Dr Andrew Schaap

My main area of research is contemporary political theory, with specific interests in the work of Hannah Arendt, Jacques Rancière and theories of radical democracy. My research draws on debates in democratic theory about agonism to examine issues surrounding reconciliation, indigenous politics, immigration and civility.

Prior to joining the University Exeter in 2007, I held research posts in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and as an Australian Research Council (ARC) postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne. In 2011, I was a Visiting Fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University. I have been based at Exeter University's Penryn campus in Cornwall since January 2019. In 2023, I was a visiting researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.