Joshua Mousie
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Joshua Mousie is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oxford College. His philosophical interests are primarily in the history of political thought and environmental philosophy. His current research focuses on the nature and politics of built environments, especially city infrastructures. His current book project is tentatively entitled Built Power: Critical Infrastructure and Political Belonging. It is an investigation of the forms of political power and practice that create our contemporary built environs, and in it Mousie examines the ways these spaces relate to inequality and oppression. His current research also includes theories of structural power, critical theories of political action and resistance, and the concept of historical materialism. Outside of his academic work, Mousie likes to watch slow, boring movies, read as many novels as possible, and obsess about music.
Education
MA| Boston College| 2007
Ph.D.| University of Guelph| 2015
Courses Taught
PHIL 100: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 120: Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 202: Renaissance and Modern Philosophy
PHIL 204: 19th and 20th Century Philosophy
PHIL 317: Environmental Ethics
Honors 300: Contemporary Environmental Political Theory
DSC101: Politics and Liberation
Accomplishments
2018 Allen Grant recipient
Publications
"The Environmental Turn in Locke Scholarship," forthcoming in Ethics & the Environment, Spring 2019
“Global Environmental Justice and Postcolonial Critique,” in Environmental Philosophy, Fall 2012.
“Unfinished Circlings: Schelling’s Hermeneutic History,” in Analecta Hermeneutica, 2009.
Works in Progress
"Structural Power, Built Power, and the Politics of Nonhuman Rights"
"The Power of Infrastructure: Political Lessons from Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis"
"Eminent Domain and Housing Politics in Atlanta, GA"
Monograph: Liberating Infrastructure: A Critical Theory of Built Environments
Presentations
Refereed
'Infrastructure as the Subject of Injustice,' Association for Political Theory, 2018 (forthcoming).
'Built Environments and Political Belonging: Eminent Domain in Atlanta and the U.S.,' Western Political Science Association, 2018.
‘Flint, Michigan and Political Environmental Exclusion,’ Western Political Science Association, 2017.
‘From Statelessness to Environmentlessness: Arendt and Environmental Injustice,’ The International Association of Environmental Philosophy, 2016.
‘On the Domination of Nature: Critiquing Political Discourse in Environmental Ethics,’ International Society for Environmental Ethics meeting at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, 2015.
‘Latin American Environmental Movements and Global Politics’, The International Association of Environmental Philosophy, 2012.
‘Ecuador and the Rights of Nature,’ Western Political Science Association, 2011.
‘Locke and the Provisos of Property,’ American Philosophical Association Central Meeting (main program), 2011.
‘Misology and Identity in Plato’s Phaedo,’ Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, 2006.
Commentaries
Panel Discussant, "The Politics of Memory," Association for Political Theory, 2017.
Panel Discussant, “Race and the Environment,” Western Political Science Association, 2017.
Panel Discussant, “Environmental Discourses,” Western Political Science Association, 2016.
Research Interests
social and political philosophy, environmental philosophy, the history of Marxian thought, postcolonial theory, history of political theory, the black radical tradition in political thought, nonhuman animal ethics and politics.