Thomas added a paper
Thomas started following the work of Andrew Slack, The University of Manchester, Politics.
Thomas started following the work of Vicky Wakefield-Jarrett, University of Sussex, The School of Global Studies.
Graduate Student, Politics
Thesis Title: Rescuing the Women of Afghanistan: Gender, Agency and the Politics of Intelligibility
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Maja Zehfuss
Cristina Masters |
About
My research focuses on the representation of Afghan women in the justifications for Operation Enduring Freedom. Drawing on the work of Judith Butler, Talal Asad and Gayatri C. Spivak, I argue that Afghan women were denied access to a politically qualified subject position within the prevailing frames of war, reducing them to the status of mere symbols of helplessness devoid of both agency and voice.
More recently, I have turned my attention to the politics of killing in contemporary conflict. Focusing on the problem of civilian casualties in supposedly humanitarian conflicts, I argue that certain lives have been rendered unliveable, leaving their deaths ungrievable.
