Professor Rodney Barker

Rodney Barker is Emeritus Professor of Government in the LSE Department of Government and Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. Rodney joined the LSE Department of Government in 1971 having gained an MA from Downing College, Cambridge and a PhD from LSE.

Professor Barker has conducted research in many areas, including British politics, civil disobedience, legitimation, modern political ideologies, political identity, enmity, enemies, and political propaganda and rhetoric. He has been widely published, both in academic literature and in the print media, and has written several books, most recently 'Cultivating political and public identity: Why plumage matters'.