{{Infobox philosopher | honorific_prefix = | name = Graham M. Smith | native_name = <!-- add name in the philosopher's language or script if different from the English name --> | honorific_suffix = | image = <!-- filename only, i.e. without the File: (or Image:) prefix or enclosing brackets --> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | other_names = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = 1974<!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living persons, {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} for deceased. For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB. --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per WP:INFONAT --> | spouse = | partner = | children = | family = | relatives = | education = Lancaster University (PhD) | alma_mater = | occupation = | notable_works = <!-- use "notable_works" in place of "books" parameter (deprecated) --> | awards = | signature = | signature_size = | signature_alt = | era = | region = | school_tradition = | institutions = University of Leeds, Lancaster University | thesis_title = The fate of 'friendship' in political modernity : being-with-others in the thought of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 2003 | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | language = | main_interests = political theory, friendship, continental political thought, Anglo-American political thought, the subject | notable_ideas = | influences = <!-- only add entries which are explained and cited in the body of the article (or cited here)--> | influenced = <!-- only add entries which are explained and cited in the body of the article (or cited here)--> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> }} '''Graham M. Smith''' (born 1974) is a British political theorist and Associate Professor in Political Theory at the University of Leeds. Smith is known for his research on friendship and its relation to the understanding of the political. He previously taught at Lancaster University and is the co-editor of the online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal ''AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies''.<ref>[https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17937/ Friendship Matters]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amityjournal.leeds.ac.uk/people/ |title=AMITY |access-date=2016-02-09 |archive-date=2015-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117085036/http://amityjournal.leeds.ac.uk/people/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/graham-m-smith Graham M. Smith]</ref><ref>[http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/confronting-secularism-in-europe-and-india-9781474269223/ Confronting Secularism in Europe and India]</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bird |first1=Gemma |title=Book Review: Other Areas: Perfecting Justice in Rawls, Habermas and Honneth: A Deconstructive Perspective |journal=Political Studies Review |date=May 2013 |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=228–229 |doi=10.1111/1478-9302.12016_2|s2cid=220080880 }}</ref>
==Works== * ''Confronting Secularism in Europe and India: Legitimacy and Disenchantment in Contemporary Times'' (co-edited with Brian Black and Gavin Hyman), Bloomsbury (2014). * ''Friendship and the Political: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Schmitt'', Imprint Academic, (2011). * ''Friendship in Politics: Theorizing Amity In and Between States'' (ed. with Preston King), Routledge, (2008). * ‘Friendship, State and Nation’ in ''Friendship and International Relations'', eds. Koschut, S. and Oelsner, A. (2014) * ‘Kierkegaard, Søren’ in ''Encyclopaedia of Political Theory'', ed. Bevir, Mark, Sage, (2010).
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==External links== * [http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/people/staff/smith Graham Smith at the University of Leeds]
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