Academics
Moya Lloyd BA, PhD
Professor of Political Theory Email M.S.Lloyd@lboro.ac.uk |
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| Biography
I initially trained as an historian of political thought, at the University of Warwick, where I focused on eighteenth and nineteenth century theories of property. After leaving Warwick, I worked first at the University of Wolverhampton, before leaving to join the Politics Department at Queen’s University, Belfast. I joined the Department of of Politics, History and International Relations in 2005. |
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I am currently working on two projects. The first is a short book, for Acumen Press, exploring how ideas about sex, gender and sexuality shape politics and policy-making. The second is a longer-term project exploring the relation between normativity, power and the ‘human’, concentrating in particular on issues such as heteronormative violence and un/intelligible bodies, grievability and ‘recognition’, whiteness and Aboriginality. It has the working title ‘Who Counts?’ In this work, I draw on the writings of, amongst others, Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault.
I was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2009. I am a former Honorary Secretary of the Political Studies Association of the UK, and in 2009 was academic convenor with my colleague, Ruth Kinna, of its annual conference.
I am International Editor of the journal Redescriptions: Yearbook of Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory.I am also currently a member of the editorial boards of:
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Recent publications
Books - Authored
Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics (Cambridge, Polity, 2007).
Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics (London, Sage, 2005).
With R. Eccleshall et al., Political Ideologies 3rd edition (London, Routledge/Taylor Francis, 2003).
With Fidelma Ashe et al., Contemporary Social and Political Theory: an Introduction (Milton Keynes, The Open University Press, 1998).
Books - Edited
With Adrian Little (eds.) The Politics of Radical Democracy (Edinburgh, EUP, 2009).
With Andrew Thacker (eds) The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997).
Chapters in edited books
‘Power, politics, domination and oppression’ in Georgina Waylen, Karen Celis, Johanna Kantola and Laurel Weldon (eds) Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics (Oxford, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012)
‘Judith Butler’ in George Ritzer and Jeffrey Stepnisky (eds) New Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (Oxford, Blackwell, forthcoming 2011)
‘From Linguistic Performativity to Social Performance: The Development of a Concept’ in Gerard Delanty and Stephen P. Turner (eds) Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory (London and New York, Routledge, forthcoming 2011)
‘Judith Butler’ in Jon Simons (ed.) Agamben to Žižek: Contemporary Critical Theorists (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press).
‘Hate, Loathing and Political Theory: Thinking With and Against William Connolly’ in Alan Finlayson (ed.) Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought of William E. Connolly (London and New York, Routledge, 2009).
With Adrian Little, ‘Introduction’ and ‘Conclusion’ in Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (eds.) The Politics of Radical Democracy (Edinburgh, EUP, 2009).
‘Performing Radical Democracy’ in Adrian Little and Moya Lloyd (eds.) The Politics of Radical Democracy (Edinburgh, EUP, 2009).
'Towards a Cultural Politics of Vulnerability: precarious lives and ungrievable deaths ' in Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers (eds.) Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Encounters (London, Routledge, 2008).
Julia Kristeva’ in Jon Simons (ed.) Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
With Marysia Zalewski ‘Sensational Moralities: Transnational Innocence, Purity and Danger’ in Francois Debrix and Cynthia Weber (eds) Rituals of Mediation: International Politics and Social Meaning (Minneapolis, Minnesota University Press, 2003).
‘Performativity, Parody, Politics’ in Vikki Bell (ed.) Performativity and Belonging (London, Sage, 2000).
‘Sexual Politics, Performativity, Parody: Judith Butler’ in Terrell Carver and Véronique Mottier (eds) Politics of Sexuality: Identity, gender, citizenship (London, Routledge, 1998).
‘Feminism’ in Adam Lent (ed.) New Political Thought: An Introduction (London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1998).
'Foucault's "Care of the Self": Some Implications for Feminist Politics', in Clare O’Farrell (ed.) Foucault: The Legacy (Brisbane, Queensland University of Technology Press, 1997).
With A. Thacker: ‘Strategies of Transgression: An Introduction’ to Lloyd and Thacker (eds) The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997).
‘Foucault’s Ethics and Politics: A Strategy for Feminism?’ in Lloyd and Thacker (eds) The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and the Humanities (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997).
‘A Feminist Mapping of Foucauldian Politics’ in Susan Hekman (ed.) Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault(Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996).
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Journal articles
‘Radical Democratic Activism and the Politics of Resignification’, Constellations: an International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 14, 1 (2007).
‘(Women’s) human rights: paradoxes and possibilities’, Review of International Studies, 33 (1) 2007.
‘Reply to Assiter’, Journal of Gender Studies, 15 (3) (2006).
‘Antigone, Butler and the State’, Contemporary Political Theory vol. 4: 4 (November 2005).
With Andrew Thacker, ‘Still Thinking Differently: Foucault Twenty Years On’, New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics No. 55 (Spring 2005).
‘Mourning as Becoming’, Feminist Theory, 4: 3 (2003).
‘Performativity, Parody and Politics’, Theory, Culture and Society vol. 16: 2 (1999).
‘Politics and Melancholia’, Women’s Philosophy Review No. 20 (Winter 1998-99): 25-43
‘Feminism, Aerobics and the Politics of the Body’, Body and Society vol. 2: 2 (June 1996).
'The (F)utility of the Feminist Turn to Foucault', Economy and Society vol. 22: 4 (November 1993).
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Special issues – editorships
With Marysia Zalewski, special section on ‘Exceeding Sex and Gender’ in Sexualities: A Journal of Culture and Society – special issue: ‘Re-presenting Sexualities in the Media’, 6 (4-5) 2003
With Myrtle Hill, Irish Journal of Feminist Studies - special issue: Families in Ireland, 3: 2 October 1999