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My research focuses on feminist group politics and the politicization of lived experiences of sexual violence.
My research focuses on feminist group politics and the politicization of lived experiences of sexual violence. In particular, my PhD project focused on theorizing a cross-experiential hermeneutics which offers a method for engaging lived experience in a collective practice of social critique which I argue to be crucial to a survivor-led anti-rape solidarity politics. My postdoctoral research is interested in theorizing a normative anchor for the cross-experiential hermeneutics previously elaborated in my PhD through the concept of nonsubstitutability. I argue that this normative perspective can ground a transnational anti-rape feminist solidarity politics.
Speaking Rape: Engaging Experience for a Feminist Practice of Rape Survivorship
In my thesis, I advance a feminist cross-experiential social practice of rape survivorship that engages survivors’ personal experiences to reveal the plural meanings, forms, and configurative power relations invested in rape. I argue that no two experiences are ever reducible, symmetrical, or substitutable, yet this mutual irreducibility animates, rather than limits, cross-experiential practice. This hermeneutic practice compels participants to understand themselves in relation to others, exposing asymmetrical relations between subjects. Through this process, the irreducibility of experience becomes both a critique of power and a site of relational self-reflexivity, grounding a radically inclusive feminist collective of rape survivorship.
Research
- Feminist Theory
- Continental Philosophy
- Critical Theory
- Gender Theory
- Sexual Violence and Gender-based Violence
Teaching
- GV100 Introduction to Political Theory (London School of Economics)
- IR130 War, Power and Morality: Divisive Debates and Contentious Conflicts (London School of Economics)
- 5SSPP294 Twentieth Century Political Philosophy (King’s College London)
- Feminist Political Theory (Sciences Po Paris)
- The Concept of Alienation (Sciences Po Paris)
- The ABCs of Politics (Sciences Po Paris)