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Exploring the borderlands of solidarity: Europe and the refugee question (2021)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2021). Exploring the borderlands of solidarity: Europe and the refugee question. In D. Meacham, & N. de Warren (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy in Europe. Routledge

This paper examines the concept of solidarity employed by activists in Greece working with asylum seekers and other migrants, and asks whether the ideas of solidarity that have emerged from this activism can tell us something about the theoretical co... Read More about Exploring the borderlands of solidarity: Europe and the refugee question.

Deliver us from evil: The case for scepticism (2019)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2019). Deliver us from evil: The case for scepticism. In T. Nys, & S. De Wijze (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Evil. Routledge

This chapter critically examines the philosophical arguments against the case for evil scepticism that I first outlined in my book, The Myth of Evil. It re-assesses and strengthens the case for scepticism by addressing some of the latest attempts to... Read More about Deliver us from evil: The case for scepticism.

Climate change and global displacement (2018)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2018). Climate change and global displacement. In B. Schippers (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Rethinking Ethics in International Relations. Routledge

With the numbers of people displaced by climate-change related disasters predicted to be in the many millions, this chapter examines the possible frameworks that could offer those displaced some form of protection, as at present they fall outside the... Read More about Climate change and global displacement.

Insider theory and the construction of statelessness (2017)
Book Chapter
Cole, P. (2017). Insider theory and the construction of statelessness. In P. Cole, T. Bloom, & K. Tonkiss (Eds.), Understanding Statelessness (255-266). London and New York: Routledge

In this chapter I adopt a 'radically theoretical' perspective to expose and interrogate the assumptions about the political systems in which we live which sit at the heart of political theory and to problematize these from the perspective of stateles... Read More about Insider theory and the construction of statelessness.

Providing a framework for understanding statelessness (2017)
Book Chapter
Cole, P., Bloom, T., & Tonkiss, K. (2017). Providing a framework for understanding statelessness. In P. Cole, T. Bloom, & K. Tonkiss (Eds.), Understanding Statelessness (1-14). London and New York: Routledge

This is an introduction to the book Understanding Statelessness, setting the collection in the context of the current theoretical and political landscape.