Biography

 

Christopher Tooley

Christopher Tooley

  • Alumni
  • New Zealand
  • 2002 PhD Education
  • Girton College

I have always been interested in how peoples/nations struggle to determine their own political status, including constitutional and governance configurations, through the mechanism of self-determination. My research at Cambridge focused on the evolution of self-determination, its political, philosophical and cultural tensions, and how struggles negotiate constraint and mobilise activism - all towards describing an ethics of self-determination. The model was then applied to the case of Palestine.