Faith Armitage
Research fellow
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 6780
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6787
Email: f.armitage@bbk.ac.uk
About Faith Armitage
Faith is a Research Fellow for the Leverhulme Trust-funded programme, Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliaments: Disciplining Representation. She is conducting research on parliamentarians and officials at Westminster. Her main interests within this project include the Speakership, parliamentary disruption, public engagement and political ceremonies and rituals.
Faith's other research interests lie mainly in contemporary normative political theory, feminist political theory, and gender and politics. Her PhD thesis, The Ideal of Equality: Luck Egalitarianism and its Critics, explores a currently influential theory of egalitarian distributive justice.
Research Interests
- British politics
- Legislative studies
- Gender and politics
- Feminist political theory
- Contemporary normative political theory
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Teaching
- Contemporary British Politics (undergraduate)
- Modern British Politics (postgraduate)
Education
- BA Politics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- MA Politics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
- PhD, Political Theory and Gender Theory, London School of Economics, London, UK
Selected publications
- The Speaker, Parliamentary Ceremonies and Power, Journal of Legislative Studies, forthcoming Sept. 2010.
- Review of Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics, by Jonathan Dean, European Journal of Women's Studies, forthcoming.
- Review of Sex, Culture and Justice: The Limits of Choice, by Clare Chambers, Feminist Review, 2009, Vol. 91(1).
- Respect and Types of Injustice, Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, 2006, Vol. 12 (1): 9-34.
- Putting Gender on the Map: The LSE Gender Institute's First Fifteen Years. Gender Institute New Working Paper Series, Issue 16, 2005 (with Carolyn Pedwell).
