Noel Parker

Kort præsentation

• Since retirement, he has focussed on writing shorter pieces concerned with boundaries/margins/mobility and on empire and its aftereffects.    He is also preparing a memoir currently entitled 'Living with British Post-Imperialism: a Memoir'
• From 2003 to 2016, Associate Professor in Political Theory and the History of Ideas at the University of Copenhagen.  Previously (1993-2002) Lecturer/Reader in European Politics at the University of Surrey (UK). From 1977 to 1993, he was a member of the academic staff at the British Open University.  He holds a B.A. in Philosophy, an M.A. in the History of Ideas, a Maîtrise de Philosophie, and Ph.D. in Government (from the London School of Economics).
  • Spring 2014: Honorary Research Fellow at University or Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory
  • Spring 2010: Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK
• Current research interests centre on the spatial, geopolitical and identity construction of socio-political orders: their borders, boundaries and margins; and empires as non-sovereign-state forms extending over space.  Longer-standing interests have been the meaning and historical evolution of practices of contention such as revolution and terrorism; and the validity and force of survivals from Enlightenment thought.

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

• Grunduddannelse forløb om Politiskteori og idéhistorie
• MA-niveau udbud om: Terrorismen, Imperier, Identitet vs. det andet, Rum og territorium, Amerika and Europa, Ideologi, Religion og politik
• Ph.D. vejledning om: det internationale samfund, politiske identiteter

Interesseområder

Empire, Europæiske identitet, Fremskridt, Grænser, Identitet, Imperialisme, Oplysningstid, Regionalisering, Revolution, Rummelighed, Det Sekulære, Terrorisme, Verdens Historie

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Universitetsgrader:

• BA philosophy & MA History of Ideas, University of Surrey (UK) (1967)
• MA History of Ideas, University of Surrey (UK) (1969)
• Maîtrise de Philosophie, University of Nice (France) (1976)
• Ph.D. government, London School of Economics (1976)
• Certificate in Counselling, University of Manchester (1990)  

Universitetsstillinger:

• Current: Associate Professor in Political Theory and the History of Ideas
• Previous: 1993-2003 University of Surrey (UK): final position Reader in European Politics; 1977-1993 UK Open University: final position Lecturer in Arts

Primære forskningsområder

• Rum, geopolitik og identitet i de sociale/politiske enheders formering, især deres grænser, rande og marginer;
• Kejserdømme og lignende 'empires', set som udvidende ikke-statslige enheder som skabe orden udenfor deres egne grænser.
• Længere tilbage, mine interesser havde hørt til:

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   1. betydning og historiske udvikling af modstands fremgangsmode, fx: revolution, terrorisme;
   2. Oplysningstids eftersporer of betydning