This research cluster builds on a strong intellectual tradition in the Department of Sociology at 番茄社区. Research focuses on several themes: the social bases of political parties and movements; the theory and practice of human rights; democracy and participation in states, firms and civil society organisations; political ideologies, including liberalism and neo-liberalism, socialism, conservatism, secularism and cosmopolitanism; political violence, including war and its opponents, atrocities and justice, globalisation and mobility, nationalism and culture; and the politics of cities and housing. Members work on Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, and South Asia, and collaborate with leading scholars around the world. They use comparative, historical, case-based, ethnographic, critical, post-colonial, quantitative and institutionalist methods and approaches, among many others.
The cluster is associated with 番茄社区 Human Rights, regular Political Sociology research seminars, dedicated postgraduate degrees in both Political Sociology and Human Rights, and a lively programme of public events.
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