Rebecca Buxton
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social
Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy at Bristol
Working on citizenship and immigration, women in the history of philosophy, and the political theory of Judith Shklar
Co-editor of The Philosopher Queens (2020)
Working on citizenship and immigration, women in the history of philosophy, and the political theory of Judith Shklar
Co-editor of The Philosopher Queens (2020)
Pinned
The ERC awards €761m to the next generation of scientists in Europe
The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 478 early-career researchers across Europe to receive this year’s Starting Grants. With a total funding of €761 million, these grants support excellent...
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Some news that I can finally share! From February 2026 I'll be on an ERC Starting Grant focused on refugee-inclusive/refugee-led methods in political philosophy and debates on displacement justice. You can read about other funded projects here: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
Call for Nominations: Onora O’Neill Political Theory Prize
European Consortium for Political Research
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December 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social
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A reminder, if one were needed, that for all their talk of “vile criminal gangs”, our states would punish the Good Samaritan himself if he were to help a migrant
Trial of aid workers accused of facilitating illegal entry of migrants into Greece set to begin
The accused, including Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini and Irishman Sean Binder, were among those providing humanitarian assistance in Europe’s migration crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A reminder, if one were needed, that for all their talk of “vile criminal gangs”, our states would punish the Good Samaritan himself if he were to help a migrant
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Welcome @georgeboss.bsky.social to BlueSky! With a new book coming out (www.routledge.com/Marx-and-the...) + a Leverhulme Fellowship about 2 begin I'm sure there'll be lots of people keen to follow what he's up to e.g. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com @alixdietzel.bsky.social...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Welcome @georgeboss.bsky.social to BlueSky! With a new book coming out (www.routledge.com/Marx-and-the...) + a Leverhulme Fellowship about 2 begin I'm sure there'll be lots of people keen to follow what he's up to e.g. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @brunoleipold.com @alixdietzel.bsky.social...
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Paul, in tehgraun:
‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
The long read: After I was paralysed in a climbing accident, I discovered how inconsiderate, illogical and incompetent many wheelchair providers can be
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December 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Paul, in tehgraun:
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As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:
Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction
Epistemic injustice is one of the most important yet complex subjects to have emerged in philosophy in recent years. It refers to the idea that a person can be wronged when they are not properly belie...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
As of today, you can pre-order my book from the Routledge page, and for today only it's 25% off:
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Final gathering this term of our Bristol pol theory/philosophy group & have now entirely lost my noticeboard 2 handouts on e.g. statelessness, marginalisation, love, universalism, childhood, & even supreme court judgements. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Final gathering this term of our Bristol pol theory/philosophy group & have now entirely lost my noticeboard 2 handouts on e.g. statelessness, marginalisation, love, universalism, childhood, & even supreme court judgements. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social
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'Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this.'
Emeritus Prof Chris Bertram (@crookedfootball.bsky.social) comments on Labour's new immigration policies in a new piece for the @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Emeritus Prof Chris Bertram (@crookedfootball.bsky.social) comments on Labour's new immigration policies in a new piece for the @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 AM
'Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this.'
Emeritus Prof Chris Bertram (@crookedfootball.bsky.social) comments on Labour's new immigration policies in a new piece for the @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Emeritus Prof Chris Bertram (@crookedfootball.bsky.social) comments on Labour's new immigration policies in a new piece for the @lrb.co.uk
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
And does the government remember who historically adopted this policy for a different set of refugees?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Jewellery and valuables belonging to refugees could be seized to pay for housing
‘It is right that if people have money in the bank, if people have assets...they should be contributing’, a Home Office minister said on Monday
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And does the government remember who historically adopted this policy for a different set of refugees?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This Labour government are (frustratingly) making my work more and more relevant every week. Five years ago, I argued that temporary protection policies for refugees are grossly unjust, and here we are making things worse for them again.
