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The criminal is political
Popular illegalities and shameless solidarities
Across the political spectrum, ‘criminal’ is used as a slur. Insofar as a person is deemed criminal, they are assumed to lack political consciousness and motivation for their actions. My research examines how this derogatory concept of the criminal operates ideologically to exclude important forms of dissent from being recognised as political contestation. Moreover, I argue that some kinds of conflict with the law have the potential to manifest and forge resistant subjectivities, which can challenge the oppressive social orders - including hierarchies of race, class, gender, disability, species, and sexuality - that policing upholds.
I am delighted to have been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to complete my monograph, The Criminal Is Political: Popular Illegalities and Shameless Solidarities (Minnesota University Press). The first to make a rigorous philosophical case against the equation of criminality with wrongdoing, it demands a profound reorientation of political thought to attend to the perspectives of the criminalised.
Criminal Intimacies: Love as an abolitionist practice
With CHRIS ROSSDALE. Part of a collective book project we are co-editing with members of the Criminalisation of Dissent Research Network.
Our chapter looks at love and intimacy as sites of struggle: how ‘dangerous’ intimacies are criminalised; how policing can operate through, and in the name of, love; and how queer practices of love and intimacy can challenge carceral capitalist normality.
Resisting Criminalisation: Tactics of Repression, Tactics of Struggle is under contract with Bristol University Press. Editorial collective: Koshka Duff, Chris Rossdale, Federica Rossi, Elian Weizman, Valeria Vegh Weis.
Unifying Against Oppression: The Radical Republicanism of Dara Bascara (1983-2021)
With ROWENA AZADA-PALACIOS, NOEMI MAGNANI & ADAM FERNER. A Special Issue of the journal Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, that celebrates and critically engages with our friend Dara’s important contributions to theorising and resisting oppression.
The special issue comes out of a symposium on organised in 2021 by the Nottingham Centre for Social Philosophy.
Intimacies Outside the Institutions: Polyamory, relationship anarchy, and the end of the normative family
I was delighted to be asked to write this chapter for Teresa Baron’s Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and the Family. My contribution focuses on polyamorous families, and polyamorous challenges to the normative concept of family.
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