Benedikt Buechel
- Name
- Benedikt Buechel
- Title
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- Benedikt.Buechel@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Political Theory, The Ethics of Migration, Statelessness, Human Rights, Sovereignty, Territorial Rights, Self-Determination, Liberation Theology, Radical Education, Radical Pedagogy, Black Radical Thought, Feminist Theory
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/benedikt_buechel
Supervisors:
- Dr Kieran Oberman (Politics & IR)
- Dr Elizabeth Cripps (Politics & IR)
Research project:
Most theories of territory are build around a triangular relationship between a land, the state that occupies it, and the people who live from its fruits. However, these theories have two shortcomings: first, they rarely transgress the Western conceptualization of land and land-ownership, and second, they neglect the problem of statelessness. This thesis project will address both shortcomings and develop a theory of territory that takes them as a starting point.
Before starting my PhD at the University of Edinburgh, I took an MA in International Studies at Seoul National University, and a BA in Philosophy and Business Studies at the University of Mannheim. I was an exchange student at the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in 2012. Since 2019, I've been an associate member of the “European Network on Statelessness” and a co-chair of the “Normative Theory of Immigration Working Group” which is an international collective of scholars working at the intersections of migration studies, policy studies, and political theory.
https://benediktbuechel.academia.edu/
https://benediktbuechel.home.blog/
Publications:
‘Beyond the State: The Moral Nexus between Corporations and Refugees’
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (forthcoming)
(2017) A Presumptive Right to Exclude: From Imposed Obligations To A Viable Threshold, Global Politics Review, vol. 3, issue 1.
(2014) Liberal Japan needs to drown out revisionist voices, East Asia Forum, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University