The over-arching objective of Derek Hook's research is to develop an 'analytics of power' sufficiently able to grapple with the unconscious and psychological dimensions of ideological subjectivity. His recent work has taken up a series of psychoanalytic conceptualizations (the dreamwork; the 'real' of embodiment; the stereotype-as-fetish; and the 'ideological uncanny') and experimented with their usefulness within a Foucauldian register of 'technologies of subjectivity'. Recent articles include: 'Affecting whiteness'; 'Postcolonial psychoanalysis'; ''Pre-discursive' racism'; The racial stereotype, colonial discourse, fetishism'; and 'Racializing embodiment and the 'real' of the social subject'.
recent publications
Hook, D. (2008). The 'real' of racializing embodiment.
Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
Hook, D. (2006). 'Pre-discursive' racism. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 16, 207-232.
