Joe Hoover is a Reader in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. His research is informed by philosophical pragmatism and agonistic pluralism, focussing on human rights, urban politics, democracy, and justice. It attends to how philosophical reflection grounded in everyday political experience can assist in addressing pressing social problems, to develop ways of doing political theory that is engaged with practical political action. He is the author of Reconstructing Human Rights: A Pragmatist and Pluralist Inquiry in Global Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016).