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15In this paper, I tried to analyze a couple of Kristeva's ideas and concepts. I tried to engage myself in the debate on whether Kristeva's semiotic politics could be seen as subversive enough to be feminist. I have claimed that some of her basic concepts can be read in a feminist manner, nonetheless Kristeva's oeuvre is packed with all sorts of ambiguities and ambivalences, which makes it hard to define her position towards feminism. At the end of this paper, I also try to supplement Irigaray's c…Read more
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14In this paper, I evaluate Elizabeth Grosz's corporeal feminism and ontology of sexual difference(s) by moving through her Derridean and Irigarayian conceptual heritage.
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13In this paper, I tried to sketch out Luce Irigaray's ambiguous relationship with the tradition of western psychoanalysis. I evaluated her critiques on Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and defended the idea that she succeeds at transcending the many feminist evils of psychoanalysis as a tradition, by feminizing the psychoanalytical practice.
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9A Feminist Cartography of Critical New Materialist PhilosophiesIn Felicity Colman & Iris van der Tuin (eds.), Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 78-104. 2024.In ‘Situated Knowledges’, feminist science studies scholar – and, as will be argued in this chapter, critical new materialisms scene-setter – Donna Haraway (1988) reveals her own politicised ‘electroshock’ (578) therapeutic take on epistemology and what it means to create knowledge from the ground up. She builds her argument upon Marxist, historical and feminist materialisms, the rich tradition of feminist epistemology and, above all, Sandra Harding’s (1986, 1987, 1991) standpoint theory. Connec…Read more
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9In this paper, two theories of feminist liberalism (Okin and Nussbaum) are evaluated from a multicultural-feminist perspective. This paper argues that Ayelet Shachar's multicultural feminism offers us a better theoretical philosophical model to cope with gender and multicultural issues than feminist comprehensive liberalism and political liberalism do.
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9Curated Panel: ‘Genealogies and Apparatuses of New Materialist Production’In Felicity Colman & Iris van der Tuin (eds.), Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 105-136. 2024.This particular roundtable falls at the end of a four-year networking project (COST Action IS1307 New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matter’) and reflects upon the genealogies of new materialism and how these flow into the individual working practices of participants. The texts below were contributed remotely via email by members of the group, following face-to-face meetings in Barcelona, Maribor, Warsaw, Liverpool, Paris and Utrecht. Authors were unaware of…Read more
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Neoliberal and (post-)pandemic irruptions : reconceptualising critical pedagogies for more-than-human crisis timesIn Jessie Bustillos Morales & Shiva Zarabadi (eds.), Towards posthumanism in education: theoretical entanglements and pedagogical mappings, Routledge. 2024.
Evelien Geerts
University of Birmingham
Posthumanities Hub
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Posthumanities HubVisiting scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD, 2019
Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Critical Theory |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Feminist Philosophy |