Dr Elizabeth Frazer (BA MA DPhil)

Post: University Lecturer in Politics, Official Fellow, New College

Introduction

For CV and other information see

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~efrazer/default.htm

Research Areas and Interests

Work in Progress
1. A series of papers on the broad themes of ‘what politics ought to be’ and ‘political virtue’ by way of critical study of the thought of figures including Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and also Rousseau and Wollstonecraft.
2. With Kim Hutchings, LSE, a series of papers on the theme of political violence and its justification, including critical study of Machiavelli, Clausewitz, Weber, Schmitt, Arendt, de Beauvoir, Merleau Ponty, Fanon, Sartre, Derrida, as well as just war theorists and feminist critics of violence.
3. ‘Shakespeare and the Political Way’ - a study of the theme of political virtue as envisioned in Shakespeare’s dramas.
4. With Sophie Duchesne and Florence Haegel (Cevipof, Paris) and Jean-Paul Frognier (University of Louvain) a project (called ‘How Discussion Becomes Political) producing and analysing citizens’ conflictual political discussion on the subject of european membership. This project is funded by Leverhulme Trust and the Ministere Delegue a la Recherche, Action Concertee Initiative, France.

Teaching Responsibilities

Lectures on the 'history of political thought' from Plato to Weber; course provider for History of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau; undergraduate tuition also on Political Theory, Political Sociology and Marx and Marxism; graduate lectures and classes on Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and research methods including interviewing, focus group research, and text and discourse analysis.

More details of my university teaching can be found at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~efrazer/default.htm

(go to 'Lectures and Teaching')

Media Expertise

Citizenship education; public political culture; community and communitarianism.

Publications

Main Publications

for full list go to http://users.ox.ac.uk/~efrazer/default.htm

‘Max Weber on Ethics and Politics’ in Politics and Ethics Review Vol 2 no.1 Spring 2006 pp 19-37

‘Sex Differences in Political Knowledge in Britain’ with Ken Macdonald in Political Studies vol 51 no.1 March 2003

' "Probably the most public occasion the world has ever known": public and private in press coverage of the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales' in Journal of Political Ideologies vol 5 pp201-223 2000

'Citizenship Education: Anti-Political Culture and Political Education in Britain' Political Studies vol 48 pp88-103 2000. Abridged version published in Education for Democracy: Contexts, Curricula, Assessments Walter C Parker (ed) Greenwich Ct: Information Age Publishing 2002; abridged version published in Andrew Lockyer, Bermard Crick and John Annette (eds) Education for Democratic Citizenship: issues of theory of practice Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003

The Problems of Communitarian Politics: Unity and Conflict: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999 [Preface and Introduction]

Elizabeth Frazer and Nicola Lacey (1993): The Politics of Community: a Feminist Critique of the Liberal Communitarian Debate, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead

Elizabeth Frazer, Jennifer Hornsby, Sabina Lovibond, (eds) (1993) Ethics: a Feminist Reader Blackwell, Oxford

Feminist Talk and Talking about Feminism: teenage girls' discourses of gender". Oxford Review of Education vol 15 1989

Cameron,Deborah; Frazer,Elizabeth (1989): "Knowing What to Say: the Construction of Gender in Linguistic Practice". In: Social Anthropology and the Politics of Language. Sociological Review Monograph 36. (Ed: Grillo,Ralph) Routledge, London

"Teenage Girls Talking About Class". Sociology Vol 22 1988

Deborah Cameron and Elizabeth Frazer, (1987): The Lust to Kill: a feminist investigation of sexual murder. Polity Press, Cambridge.