Dr Tom Bentley
Senior Lecturer
- About
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Biography
I studied a BA in Politics at the University of Sheffield, before completing an MA and PhD in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Initially as a Teaching Fellow, I joined the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen in 2014. My book Empires of Remorse: Narrative, Postcolonialism and Apologies for Colonial Atrocity is published by Routledge. I have published original research articles in Review of International Studies, Third World Quarterly, Contemporary Political Theory, Cooperation and Conflict and Journal of Human Rights.
- Research
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Research Overview
- Collective memory and memory studies
- Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory
- Political apologies
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- PI1018 Introduction to Politics and International Relations
- PI2009 Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations
- PI3570 Memory and the Politics of the Past (convenor)
- IR5001 International Relations: Theories and Concepts
- Publications
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‘Culture War’: The contradictions of conservative representations in the mnemonic battle over the British Empire
The Handbook on the Politics of Memory. Mälksoo, M. (ed.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe negotiated apology: ‘Double ventriloquism’ in addressing historical wrongs
Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1-11Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhen is a justice campaign over?: Transitional justice, ‘overing’ and Bloody Sunday
Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 394-413Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836721989365
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A line under the past: Performative temporal segregation in transitional justice
Journal of Human Rights, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 598-613Contributions to Journals: ArticlesState apology: The simultaneously hegemonic and brittle ritual
Handbook of Disaster Ritual. Hoondert, M., Post, P., Klomp, M., Barnard, M. (eds.). Peeters Publishers, pp. 535-548, 14 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersSettler state apologies and the elusiveness of forgiveness: The purification ritual that does not purify
Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 19, pp. 381-403Contributions to Journals: ArticlesColonial apologies and the problem of the transgressor speaking
Third World Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 399-417Contributions to Journals: ArticlesShould a nation apologise for the crimes of its past?
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesEmpires of Remorse: Narrative, postcolonialism and apologies for colonial atrocity
Routledge, London and New York. 185 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746722
The sorrow of empire: Rituals of legitimation and the performative contradictions of liberalism
Review of International Studies, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 623-645Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210514000394