‌Email: f.schuppert@qub.ac.uk

MPhil (Glasgow), PhD (Queen's)

Before returning to Queen’s (where I did my PhD in Political Theory/Philosophy) I worked three years as a post-doc at the University of Zurich's Centre for Ethics on issues of intergenerational justice in natural resource management. My research explored the challenges intergenerationally sustainable resource management poses for our established understanding of territorial sovereignty, self-determination, and property ownership. Before going to Zurich I worked on republican political theory, with a particular focus on theories of social and global justice. In my doctoral thesis, which I finished in 2010, I presented a republican theory of social justice around the core ideas of recognition and non-domination. I still have a major research interest in republican political theory in general, and social-relational egalitarianism in particular. As part of this research I have a book forthcoming with Springer, as well as an edited collection (together with Carina Fourie and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer) with Oxford University Press.

Research

My primary research interests lie in political and moral philosophy, natural resource governance and applied ethics, with a focus on environmental ethics. My current work can be split into two groups, on the one hand normative work on republicanism, social, global and intergenerational (in)equality and consequentialism, and on the other hand applied normative work on natural resource governance, climate change, and the ethics of risk.

Thus as part of the first cluster of research interests I have worked on social-relational egalitarianism, the effects of social inequality on health, intergenerational (in)justice, republicanism and recognition theory, as well as satisficing consequentialism. Moreover I currently co-edit a book on proposals for an alternative political economy above and beyond property-owning democracy.

As part of the second cluster of research interests I work on biodiversity governance, water security and securitization, land grabbing, energy policy (with a focus on fracking), the normative conceptualization of resource rights, as well as the politics of climate change.

Institute

At the institute I will lead a research project on Governing Natural Resources: Culture, Justice and Sustainability,which focuses on issues in international natural resource governance, the justification and implementation of resource rights and the demands of sustainable resource use in the past, present and future. The project feeds into a growing literature on the challenges of natural resource management, focusing on the difficult balancing of various normative concerns in devising rules and principles for an effective resource governance system.

With regard to the issue of resource governance and resource rights my research draws on both theoretical normative accounts, as well as practical guidelines, agreements and use-patterns. Thus, my research uses both empirical studies regarding the cultural construction of resources and the practice of resource management, as well as normative accounts taken from political theory and philosophy. 

Important sub-themes of my research project focus on three distinct issues with regard to natural resource governance, namely, water security and securitization, sustainable energy policy and the institutional governance of biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

'Discursive Control, Non-Domination and Hegelian Recognition Theory: Marrying Pettit’s Account(s) of Freedom with a Pippinian/Brandomian Reading of Hegelian Agency', forthcoming in Philosophy & Social Criticism.

'Suffering from Social Inequality. Normative Implications of Empirical Findings on the Negative Effects of Social Inequality', forthcoming in Philosophical Topics.

'Non-Domination, Non-Alienation and Freedom: A Republican Conception of Social Equality', forthcoming in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. 

'Distinguishing Basic Needs and Fundamental Interests', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 16 (2013), pp. 24-44.

'Reconsidering Resource Rights: The Case for a Basic Right to the Benefits of Life-Sustaining Ecosystem Services', Journal of Global Ethics 8 (2012), pp. 215-225.

'Climate Change Mitigation and Intergenerational Justice', Environmental Politics 20 (2011), pp. 303-331.

'Andrzej Wajda’s A Generation and Man of Marble from a Political Perspective', Kinema 13 (2006).

Commentaries and Discussion Notes in Peer-Reviewed Journals:

'Risks, Uncertainty and Ecosystem Management', forthcoming in Ethics, Policy & the Environment.

'Property-Owning Democracy and Rawlsian Justice: A Comment on Michael Schefczyk', forthcoming in Analyse und Kritik.

'Coordination, Cooperation and the Origin of Normative Expectations: A Comment on Hans Bernhard Schmid', Analyse und Kritik 33 (2011), pp. 57-64.

Books:

Freedom, Recognition & Non-Domination: A Republican Theory of (Global) Justice. Forthcoming with Springer.


Edited Books:

Carina Fourie, Fabian Schuppert and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (eds.): Social Equality: Essays on What It Means to be Equals. Under contract with Oxford University Press.

Book Chapters:

Fabian Schuppert: 'Collective Agency and Global Non-Domination', Cosmopolitanism vs. Non-Cosmopolitanism, ed. by Gillian Brock, Oxford University Press (forthcoming Summer 2013).

Fabian Schuppert: 'Taloudellista kasvua ja lisää työpaikkoja kestävän kehityksen avulla – pelkkää EU-retoriikkaa vai tie vihreämmille laitumille? (Sustainable Development and Economic Growth: Realistic Utopia or Empty EU Rhetoric?', Euroopasta Ei Mitään Uutta (No News from Europe), ed. by Hanna Kuusela and Otto Bruun, Helsinki University Press (2009), pp. 141-158.

Book Reviews: 

Fabian Schuppert: 'Jürgen Habermas: Time of Transitions', Critical Horizons 9 (2008), pp. 104-107.

Fabian Schuppert: 'The Lyotard Reader and Guide', eSharp (2006).

Other Academic Publications:

Fabian Schuppert: 'Kabwe, Zambia', Green Series Volume 4: Green Cities, ed. by Paul Robbins, Nevin Cohen and J. Geoffrey Golson, SAGE (2010).

Fabian Schuppert: 'Stockholm, Sweden', Green Series Volume 4: Green Cities, ed. by Paul Robbins, Nevin Cohen and J. Geoffrey Golson, SAGE (2010).

Fabian Schuppert: 'Hamburg, Germany', Green Series Volume 4: Green Cities, ed. by Paul Robbins, Nevin Cohen and J. Geoffrey Golson, SAGE (2010).

Fabian Schuppert: 'The Social Forums as the New International? The Politics of the ESF & WSF from a Deconstructive Point of View', Hamburg Review of Social Sciences 1 (2006), pp. 295-311.

Fabian Schuppert: 'Discourse and Power: Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Contemporary Political Discourse', Proceedings of the XII. International Bakhtin Conference. (2006).