent promising alternatives to liberal egalitarian conceptions. The project examines the supposed advantages of republican conceptions, and explores whether, and if so, how, concern for non-domination can be incorporated into a liberal egalitarian framework for thinking about social justice.
Scholarly Profile
Christian Schemmel is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), Department of Politics, University of Manchester. Before joining MANCEPT, he was a Research Fellow at Justitia Amplificata. Christian is also a founding member, and currently President, of The Global Justice Network (link to: http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/), and a founding editor of Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric (link to: http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/journal).
Main Areas of Research
theories of justice and equality, global justice and its connection to social justice, self-respect in philosophical and empirical research, and the relationship between theories of justice and different models of welfare state.
Selected Publications
- "Luck Egalitarianism as Democratic Reciprocity?", Journal of Philosophy, 109 (2012), 433-338.
- "Distributive and Relational Equality", Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 11 (2012), 123-148.
- "Why Relational Egalitarians Should Care About Distributions", Social Theory and Practice, 37 (2011), 365-390.