Elizabeth Frazer, Home Page
Teaching, including lecture notes
updated 17xi09
Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics, New College, Oxford ;
University Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations,
University of Oxford;
Address: New
College, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN, UK,
elizabeth.frazer@new.ox.ac.uk tel: 44
1865 279516
Qualifications
BA (Hons) Philosophy,
Politics and Economics (1st class), Oxford l984
D Phil Sociology, Oxford
l987
Academic Career
Pembroke College, Oxford
BA Politics Philosophy and
Economics, 1981-1984
D Phil (ESRC Studentship)
1984-1987
New College, Oxford
Rank Manning Junior Research
Fellow, 1987-1990
Official Fellow and Tutor in
Politics, 1990-date
University of Oxford
Lecturer in Politics, 1990-date
Administrative Positions
Chairwoman, Oxford
University Women’s Studies Committee, 1989-1994; Convenor 1996-date
Dean, New College, 1990-1994
Chairwoman, Sub-Faculty of
Politics 1998-1999
Director of Research
Training, Department of Politics, 1999-2003
Chairwoman, Department of
Politics, Political Theory Panel 1992-1994, 1995-1997, 2005-date
1. A series of papers on the broad themes of ‘what politics
ought to be’ and ‘political virtue’ by way of critical study of the thought of
figures including Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and also Rousseau
and Wollstonecraft.
2. With Kim Hutchings, LSE, a series of papers on the theme
of political violence and its justification, including critical study of
Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Weber, Schmitt, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Merleau Ponty, Fanon, Sartre,
Derrida, as well as just war theorists and feminist critics of violence.
3. ‘Shakespeare and the Political Way’ - a study of the
theme of political virtue as envisioned in Shakespeare’s dramas.
4. With Sophie Duchesne and Florence Haegel (Cevipof,
Paris) and Jean-Paul Frognier (University of Louvain) a project (called ‘How
Discussion Becomes Political) producing and analysing citizens’ conflictual
political discussion on the subject of european membership. This project is funded by Leverhulme Trust,
the Ministere Delegue a la Recherche, Action Concertee Initiative, France, and
the University of Louvain:
Project Website: http://oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/projects/index.asp.
Conference, Oxford, June 23 2008: European Citizenship
revisited.
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‘Mary Wollstonecraft on Politics and Friendship’ in Political Studies Vol 56 no.1 March 2008
pp.237-256
Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings, ‘On Politics and Violence: Arendt contra Fanon’ Contemporary Political Theory vol 7 no.1
February 2008 pp. 90-108: winner
of the Contemporary Political Theory prize for the
2008 volume
‘Max Weber on Ethics and Politics’ in Politics and
Ethics Review Vol 2 no.1 Spring 2006 pp 19-37
‘Sex Differences in Political
Knowledge in Britain’ with Ken Macdonald in Political
Studies vol 51 no.1 March 2003
' "Probably the most
public occasion the world has ever known": public and private in press
coverage of the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales' in Journal
of Political Ideologies vol 5 pp201-223 2000
'Citizenship
Education: Anti-Political Culture and Political Education in Britain' Political
Studies vol 48 pp88-103 2000.
Abridged version published in Education for Democracy:
Contexts, Curricula, Assessments
Walter C Parker (ed) Greenwich Ct: Information Age Publishing 2002; abridged version published in Andrew Lockyer,
Bermard Crick and John Annette (eds) Education
for Democratic Citizenship: issues of theory of practice Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2003
The Problems of Communitarian Politics: Unity and Conflict: Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 1999 [Preface and Introduction] Available on line
at http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/0198295642/toc.html
Elizabeth
Frazer and Nicola Lacey (1993): The
Politics of Community: a Feminist Critique of the Liberal Communitarian Debate,
Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead
Elizabeth
Frazer, Jennifer Hornsby, Sabina Lovibond, (eds) (1993) Ethics: a Feminist Reader Blackwell,
Oxford
Feminist Talk and Talking about Feminism: teenage girls' discourses of
gender". Oxford
Review of Education vol 15 1989
Cameron,Deborah;
Frazer,Elizabeth (1989): "Knowing
What to Say: the Construction of Gender in Linguistic Practice".
In: Social
Anthropology and the Politics of Language. Sociological Review Monograph 36.
(Ed: Grillo,Ralph) Routledge, London
"Teenage
Girls Talking About Class". Sociology Vol 22
1988
Deborah
Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer, (1987): The
Lust to Kill: a feminist investigation of sexual murder.
Polity Press, Cambridge.
Oxford Review of Education (Taylor and Francis) Electronic copies (includes special issue on Political
Education edited by EJF Vol 25 March 1999)
Journal of Political Ideologies (Taylor and Francis, Oxford )Electronic copies (includes Vol 5 June 2000 which includes
‘Probably the most public occasion.....’)
Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy (Frank Cass,
London) http://www.frankcass.com/jnls
International Journal of Citizenship and
Teacher Education (CitizED, Teacher
Training Agency) http://www.citized.info/ijcte/http://www.citized.info/ijcte/
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