Dr. Steve Cooke completed his undergraduate degree in Politics at the Open University. He has a Master’s Degree in Human Rights and a PhD in Politics from the University of Manchester. In 2012 Dr. Cooke was awarded the Society for Applied Philosophy’s 30th Anniversary Research Fellowship to research the use of violence in defence of non-human animals and the environment. His main area of research focuses on duties to non-human animals and the ethical status of law-breaking and political protest carried out for their sakes.
He is the author of What Are Animal Rights For?, published in 2023 by Bristol University Press.
Experience
–present
Associate Professor of Political Theory, University of Leicester
2015–2020
Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Leicester
2014–2015
University Teacher in Theory and Animal Rights , University of Sheffield
2014–2014
Teaching Fellow in Environmental Politics, University of Keele
2012–2013
Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Education
2012
University of Manchester, PhD
2009
University of Manchester, MA (Human rights)
Publications
2023
What are Animal Rights For?, Bristol University Press
2021
Cosmopolitan Disobedience, Journal of International Political Theory
2021
The Ethics of Touch and the Importance of Nonhuman Relationships in Animal Agriculture, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
2019
Betraying Animals, Journal of Ethics
2017
Imagined Utopias: Animal Rights and the Moral Imagination, Journal of Political Philosophy
2017
Animal Kingdoms: on habitat rights for wild animals, Environmental Values
2014
'Perpetual Strangers: animals and the cosmopolitan right, Political Studies
2013
Animal rights and environmental terrorism, Journal of Terrorism Research