Dr. James Ranger is a postdoctoral researcher trained in both the Anglo-American analytic and European continental traditions of philosophy and the history of political thought. He is passionate about bringing political and philosophical ideas and approaches to bear on developments in technology and digital communications. A fun fact about him is that he is a Londoner in Berlin. 

Dr. James Ranger’s interests lie in the relationship between political organisation and the technical configuration of social life, specifically how technology changes our perceptions of culture, nature, politics and the human, and how these disruptions and innovations challenge our inherited ideas from the history of political thought. More practically, he is interested in digital populism, digital citizenship and ideological communication on social media.     

• Ranger, J., & Ranger, W. (2023). Towards a resonant theory of memory politics. Memory Studies, 16(2), 451–464. 
• Ranger, J. (2020). Slow Down! Digital Deceleration Towards A Socialist Social Media. tripleC: communication, capitalism, critique, 18(1), 254-267 

• Path to Power Policy Reports. 
• Book Proposal: Technics, Ontology and the Political. 
• Book Proposal: Where is Politics? Sites, Spaces, Bodies, Places. 

Education  

• DPhil (Politics) - St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. 2018 – 2023. 
• MPhil (Political Theory) - St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. 2016 – 2018. 
• MSc (Political Theory) - London School of Economics & Political Science. 2014 – 2015. 
• BA (Politics & Philosophy) - University of Sheffield. 2011 – 2014. 

Experience 

University College London, Senior Tutor (2022 – 2023). 

• Theoretical Foundations of Human Rights (MA course) 

• The Ethics of Crime and Punishment 

• Foundations of Political Thought 

St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (2022). 

• History of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau 

• History of Political Thought: Bentham to Weber