Emma R. Norman was an associate professor in political theory at the University of
the Americas - Puebla, Mexico from 2003-2010 and is lead Co-Editor in Chief of the
international peer-reviewed journal Politics and Policy. She obtained her joint BA in
History and Government (1993), her MA in Political Theory (1994) and her doctorate in
political philosophy (1999) from the Department of Government at the University of Essex,
UK, where she also taught international relations and political theory for three years. 

Dr. Norman's monograph El yo politico: concepciones del yo, la política, y la
autonomía en la teoría política contemporánea [The Political Self: Conceptions of the
Self, Politics and Autonomy in Contemporary Political Theory] was published in Spanish
translation in by Ediciones Coyoacán (Mexico) in 2007. Dr. Norman is also the author of
several peer reviewed articles, chapters, and international conference papers on concepts
in political philosophy and applied ethics including animal rights policy, just war,
rights and sovereignty, issues of political identity, citizenship and international
political theory. Her current research interests focus on collective identity formation,
the concept of the state and political evil in the work of Hannah Arendt and Carl
Schmitt.

Violence and Identity

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"Applying Carl Schmitt to Global Puzzles: Identity, Conflict and the Friend/Enemy Antithesis,", American Political Science Association Annual Conference (2009)

This paper demonstrates the broad appeal and usefulness of the political and legal thought of...

 

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Violence and Deprivation: Arendt and the Pervasiveness of Superfluous Life, Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Annual Conference (2009)

This paper emerges from, and engages with, the current proliferation of discussions concerning Arendt’s views...

 

Conceptions of Politics, Political Identity

El yo político. Concepciones del yo, la política y la autonomía en la teoría política contemporánea (2007)

LA AUTORA EXPLORA CÓMO LOS CONCEPTOS DEL "YO" Y LA "POLÍTICA" HAN SIDO CONCEPTUALIZADOS EN...

 
Agonism, Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought (2001)
 

Ethics and International Relations

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Justice and Justification in the War on Terrorism, The VIIth Congress of the Americas (2006)

This paper offers a few preliminary reflections on some ethical implications stemming from the disconnect...

 

Journal Publishing in Political Science

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Some Dos and Don'ts of Journal Article Publication, PhD. Workshop on Publishing in Political Science: University of the Americas Puebla and University of Southern Mississippi Joint Workshop (2009)

Here I cover some of the topics that graduate students might be interested in concerning...

 

Animal Rights Policy

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'Like Butter Scraped over Too Much Bread': Animal Protection Policy in Mexico (with Norma Contreras Hernández), Review of Policy Research (2005)

Over the past fifteen years Mexico has developed a string of comprehensive animal protection regulations...