Raia Prokhovnik

Raia Prokhovnik
Born	(1951-05-07) 7 May 1951
Academic background
Alma mater	London School of Economics
Thesis	Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan (1981)
Academic work
Institutions	Open University
Main interests	Feminist political theory, sovereignty, early modern political thought
Notable works	Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy

Raia Prokhovnik (born 7 May 1951) is a scholar in political theory. She is the founding editor of the journal Contemporary Political Theory, and was a reader in politics at the Open University's Department of Politics and International Studies.

Education

Her first degree was in political science and history from the University of New South Wales (1974), and her MSc and PhD, Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes's Leviathan, are from the London School of Economics (1976 and 1980).

Teaching

Prokhovnik spent six years teaching and research at Royal Holloway, University of London, and at the University of Southampton. She joined the Open University in 2000.

Bibliography

Books

• Prokhovnik, Raia (1991). Rhetoric and philosophy in Hobbes' Leviathan. New York: Garland. ISBN 9780815301424.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (1999). Rational woman: a feminist critique of dichotomy. Routledge. ISBN 9780415146180.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2004). Spinoza and republicanism. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780333733905.
• Prokhovnik, Raia; Huysmans, Jef; Dobson, Andrew, eds. (2006). The politics of protection: sites of insecurity and political agency. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415499163.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2007). Sovereignties: contemporary theory and practice. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403913234.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2008). Sovereignty: history and theory. Imprint Academic. ISBN 9781845401412.
• Prokhovnik, Raia; Slomp, Gabriella, eds. (2011). International political theory after Hobbes: analysis, interpretation and orientation. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230241145.
• Prokhovnik, Raia; Browning, Gary; Dimova-Cookson, Maria, eds. (2012). Dialogues with contemporary political theorists. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230303058.
• Prokhovnik, Raia, ed. (2012). Making policy, shaping lives. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781848734654.

Book chapters

• Prokhovnik, Raia (2004), "Rights and justice in international relations", in Brown, William; Bromley, Simon; Athreye, Suma (eds.), Ordering the international: history, change and transformation, Pluto Press, pp. 227–262, ISBN 9780745321370.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2007), "Rationality", in Blakeley, Georgina; Bryson, Valerie (eds.), The impact of feminism on political concepts and debates, Manchester University Press, pp. 12–24, ISBN 9780719075117.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2009), "Political leadership and sovereignty", in Femia, Joseph; Slomp, Gabriella; Körösényi, András (eds.), Political leadership in liberal and democratic theory, Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, pp. 151–176, ISBN 9781845401726.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2011), "Hobbes, sovereignty, and politics: rethinking international political space", in Prokhovnik, Raia; Slomp, Gabriella (eds.), International political theory after Hobbes: analysis, interpretation and orientation, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 189–212, ISBN 9780230241145.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2012), "Talking about policy", in Prokhovnik, Raia (ed.), Making policy, shaping lives, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 145–182, ISBN 9781848734654.

Journal articles

• Prokhovnik, Raia; Browning, Gary (1995). "Hobbes, Hegel and modernity". Hobbes Studies. 8 (1): 88–104. doi:10.1163/187502595X00053.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (March 1996). "Sovereignty in Hobbes, Spinoza, and contemporary Europe". The European Legacy. 1 (1): 285–290. doi:10.1080/10848779608579408.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (September 1996). "Internal/external: the state of sovereignty". Contemporary Politics. 2 (3): 7–20. doi:10.1080/13569779608454736.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (January 1997). "From democracy to aristocracy: Spinoza, reason and politics". History of European Ideas. 23 (2–4): 105–115. doi:10.1016/S0191-6599(96)00012-5.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (September 1998). "Public and private citizenship: from gender invisibility to feminist inclusiveness". Feminist Review. 60 (1): 84–104. doi:10.1080/014177898339406. JSTOR 1395548. S2CID 145445422.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (April 1999). "The state of liberal sovereignty". The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 1 (1): 63–83. doi:10.1111/1467-856X.00004. S2CID 146728672.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (January 2001). "Spinoza's conception of sovereignty". History of European Ideas. 27 (3): 289–306. doi:10.1016/S0191-6599(01)00051-1. S2CID 144496826.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (January 2005). "Hobbes's artifice as social construction". Hobbes Studies. 18 (1): 74–95. doi:10.1163/187502505X00052.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (September 2009). "'Men are not born fit for citizenship, but must be made so': Spinoza and citizenship" (PDF). Citizenship Studies. 13 (4): 413–429. doi:10.1080/13621020903011237. S2CID 40454530.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (May 2011). "An interview with Quentin Skinner". Contemporary Political Theory. 10 (2): 273–285. doi:10.1057/cpt.2010.26. S2CID 144967819.
• Prokhovnik, Raia; Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (June 2014). "Embodied relationality and caring after death" (PDF). Body & Society. 20 (2): 18–43. doi:10.1177/1357034X13506469. S2CID 8016636.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (July 2014). "Introduction: the body as a site for politics: citizenship and practices of contemporary slavery". Citizenship Studies. 18 (5): 465–484. doi:10.1080/13621025.2014.923700. S2CID 144961869.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (2015). "Thomas Hobbes and the politics of nature and artifice". Hobbes Studies. 28 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1163/18750257-02801001.
• Prokhovnik, Raia (June 2015). "From sovereignty in Australia to Australian sovereignty" (PDF). Political Science. 63 (2): 412–430. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.699.5961. doi:10.1111/1467-9248.12069. S2CID 143104153. {{cite journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help)

See also

• Feminist political theory
• Sovereignty
• Political philosophy
• Baruch Spinoza