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Liam Farrell is a Irish Research Council Government of Ireland doctoral candidate in the Power Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster at the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway, where he is also a teacher/occasional lecturer in sociology, philosophy of social science and political theory as well as a board member of the Social Science Research Centre, and an affiliated researcher at the Moore Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Liam's predominant research interest is social and political theory and his doctoral dissertation, under the supervision of Dr Kevin Ryan and Prof Mark Haugaard explores the concept of non-domination  in relation to republican  democratic theory and bio-power.  More specifically Liam is trying to think through the concept of non-domination in the context of a performative theory of radical democracy. To such an end, Liam works primarily on the writings of Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Rancière, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Philip Pettit.

More broadly speaking Liam's research interests include: Contemporary and Classical Social and Political Theory; Post-Marxist and Poststructuralist Theory; Critical Theory; Bio-politics/Bio-power; Feminist Theory; and Philosophy of Science.