RESEARCH PROFILE

I am currently researching and writing in the areas of human rights, antisemitism and cosmopolitan social theory. I am on the executive of the European Sociological Association and help to run its Network 31 on Racism and Antisemitism. I co-edited with Christine Achinger (German Studies) a special issue of European Societies on "Racism, Antisemitism and Islamophobia". I have also co-edited with Daniel Chernilo a special issue of the Journal of Classical Sociology on "Natural law and social theory", due out early 2013. I am pursuing my research on human rights and social theory and preparing a monograph on modernity and antisemitism. My monographs include Cosmopolitanism (Routledge 2007); Democracy and the Rule of Law: Marx's Critique of the Legal Form (Blackburn Press 2002; Pluto 1984 and 1985); Political Investigations: Hegel, Marx, Arendt (Routledge 2001); Being Stalked: A Memoir (Chatto and Windus, 1997); Beyond Apartheid: Labour and Liberation in South Africa (with Dennis Davis, Pluto 1990). My former edited collections include: "Cosmopolitanism: Past and Future", with Vivienne Boon, Special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory April 2007; Social Theory after the Holocaust (with Charles Turner, Liverpool University Press 2000); People, Nation and State (with Edward Mortimer, IB Tauris 1999); Civil Society: Democratic Perspectives (with Shirin Rai Frank Cass 1997); Policing the Miners' Strike (with Robert Millar, Lawrence and Wishart, Cobden Press 1985); Capitalism and the Rule of Law (with Richard Kinsey, John Lea and Jock Young, Hutchinson 1979).

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Fine, R. (2013) 'Natural right and critical theory: dialectical affinities' Journal of Classical Sociology Forthcoming (2),
• Robert Fine,Glynis Cousin, (2013) 'Brothers in Misery: Re-connecting Sociologies of Racism and Anti-Semitism' in Race, Colour, Identity: Rethinking discourses about 'Jews' in the 21st century, Editors: Efraim Sicher, Berghahn Books
• Prof Robert D Fine,Christine Achinger, (2012) 'Guest editors' introduction to the special issue on racism and antisemitism' European Societies 14 (2),
• Fine, Robert,Cousin, Glynis, (2012) 'A common cause: reconnecting the study of racism and antisemitism' European Societies 14 (2), 166 - 185
• Robert Fine (2012) 'Thoughts on the legitimacy of human rights' in Legitimization in World Society, 25 - 44, Editors: Aldo Mascareno and Kathya Araujo, Ashgate

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