Dr Patrick Cockburn

Research Highlights

1. Cockburn, P. & Preminger, J. (2023). Migration and Demos in the Democratic Firm: An Extension of the State-Firm Analogy. Political Theory, 0, 009059172311544

   https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917231154422, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61585

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00905917231154422
2. Cockburn, P. (2021). Varieties of economic dependence. European Journal of Political Theory, 22(2), 195-216.

   https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851211001549, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56717

   https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851211001549
3. Cockburn, P. (2018). The Politics of Dependence - Economic Parasites and Vulnerable Lives (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan.

   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78908-8, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52087

   http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78908-8
4. Cockburn, P. & Thorup, M. (2018). Proprietors and parasites. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 44(2), 179-199.

   https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453717723189, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52091
5. Bruun, M., Cockburn, P., Risager, B., & Thorup, M. (Eds.). (2018). Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells us About Ownership. Routledge.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52089
6. Cockburn, P., Bruun, M., Risager, B., & Thorup, M. (2018). Introduction: Disagreement as a Window onto Property. Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells us About Ownership (pp. 1-20). Routledge

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52090
7. Cockburn, P. (2017). Book Review: Just Property: Vol II: Enlightenment, Revolution and History

   https://doi.org/10.1177/1478929917712912, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52096
8. Cockburn, P. (2016). Claims of Need in Property Law and Politics. Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 63(146), 56-74.

   https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2016.6314604, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52092

   https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/63/146/th6314604.xml
9. Cockburn, P. (2016). A common sense of property?. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 17(1), 78-93.

   https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2015.1005111, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52093
10. Cockburn, P. (2014). Street Papers, Work and Begging: ‘Experimenting’ at the Margins of Economic Legitimacy. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7(2), 145-160.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2013.837630, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52094

All Research

• The dynamics of territorial and national identity in Wales and Cornwall. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Prof Jonathan Bradbury

• Environmental organizations within Türkiye: Understanding the nature of state and civil society relations (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Gideon Calder

  Other supervisor: Dr Caner Sayan

• HUP104 Living Well and Doing Good - An Introduction to Ethics

  This module introduces students to key issues and theories within ethics. It examines some important moral thinkers, including Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill, along with Buddhist and Confucian ethics. It also explores the nature of well-being and what it means to live well. Finally, it considers concepts such as egoism and altruism, emotivism, relativism and objectivism. Underpinning this module is a focus on how we should live our lives and what our relationships with other people should be like.

• HUP105 Critical Reasoning

  This module introduces students to the core elements of critical reasoning: how to identify, construct and analyse arguments; what makes an argument valid and sound; common errors in reasoning; and the basics of propositional logic. In studying these topics, students will cultivate core critical reasoning skills and apply these in analysing real-world textual examples.

• PHQ300 Study Group: PPE (Year 3)

  2 hour weekly Study Group for PPE students (Year 3)

• PO-245 The History of Political Thought

  This module examines the history of political thought in the West, as it has developed through key political thinkers. In so doing, it traces the development of core political concepts and values, such as democracy, freedom and rights. The course thus has two main aims. First, to provide students with an understanding of pivotal political thinkers and their works. Second, to equip students with an appreciation of how the history of political thought has shaped the current political landscape. The module is designed to enrich the topics covered in the first-year module Political Philosophy by placing them within a historical context.

• PO-246 The History of Political Thought (10cr version)

  This module examines the history of political thought in the West, as it has developed through key political thinkers. In so doing, it traces the development of core political concepts and values, such as democracy, freedom and rights. The course thus has two main aims. First, to provide students with an understanding of pivotal political thinkers and their works. Second, to equip students with an appreciation of how the history of political thought has shaped the current political landscape. The module is designed to enrich the topics covered in the first-year module Political Philosophy by placing them within a historical context.

• PO-3325 Capitalism and Justice: inequality, power and prosperity in contemporary economies

  This module unpacks the fundamental political dilemmas that underpin capitalist economies today. These include questions like: should states control the production of money? Do markets deliver social justice? Is the ownership of property a form of power over others? And is economic inequality the inevitable price for prosperity? The module draws on work in political philosophy, economic sociology, and political economy, in order to examine, and debate the political problems at the centre of our economic practices and institutions. While drawing on a range of empirical studies, the focus of the module is on developing the conceptual and theoretical competences needed for informed normative (ethical and political) analysis of contemporary capitalist practices and institutions. The aim is to give students the resources to develop strong arguments for their own political conclusions on these topics.