Robert Garner | |
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 Garner, 2013 | |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Professor of politics |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
| Thesis | Ideology and electoral politics in Labour's rise to major party status 1918-31 (1988) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political science; political theory; intellectual history |
| Sub-discipline | Animal rights; animal ethics; green politics |
| Institutions | University of Buckingham; University of Exeter; University of Leicester |
| Website | robert-garner |
Robert Garner is a British political scientist, political theorist, and intellectual historian. He is a Professor Emeritus in the politics department at the University of Leicester , where he has worked for much of his career. Before working at Leicester, he worked at the University of Exeter and the University of Buckingham, and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Salford.
Much of his work concerns animals in politics and ethics. This has been the subject of many of his books, including Animals, Politics and Morality (1993; 2004), Political Animals (1996), Animal Ethics (2005), The Political Theory of Animal Rights (2005), The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition or Regulation (2010, with Gary Francione), A Theory of Justice for Animals (2013), and The Oxford Group and the Emergence of Animal Rights (2020, with Yewande Okuleye). It is also the topic of three collections he edited or co-edited. Garner has also authored or co-authored several textbooks on political science, political parties, and green politics.