Noel Parker

Noel Parker

Associate Professor emeritus

  • 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).
  • 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. 
    • 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

Teaching

  • Basic undergraduate course on political theory and the history of political ideas
  • MA-level teaching on: Terrorism, Empires, Identity v. otherness, Space and territory, America and Europe, Ideology, Religion and politics
  • Ph.D. supervision on: international society, political identities

Fields of interest

Borders, Empire, Enlightenment, European identity, Identity, Imperialism, Margins, Regionalization, Revolution, Spatiality, Territory, Terrorism, World History

Primary fields of research

  • The spatial, geopolitical and identity construction socio-political orders, notably:
  1. their borders, boundaries and margins;
  2. empires, with regard to their role as non-state political entities that extend to create order beyond their own boundaries. 
  • Longer-standing interests have been
  1. the meaning and historical evolution of practices of contention such as revolution and terrorism; 
  2. the validity and force of survivals from Enlightenment thought.

Selected publications

  1. Published

    Empire as a Geopolitical Figure

    Parker, Noel, 2010, In: Geopolitics. 15, 1-2, p. 109 - 132

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Empire and International Order

    Parker, Noel (ed.), Apr 2013, Aldershot: Ashgate. 168 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologypeer-review

  3. Published

    Picking and Choosing the ‘Sovereign’Border: A Theory of Changing State Bordering Practices

    Parker, Noel & Adler-Nissen, Rebecca, 2012, In: Geopolitics. 17, 4, p. 773-796 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    The Geopolitics of Europe´s Identity: Centers, Boundaries and Margins

    Parker, Noel (ed.), 2008, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 252 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookpeer-review

Selected activities

  1. The Space of Cities

    Parker, Noel (Lecturer)

    29 Oct 2015

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesLecture and oral contribution

  2. Empires Past, Present and Future I & II: European and American Reflections’, and ’…prognoses’.

    Parker, Noel (Organizer)

    1 Jun 2009 → …

    Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

  3. Beyond the border: Drawing new lines around political order.

    Parker, Noel (Organizer)

    1 Jun 2009 → …

    Activity: Participating in an event - typesOrganisation of and participation in conference

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