Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Main general research interests: social theory, ideology and politics, philosophy of social sciences
Current work revolves around a critical evaluation of postcolonial and postsecular social theory in relation to the legacy of the radical enlightenment and the nature of social science.
Other ongoing themes: versions of sociological theory; sociology and cultural studies; complexity theory and critical realism; Marxism and post-Marxism; literature and social theory.
Some recent publications are given below.
External positions
Trustee, The Professor Stuart Hall Foundation
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Projects
- 3 Finished
Leverhulme Trust - Postsecular Social Theory and the Idea of Critique
1/10/12 → 1/08/13
Project: Research
THE DYNAMICS OF TRANSFORMATIVE IDEAS IN CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC DISCOURSE
1/01/02 → 1/01/04
Project: Research
Research Output
Religious Returns: Marxism, Postsecularism, Theology
McLennan, G., 1 Sep 2020, (In preparation) The Sage Handbook of Marxism. Skeggs, B., Toscana, A. & Farris, S. (eds.). London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 20 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Postsecular Plasticity: Expansive Secularism
McLennan, G., 1 Jan 2019, Routledge Handbook of Postsecularity. Beaumont, J. (ed.). London & New York: Routledge, p. 247-57 10 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
The postsecular Marx
McLennan, G., Feb 2019, In : Journal of Classical Sociology. 19, 1, p. 72-86 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Open Access
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Thesis
Analysis of the emergence of two Chilean Conditional Cash Transfer programmes.
Author: Olivera Zuniga, P., 23 Jan 2019Supervisor: McLennan, G. (Supervisor) & Gordon, D. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Governing the knowledge economy : the World Bank as a gatekeeper for development
Author: Everett, G., 2004Supervisor: McLennan, G. (Supervisor) & Osborne, T. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Intercivilisational Social Theory: Complementarity and Contradiction in the Muslim and Western Intellectual Traditions
Author: Meynagh, S. J. M., 2005Supervisor: McLennan, G. (Supervisor) & Barot, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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