Paulina Ochoa

Paulina Ochoa is Assistant Professor of Political Science. She took her PhD at Johns Hopkins University in 2006. Before joining the Department, she held a Carey Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Erasmus Institute at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in contemporary political theory and the history of political thought. She is currently working on a new research project on the legitimization of the territory and the borders of the democratic state.

 

Book

The Time of Popular Sovereignty: Process and the Democratic State, Penn State University Press, 2011.

Articles

"Paradoxes of Popular Sovereignty: A view from Spanish America," The Journal of Politics, (Forthcoming)

"Creative Freedom: Henri Bergson and Democratic Theory" in Alex Lefebvre and Melanie White (eds.), Bergson, Politics and Religion, Duke University Press, 2012.

"Does Political Theology Entail Decisionism?," Philosophy and Social Criticism, Forthcoming (accepted 2009)

"On Political Theology and the Possibility of Superseding It," Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 13, 2 (2010), pp. 475-494.

"World Citizenship vs. State Sovereignty: Decisionism, Political Theology and the possibility of Democracy without a State," Distinktion, Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory Vol. 1 (2001), n. 2.

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