Michael Keating (born 2 February 1950) is a political scientist specialising in
nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...
,
European politics,
regional politics, and
devolution.
He is Professor of Scottish Politics at the
University of Aberdeen
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and Fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change at the
University of Edinburgh
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.
Early life
Keating was born in
North East England
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to Scottish and Irish parents.
He holds British, Irish, and Canadian citizenships.
Keating holds a BA from the
University of Oxford
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and a PhD from Glasgow College of Technology, now the
Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University ( gd, Oilthigh Chailleannach Ghlaschu, ), informally GCU, Caledonian or Caley, is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen's College, Glasgow (founded in 1875) and G ...
.
Academic career
Keating was previously Professor of Political Science at the
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thames Ri ...
, Canada and between 1979 and 1988, taught at the
University of Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde ( gd, Oilthigh Shrath Chluaidh) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, having received its royal char ...
.
He has been visiting professor in the US, Spain, France, Australia, and England. From 2000 until 2010, he was on
secondment
Secondment is the assignment of a member of one organisation to another organisation for a temporary period.
Job rotation
The employee typically retains their salary and other employment rights from their primary organization but they work close ...
from Aberdeen as Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the
European University Institute
The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contribu ...
, Florence, where he was head of the department between 2004 and 2007.
He is author of eighteen books and editor of another eighteen, as well as numerous academic articles and chapters. His publications include ''Nations Against the State: The New Politics of Nationalism in Quebec, Catalonia and Scotland'' (Macmillan, 1996), ''Plurinational Democracy: Stateless Nations in a Post-Sovereignty Era'' (Oxford University Press, 2001), ''The Government of Scotland: Public Policy Making after Devolution'' (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), ''The Independence of Scotland'' (Oxford University Press, 2009), ''Rescaling the European State'' (Oxford University Press, 2013), ''Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences'' (edited with
Donatella della Porta – Cambridge University Press, 2008), and ''Debating Scotland'' (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Awards and honours
Keating is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...
,
Fellow of the
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...
, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, and Member of the European Academy.
References
External links
profileat University of Aberdeen
profileat the Centre on Constitutional Change
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1950 births
British political scientists
Canadian political scientists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Irish political scientists
Living people
Scholars of nationalism
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
University of Western Ontario faculty
Alumni of Glasgow Caledonian University
Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford
European University Institute faculty
Fellows of the British Academy