Mark Wenman

Biography

Mark Wenman joined POLSIS in January 2016. His previous post was at the University of Nottingham, where he taught political theory for over ten years, and where he was also Warden of Derby, Lincoln, and Sherwood Halls. Mark was educated at Christ’s Hospital, the University of Westminster, Birkbeck Colleague, and he completed his PhD in the Ideology and Discourse Analysis programme at the University of Essex in 2005. During this period, he had the good fortune to have been taught by a number of leading political theorists, including John Keane, Paul Hirst, Ernesto Laclau, Aletta Norval and David Howarth. Mark's area of expertise is contemporary political theory, and at Nottingham he was a founding member, and later Director, of CONCEPT. Mark's monograph - entitled Agonistic Democracy: constituent power in the era of globalisation - was published with Cambridge in 2013. He is currently a lead Editor of Political Studies and Editor in Chief of Political Studies Review.

Research Interest

Continental philosophy; contemporary political theory; the philosophy of the social sciences; the history of political thought. Specifically – twentieth and twenty first century theories of democracy; theories of political pluralism; post-structuralism; agonistic democracy; the work of Hannah Arendt; critical cosmopolitanism.