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Associate Professor Christine Hobden
Associate Professor
Christine Hobden is an Associate Professor in Ethics and Public Governance. She holds a DPhil in Politics (Political Theory) from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Before joining Wits School of Governance, Hobden lectured in Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare (2017 – 2021) and held a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute (2015 – 2016). In 2023, she was awarded a Y1 Research Rating for emerging scholars by the South African National Research Foundation.
Hobden recently held an Iso Lomso Fellowship for early career African Scholars at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (2019 – 2022). She is an editor at Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory and a part of the leadership of the Association of Political Theory in Africa (APTA).
Her research explores normative questions about democratic citizenship and international justice. Her book, Citizenship in a Globalised World, conceptualises a state-based citizenship that is fundamentally collective and globally-oriented. Her current research projects develop an account of political consumerism as a channel of civic responsibility and, drawing on the life and work of Rick Turner, an argument for becoming ‘engaged political philosophers’.
1. Review of Avia Pasternak’s Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoing? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
Res Publica
2023/03 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1007/s11158-022-09572-1
2. South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract
Theoria
2022/12/01 | journal-article
DOI: 10.3167/th.2022.6917303
ISSN: 0040-5817
ISSN: 1558-5816
3. Facing up to complexity again: author’s reply to critics
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
2022/05/16 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2075151
ISSN: 1369-8230
ISSN: 1743-8772
4. “What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?”
Black Panther and Philosophy
2022/01/11 | book-chapter
DOI: 10.1002/9781119635871.ch4
5. Citizenship from the Couch: Public Engagement and Private Norms in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
Philosophical Papers
2021/09/02 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1080/05568641.2022.2026246
ISSN: 0556-8641
ISSN: 1996-8523
6. Citizenship in a Globalised World
Routledge Press
2021/05/04 | book
ISBN: ISBN9780367767297
7. Territorial Sovereignty: A Discussion
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
2020/06/01 | journal-article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2020.6716304
8. Shrinking South Africa: Hidden Agendas in South African Citizenship Practice
Politikon
2019/11/15 | journal-article
DOI: 10.1080/02589346.2019.1691813
ISSN: 0258-9346
ISSN: 1470-1014
9. Unequal Political Engagement and the Possible Risks to Democracy
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
2018/09 | journal-article
10. Global justice, states, and the relational view
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
2017/11/04 | journal-article
11. Taking up the slack: The duties of source state citizens in the brain drain crisis
South African Journal of Philosophy
2017/01 | journal-article
Personal Information
Christine Hobden
Websites and Profiles
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Toggle ORCID item details Personal Website
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- http://www.christinehobden.co.za
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Toggle ORCID item details WSG Website
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- https://www.wsg.ac.za/people/associate-professor-christine-hobden
Activities
Employment 2
Toggle ORCID item details 2021-05-01 to present | Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Governance (Wits School of Governance) Employment
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- 2021-05-01 to present
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- Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Public Governance
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- Wits School of Governance
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- University of Witswatersand
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- Johannesburg, ZA
Toggle ORCID item details 2017-01-01 to 2021-04-30 | Lecturer (Philosophy) Employment
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- 2017-01-01 to 2021-04-30
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- Lecturer
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- Philosophy
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- University of Fort Hare
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- East London, ZA
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- 70679
Works 16
Toggle ORCID item details Rick Turner and Engaged Political Philosophy as Activist Research Research and Activism: Ruth First and Activist Research Book Chapter
- Publication date
- 2025-05-06
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- Research and Activism: Ruth First and Activist Research
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- Book Chapter
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- https://doi.org/10.35293/esi.36
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- Christine Hobden
Toggle ORCID item details Rick Turner and the Vision of Engaged Political Philosophy Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible Book Chapter
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- 2024-07-01
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- Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible
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- Book Chapter
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- https://witspress.co.za/page/detail/Rick-Turner/?k=9781776148936
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- 9781776148936
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- 10.18772/22024078936
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Toggle ORCID item details Taking socio-political context seriously: reflections from teaching public service ethics to postgraduates during a global health emergency Reimagining South African Higher Education: Towards a Student-Centred Learning and Teaching Future Book Chapter
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- 2024-06-24
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- Reimagining South African Higher Education: Towards a Student-Centred Learning and Teaching Future
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- Book Chapter
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.52779/9781991260468/05
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- 10.52779/9781991260468/05
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- 9781991260468
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Toggle ORCID item details Review of Avia Pasternak’s Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoing? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) Res Publica Journal Article
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- 2023-03
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- Res Publica
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-022-09572-1
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- 10.1007/s11158-022-09572-1
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- Christine Hobden
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Toggle ORCID item details South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social Contract Theoria Journal Article
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- 2022-12-01
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- Theoria
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2022.6917303
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- 10.3167/th.2022.6917303
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- 0040-5817
- ISSN
- 1558-5816
- Short Description
