Manjeet Ramgotra

Department of Politics and International Studies

Senior Teaching Fellow

Name:

Dr Manjeet Ramgotra

Email address:

mr18@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44(0) 20 7898 4573

Address:

SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

461

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 11am - 1pm

Biography

Democratic theory, republicanism, liberalism, multiculturalism, globalization, eighteenth century commerce, empire, hierarchy, the history of political ideas and methodology

PhD Research

My doctoral thesis presents a critical interpretation of republicanism that highlights the hierarchical structure of the public space, its institutions and political participation; these structures are further linked to the republic's ends of expansion and empire. I describe republicanism as conservative and criticize the predominant Cambridge School egalitarian and participatory understanding of republicanism.

Courses Taught

• Independent study project in Politics
• Introduction to Political Theory
• Political theory

Manjeet Ramgora’s research focuses on a critical interpretation of republicanism in the thought of Cicero, Machiavelli and Montesquieu. She presents a conservative reading of republicanism that highlights the hierarchical structure of the public space, its institutions and political participation; these structures are further linked to the republic's ends of expansion and empire. As such, she criticises predominant egalitarian and participatory readings of republicanism. In addition, she is working on a project that examines Nehru's understanding of the republic in his pre-independence thought, writings and speeches and situates the egalitarian and participatory understanding of the republic in twentieth-century post-colonial thought.