Most of my research to date has concentrated on questions in the philosophy of social justice activism.  Realising any plausible conception of social justice seems to require demanding political action of various kinds: campaigning, protesting, boycotting, and so on. I take the central question in the philosophy of social justice activism to be: which forms of political activism are the most desirable means of bringing about a more just future? 

My published work grapples with various facets of this broad question. My article on political organizing offers a definition of organizing work which distinguishes it from other activist practices, and argues that some political organizing can play an important role in curtailing support for inequality-promoting ideologies. 

My article on democratic municipalism reconstructs an overlooked intellectual resource in the thought of the philosopher and historian Murray Bookchin which can contribute to recent debates about the most appropriate agents for realizing social justice.

And my article on activist-led education responds to the criticism that educational practices undertaken by social justice activists within their organisations tend to involve indoctrination and will therefore be morally impermissible. 

Outside of the philosophy of social justice activism, I also have interests in socialist political thought (including Marxism and social anarchism), democratic theory and partisanship, and the philosophy of childhood and education.