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Peri Roberts

Dr Peri Roberts

(he/him)

Reader in Politics

School of Law and Politics

Email
RobertsPM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 76541
Campuses
Law Building, Room 2.40, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

My interests are predominantly in normative political theory and in global justice. I have focused on liberal justification and my Political Constructivism defends an account of the objectivity of certain basic liberal commitments by developing a distinctive account of political constructivism in response to Rawls and O’Neill. I have also published on the liberal responses to pluralism and multiculturalism, global distributive justice, and on liberal just war. I have a particular interest in the work of John Rawls.

In 2012 I held a SOCUM fellowship at Mainz University’s Research Centre of Social and Cultural Studies (Mainz) working on Nussbaum and multiculturalism.

I am available to supervise postgraduate or undergraduate dissertations and theses in contemporary political theory generally and in liberal theories of justice, distributive justice, human rights and global justice in particular. I may also supervise more broadly in aspects of the history of political thought and normative IR theory.

Publication

2024

2019

2018

2016

  • Roberts, P. and Sutch, P. 2016. The global commons and international distributive justice. In: Boisen, C. and Murray, M. C. eds. Distributive Justice Debates In Political and Social Thoughts: Perspectives on Finding a Fair Share. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 230-250.

2013

2012

2011

  • Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. 2011. Evil in contemporary political theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Roberts, P. 2011. Constructivism and evil. In: Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. M. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. Evil in Contemporary Political Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 42-61.
  • Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. and Sutch, P. D. E. 2011. Introduction. In: Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. M. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. Evil in Contemporary Political Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-9.

2007

2006

2004

2003

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  • Roberts, P. 2024. Global distributive justice. In: Williams, H. et al. eds. Palgrave Handbook of Internal Political Theory., Vol. 2. International Political Theory Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 153-172., (10.1007/978-3-031-52243-7_8)
  • Roberts, P. and Sutch, P. 2016. The global commons and international distributive justice. In: Boisen, C. and Murray, M. C. eds. Distributive Justice Debates In Political and Social Thoughts: Perspectives on Finding a Fair Share. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought New York and Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 230-250.
  • Roberts, P. 2011. Constructivism and evil. In: Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. M. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. Evil in Contemporary Political Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 42-61.
  • Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. and Sutch, P. D. E. 2011. Introduction. In: Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. M. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. Evil in Contemporary Political Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-9.
  • Roberts, P. 2006. Why thin universalism needs conceptions of society and person. In: Haddock, B. A., Roberts, P. M. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity. Routledge Innovations in Political Theory Vol. 20. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 111-127.
  • Roberts, P. 2003. Identity, reflection and justification. In: Haddock, B. A. and Sutch, P. D. E. eds. Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights. London: Routledge, pp. 142-157.

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Research

See my publications for recent research projects.

Recent research projects include:

  • International distributive justice
  • Global commons and justice
  • John Rawls and liberal political theory

Teaching

My research interests are reflected in the undergraduate and postgraduate modules in which I am involved.

Undergraduate modules:

  • Introduction to Political Thought
  • Justice & Politics: Contemporary Political Theory
  • Global Justice

Postgraduate modules:

  • Just War & Humanitarian Intervention
  • Ethics & Public Policy

Biography

I grew up in rural Mid-Wales before gaining an undergraduate degree in Politics, a Masters degree in Political Theory with a dissertation on libertarianism, and a doctorate (University of Wales) on political constructivism in liberal theory, focusing on John Rawls.

Supervisions

I have supervised many successful PhD candidates and would welcome new reserach students in:

  • The ideas of John Rawls (or other contemporary thinkers)
  • Liberal political theory
  • Global justice
  • Distributive justice

Specialisms

  • global justice
  • Political theory and political philosophy
  • Social and political philosophy
  • Social Justice