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Lauren Tooker Awarded ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD
We are able to report the exceptionally good news that Lauren Tooker, a former PAIS PhD student and now an IAS Early Career Fellow, has been awarded the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for Best PhD. This is a Europe-wide PhD prize, and huge congratulations must go to Lauren on such a tremendous achievement.
The news is now live on the , including the commendations of the prize jury. Lauren鈥檚 thesis was entitled, 鈥極rdinary Democracy: Reading Resistance to Debt after the Global Financial Crisis with Stanley Cavell鈥檚 Ordinary Language Philosophy鈥�.
Using a theoretical approach rooted in Cavell鈥檚 ordinary language philosophy, Lauren鈥檚 thesis shows how ordinary democratic subjects are opposing debt-based economic citizenship in the UK and the US. The study's central argument is that debt鈥檚 ordinary democrats are reconstructing debt relations as a site of democratic selfhood and community in finance, thus representing important practices of civic freedom.
Lauren was a GEM School PhD student funded through our Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme. She was supervised through her degree at Warwick by Lena Rethel, James Brassett and Matthew Watson, and at the Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles by Firouzeh Nahavandi. She was examined by Paul Langley (Durham), Amandine Crespy (ULB) and Mike Saward (Warwick).