Anna Jurkevics is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Yale University. Her research is primarily in the field of political theory, with a focus on democratic theory and history of German political thought. She specialises on the work of Hannah Arendt. Through her research, she contests sovereigntist geopolitical thought by touching on themes such as territory, land, and migration to offer new insights on the possibility of democratic land governance in a globalised world.
Research Interests: Political Theory, Democratic theory, Comparative Politics, Sovereignty and legitimacy, History of German political thought.
| Institution: | University of British Columbia |
| Fields of Expertise: | Democracy and Political Participation Ethics and Political Philosophy Federalism and Territorial Politics Migration |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | anna.jurkevics@ubc.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, German, Latin (reading) |
| Publications: | "Land Grabbing and the Perplexities of Territorial Sovereignty.” Political Theory, 2021. Online at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00905917211008591 “Democracy in contested territory: on the legitimacy of global legal pluralism,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, forthcoming, online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13698230.2019.1644584. "Review of Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration", by Anna Stilz in Political Theory 2020, onlinefirst at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0090591720943507. "Review of Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants", by Ayten Gundogdu in Political Theory 2018 46(2), pp. 303-307. “Critical International Political Theory,” with Seyla Benhabib, Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, eds. Chris Brown and Robyn Eckersley, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 74-86. “Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: a dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins,” European Journal of Political Theory 2017, 16 (13), pp. 345-366. “Seyla Benhabib,” Habermas Lexicon, eds. Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. |
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