AV俱乐部

 
 

Department of Political Science

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Margaret Denike

Associate Professor - on sabbatical

Margaret
Department of Political Science , Law, Justice and Society , Gender and Women's Studies

Email: M.Denike@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-6298
Mailing Address: 
Department of Political Science Rm 364, 3rd Floor, Henry Hicks Bldg AV俱乐部, 6283 Alumni Crescent, PO Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Biopolitics and genealogical inquiry
  • Feminist and queer philosophies
  • Human rights (theory, institutions, politics)
  • Political activism of sexual and racial minorities
  • Politics of terror
  • State-sanctioned discrimination

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Education:

  • Simon Fraser University (Honours B.A. English Literature and Humanities)
  • University of British Columbia (M.A. English Literature)
  • Queen's University (LL.M. International Human Rights Law)
  • York University (Ph.D. Social and Political Thought)

Currently the coordinator of the Law, Justice and Society Program, Dr. Denike is formerly a professor and Program Co-ordinator in International Human Rights at Carleton University. Her teaching, research and writing cover topics such as theories of human rights; feminist and queer philosophies; the political activism of sexual and racial minorities; constitutional equality jurisprudence; state-sanctioned discrimination and persecution; biopolitics and genealogical inquiry; and the politics of terror and security

Selected Publications:

  • Denike, M. 鈥溾�欌赌� International Journal of Political Theory 11 (February 2015), pp. 111-127.
  • Denike, M. 鈥溾�� in Gillian Calder and Lori Beaman, eds. Polygamy鈥檚 Rights and Wrongs. UBC Press, 2014, pp. 142-169.
  • Denike, M.听 鈥�,鈥� in Maria Drakopoulou, Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy. Routledge, 2013, pp.
  • Denike, M. 鈥�,鈥� Hypatia, Vol. 28 no 2 (Spring 2013): 395-399.
  • Denike, M., et al. 鈥淭he Promise of Happiness,鈥� by Sara Ahmed (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010). Canadian Journal of Women and the Law Vol. 24 no 12 (Spring 2012): 240-256.
  • Denike, M. 鈥淗omonormative Collusions and the Subject of Rights: Reading Terrorist Assemblages,鈥� Feminist Legal Studies: Special Issue on Markets and Sexualities 18 (Spring 2010), pp. 85-100.
  • Denike, M. 鈥�,鈥� Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy--25th Anniversary Special Issue. (Summer 2010): 852-874
  • Denike, M. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 Queer about Polygamy?鈥� in Robert Lecky and Kim Brooks, eds. . Routledge 2010, pp. 137-154.
  • Denike, M. 鈥�,鈥� Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Vol. 23, no. 2 (April-June 2008), pp. 95-121.
  • Denike, M. 2008. 鈥淓ngendering [In]Security and Terror: On the Protection racket of Security States,鈥� in Ann Ferguson and Mecke Nagel, eds. . Oxford University Press.
  • Denike, M. 鈥溾�� Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Vol. 22, no. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 71-91.
  • Denike, M. 鈥淚ntroduction: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion鈥� in , ed. Krista Scott-Dixon. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2006, pp. 136-144.
  • Denike, M. "The Devil's Insatiable Sex: Toward a Genealogy of Evil", in Robin May Shott, ed. Indiana University Press, 2006

Service and Activity:

Dr. Denike听has long been active in non-government organizations and services that engage in legal education, social justice advocacy, and law reform initiatives to advance sexual and racial equality.