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Rebecca Buxton, Justice in waiting: The harms and wrongs of temporary refugee protection - PhilPapers
Temporariness has become the norm in contemporary refugee protection. Many refugees face extended periods of time waiting for permanent status, either in camps or living among citizens in their state ...
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November 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
This Labour government are (frustratingly) making my work more and more relevant every week. Five years ago, I argued that temporary protection policies for refugees are grossly unjust, and here we are making things worse for them again.
philpapers.org/rec/BUXJIW
philpapers.org/rec/BUXJIW
Alba is not very good at knitting but she's always happy to offer moral support
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Alba is not very good at knitting but she's always happy to offer moral support
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📢Time is running out to enter the #Philosophy Essay Prize for 2025.⏳
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢Time is running out to enter the #Philosophy Essay Prize for 2025.⏳
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
This annual competition is an opportunity to get your work seen by a wide audience: the winning essay and the runner-up will be published in our journal, Philosophy.
Details here: buff.ly/HKRN7PD
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I think it's worth noting that u get more time/people/questions & certainly home baking when giving a talk at our Monday morning pol-phi sessions than u do at most conferences. Good to know if contemplating a PhD with e.g. @wiglet1981.bsky.social @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I think it's worth noting that u get more time/people/questions & certainly home baking when giving a talk at our Monday morning pol-phi sessions than u do at most conferences. Good to know if contemplating a PhD with e.g. @wiglet1981.bsky.social @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social
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🌍How can justice be served for victims of the climate crisis?
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🌍How can justice be served for victims of the climate crisis?
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
“Reparative Justice for Climate Refugees” by
@rebeccabuxton.bsky.social is available for free as part of "100 Papers That Shaped Our Thinking." Download here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#climatecrisis #refugees #philosophy
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JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
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Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
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November 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
JOB
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400,
University of Cambridge
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Landed back in the UK and was very excited to find a copy of the new book from @manongarcia.bsky.social in St. Pancras Station!
October 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Landed back in the UK and was very excited to find a copy of the new book from @manongarcia.bsky.social in St. Pancras Station!
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And that's a wrap. Pre-orders open early December, and the book will be published around Christmas if things go to schedule:
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And that's a wrap. Pre-orders open early December, and the book will be published around Christmas if things go to schedule:
Yesterday I landed in Arizona for the 13th Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Workshop. I'm currently working surrounded by hummingbirds while overlooking a swimming pool, which is definitely the most luxurious talk preparation I've ever done
October 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday I landed in Arizona for the 13th Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Workshop. I'm currently working surrounded by hummingbirds while overlooking a swimming pool, which is definitely the most luxurious talk preparation I've ever done
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SAP has a call for panels for next July and I am suddenly taken by the notion of seeing if anyone would be interested in submitting abstracts themed around Mills’s work in epistemology, politics, social ontology or meta-ethics….
Anyone?
Anyone?
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
SAP has a call for panels for next July and I am suddenly taken by the notion of seeing if anyone would be interested in submitting abstracts themed around Mills’s work in epistemology, politics, social ontology or meta-ethics….
Anyone?
Anyone?
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Just had a great start to our fortnightly pol-philosophy talk-and-bake sessions, with excellent @alixdietzel.bsky.social kicking us off talking about the right (& wrong) kinds of love in teaching. Packed room, lots of questions, and lots of love. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Just had a great start to our fortnightly pol-philosophy talk-and-bake sessions, with excellent @alixdietzel.bsky.social kicking us off talking about the right (& wrong) kinds of love in teaching. Packed room, lots of questions, and lots of love. @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social @wiglet1981.bsky.social
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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since I'm doing more stuff, i recently started a weekly(ish) newsletter with whatever articles, podcasts, appearances & some further thoughts on them
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/emailupdates
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September 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
since I'm doing more stuff, i recently started a weekly(ish) newsletter with whatever articles, podcasts, appearances & some further thoughts on them
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/emailupdates
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/emailupdates
The first week of term
a cartoon character without a face is floating in the water .
ALT: a cartoon character without a face is floating in the water .
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September 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The first week of term