Faculty Member, Politics
Lecturer in International Politics
About
I'm a Lecturer in International Politics at the Department of Politics, The University of Manchester. Prior to Manchester I have completed my PhD at Aberystwyth University (2011, funded by ESRC +3 and Aberystwyth Postgraduate Research Studentship) with a thesis entitled ‘Politics beyond Oedipus: alternative ontology of subject and law and the study of world politics’.
I also holds a MScEcon in International Relations Theory also from Aberystwyth (2007), and a Diploma in International Relations and a Diploma in Political Theory and Analysis, both from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (2006).
I have taken part at a number of international conferences in the UK, Europe and the USA; organised a number of conferences and workshops; between 2008 – 2011 have also been a convener of CRIPT – British International Studies Association working group on Contemporary Research in International Political Theory.
My research:
I am a committed interdisciplinary scholar; my main areas of research expertise fall in the intersection of political terrorism/violence, political philosophy with critical theory and law. More particularly her research focuses on continental and political philosophy (and notions of political subjectivity, sovereignty, community and human rights)s and their application to global issues, most notably the study of security discourse, terrorism and resistance.
In terms of security and terrorism I specialised in the study of international and domestic terror and anti-terror legislation, its implications on human rights; in terms of resistance and political violence, I focus on the limits of legal and political actions in various political situations, the possibility of resistance and the how resistance frames and creates particular political actors.
My doctoral research explored alternative ideas of being and law in the context of the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay and the legal discourses that frame military and civilian legal proceedings and human rights abuses. In terms of theoretical contributions and commitments, my research is (1) an implicit post-structural and postmodern critique of liberal understanding of a legal subject, law and human rights; and (2) an attempt to challenge the ontology of international relations by disrupting the binary divisions, such as the divisions between the scientific discourse and ‘personal’ discourse, subject and object, agency and structure, and human and non-human existence.
My future research include a further investigation into Guantanamo detention centre by focusing on human rights, law and life; and a project entitled 'The world in becoming' where the aim is to discuss a new political and economic space by rethinking the idea of 'the common' and the idea of 'labour'.
I also works on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Marxist theory, films, novels and new postmodern methods and methodologies.
