Biography

Luca Mavelli is a Lecturer in International Politics. His research focuses on questions of religion, secularity, and post-secularity in international politics and on Middle Eastern politics. Before joining Surrey’s School of Politics, Luca was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex and held teaching positions at the University of Queensland (Australia) and Canterbury (New Zealand).

Publications

 Books
o Europe’s Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular, London: Routledge (Interventions Series), March 2012 

 Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals
o ‘Security and Secularization in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, first published on April 27, 2011 as doi:10.1177/1354066110396592.
o ‘Political Church, Procedural Europe, and the Creation of the Islamic Other’, Journal of Religion in Europe, 1:3, December 2008, pp. 273-301.
o ‘Appropriation and Redemption in Contemporary Western Discourses on Islam in Europe’, St Antony’s International Review, 3:2, 2008, pp. 74-93.

 Edited journal issues

o ‘The Postsecular in International Politics’, Review of International Studies 2012 Special Issue (co-edited with Fabio Petito)

 Book chapters:
o ‘Beyond Secularism: Immanence and Transcendence in the Political Thought of William Connolly’, in Alan Finlayson (ed.), Democracy and Pluralism: The Political Thought of William Connolly, pp. 144-163 (London: Routledge, 2009).