People

Reid Kleinberg

Fixed Term Teacher

Department of Sociology and Criminology

Assistant Lecturer

School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies

Email
rk19251@essex.ac.uk
Location

5A.214, Colchester Campus

Profile

Ask me about

left-Populism, Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, post-Marxism

Biography

I am a political theorist with an interest in continental philosophy, contemporary left-wing politics, and the fate of the nation-state in our globalizing world. My dissertation utilized post-structuralist discourse theory and contemporary political theory to investigate the normative and strategic problems that arise when left-populist movements attempt to articulate the 'nation' as empty signifiers or privileged nodes in their discourse. I focused on the case of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's 2017 presidential campaign in France. I have been published in The New Pretender, the Journal of Political Power and with Bloomsbury.

Qualifications

MA The University of Chicago (2018)
BA Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2016)

Research and professional activities

Thesis

On the Limits of a Left-Populist Nationalism: A Radical Democratic Critique of Jean-Luc Mélenchons Neo-Republicanism, 2015-2017

Contact

rk19251@essex.ac.uk

Location:

5A.214, Colchester Campus