Dr Luca Mavelli

Luca joined the University of Kent in September 2012. Before that, he taught at the University of Surrey, was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, and held teaching positions at the University of Queensland, Australia and the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He received his PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth in 2009.

Luca's research critically engages with neoliberalism, focusing on its intersections with climate change, citizenship, infrastructures, digital society, secularism and religion. He is the author of Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives (Oxford University Press, 2022) and of Europe's Encounter with Islam: The Secular and Postsecular (Routledge, 2012). he has co-edited, with Fabio Petito, The Postsecular in International Relations (2012 Special Issue of the Review of International Studies) and Towards a Postsecular International Politics: New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power (Palgrave, 2014), and, with Erin K. Wilson, The Refugee Crisis and Religion: Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017). His articles have been published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Environmental Politics, Political Geography, Critical Sociology, Distinktion, Journal of Social Theory, Citizenship Studies, International Political Sociology, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Security Dialogue, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, International Politics, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Journal of Religion in Europe, and Teaching in Higher Education.

Undergraduate:

• POLI4000: Roots of Contemporary Politics
• POLI5016: The Politics of Climate Change
• POLI6010: Final Year Project
• POLI6021: Politics of the Global Economy

Postgraduate:

• POLI7001: Advanced Topics in Politics and International Relations

Luca is interested in supervising PhD students on topics related to his research interests and more broadly in the field of religion and international politics.