Dr Andrew Phemister FRHistS

Research Overview

Agrarian politics and political thought, particularly with regard to late-nineteenth and early twentieth century liberalism.

Transnationalism and the labour movement, and Irish inflections of radical and socialist politics in the United States and Britain.

Boycotting and popular protest, especially how conceptions of non-violent political activism have existed in productive tension with normative liberal freedoms.

Methodological connections between social history and intellectual history, including contributing to the development of the social history of ideas.

Materialism, the politics of the body, and conceptions of individual and social ‘rights’, in particular agrarian epistemologies and how these pertain to ecological and environmental assumptions and structures in political thought.

The cultural and social impacts of trees and woodlands, in particular their role in radical and socialist politics.