Tom Malleson

Tom Malleson (1982-) was born in London, England, and grew up in Canada. He received his PhD in Political Theory and Political Economy from the University of Toronto in 2012. He is currently Assistant Professor in the Social Justice and Peace Studies program at King’s University College at Western University.

His research interests are interdisciplinary, crisscrossing contemporary political theory, feminist theory, political economy, philosophy, and sociology. One strand of research revolves around the study of Real Utopias, which are institutions designed to be both normatively emancipatory and empirically grounded. His interests in this area include economic democracy, the solidarity economy, basic income, participatory budgeting, carbon taxes, universal caregiving, and so on. Another strand of research focuses on contemporary debates over distributive justice, with interest in questions of egalitarianism, economic desert, autonomy, time sovereignty, and the culture of consumerism.

Tom is also a longtime anti-authoritarian social justice activist and organizer, and has been active for over ten years with migrant justice, anti-poverty, global justice, anti-war, and solidarity economy groups.