- <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Over the COVID-19 period, much attention has been paid to the governance relationship between citizens and the state. In this article, however, we focus on a feature that is less evident in the day-to-day living of the social contract: the relationship between citizens. Because this horizontal cohesion is critical to the social contract, we suggest that it should not be neglected, even amid a deepening crisis of state–citizen relations. Using the case of South Africa's vaccine roll-out as an illustration, we argue that certain kinds of state failures – failures in making complex fairness decisions, in treating citizens as equals when enacting these decisions, and in providing public justification for these decisions – risk dual damage to both citizen–state and citizen–citizen relations and so undermine an already fragile social contract.</jats:p>
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Toggle ORCID item details Facing up to complexity again: author’s reply to critics Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Journal Article
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- 2022-05-16
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- Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2075151
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- 10.1080/13698230.2022.2075151
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- 1369-8230
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- 1743-8772
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- @article{Hobden_2022, doi = {10.1080/13698230.2022.2075151}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13698230.2022.2075151}, year = 2022, month = {may}, publisher = {Informa {UK} Limited}, pages = {1--13}, author = {Christine Hobden}, title = {Facing up to complexity again: author's reply to critics}, journal = {Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy}}
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Toggle ORCID item details Citizenship from the Couch: Public Engagement and Private Norms in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond Philosophical Papers Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2022-04-25
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- Philosophical Papers
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2022.2026246
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- 10.1080/05568641.2022.2026246
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- 0556-8641
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- 1996-8523
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- @article{Hobden_2021, doi = {10.1080/05568641.2022.2026246}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080%2F05568641.2022.2026246}, year = 2021, month = {sep}, publisher = {Informa {UK} Limited}, volume = {50}, number = {3}, pages = {407--434}, author = {Christine Hobden and Heidi Matisonn}, title = {Citizenship from the Couch: Public Engagement and Private Norms in the {COVID}-19 Pandemic and Beyond}, journal = {Philosophical Papers}}
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Toggle ORCID item details “What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?” Black Panther and Philosophy Book Chapter
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- 2022-01-11
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- Black Panther and Philosophy
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- Book Chapter
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119635871.ch4
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- 10.1002/9781119635871.ch4
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- @misc{Hobden_2022, doi = {10.1002/9781119635871.ch4}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1002%2F9781119635871.ch4}, year = 2022, month = {jan}, publisher = {Wiley}, pages = {32--41}, author = {Christine Hobden}, title = {{\textquotedblleft}What Would You Have Wakanda Do about It?{\textquotedblright}}}
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Toggle ORCID item details Citizenship in a Globalised World Routledge Press Book
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- 2021-05-04
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- Routledge Press
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- Book
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- https://www.routledge.com/Citizenship-in-a-Globalised-World/Hobden/p/book/9780367767297
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- ISBN9780367767297
Toggle ORCID item details Citizen Responsibility, Sovereign States, and our Globalized World Sovereignty as Value Book Chapter
- Publication date
- 2021-03-15
- Journal title
- Sovereignty as Value
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- Book Chapter
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- https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615886/Sovereignty-as-Value#:~:text=Summary-,Sovereignty%20as%20Value%20is%20one%20of%20the%20first%20books%20to,of%20rights%2C%20limitation%20and%20legitimacy.
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- 978-1-78661-587-9
Toggle ORCID item details Territorial Sovereignty: A Discussion Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Journal Article
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- 2020-06-01
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- Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.3167/th.2020.6716304
Toggle ORCID item details Shrinking South Africa: Hidden Agendas in South African Citizenship Practice Politikon Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2019-11-15
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- Politikon
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- Journal Article
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- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2019.1691813
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- 10.1080/02589346.2019.1691813
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- 0258-9346
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- 1470-1014
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- en
Toggle ORCID item details Shrinking South Africa: Hidden Agendas in South African Citizenship Practice Politikon Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2020-04-02
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- Politikon
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- Journal Article
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- https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2019.1691813
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- 10.1080/02589346.2019.1691813
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- @article{Hobden_2019, doi = {10.1080/02589346.2019.1691813}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080%2F02589346.2019.1691813}, year = 2019, month = {nov}, publisher = {Informa {UK} Limited}, pages = {1--17}, author = {Christine Hobden}, title = {Shrinking South Africa: Hidden Agendas in South African Citizenship Practice}, journal = {Politikon} }
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Toggle ORCID item details Unequal Political Engagement and the Possible Risks to Democracy Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Journal Article
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- 2018-09
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- Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
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- Journal Article
Toggle ORCID item details Global justice, states, and the relational view Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2017-11-04
- Journal title
- Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
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- Journal Article
Toggle ORCID item details Taking up the slack: The duties of source state citizens in the brain drain crisis South African Journal of Philosophy Journal Article
- Publication date
- 2017-01
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- South African Journal of Philosophy
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- Journal Article
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Toggle ORCID item details issn:0022-3816 2022 Review
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- 2022
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