I am a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy.
My doctoral thesis sets out a critical phenomenology of othering (the construction of subjects as other) by bringing key aspects of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment – particularly, the body schema, body image, and habituation – into conversation with first-person accounts of racialized, gendered, and ableized otherness and othering. In the dissertation, I present othering as both the exercising and effects of a particular kind of perceptual and interpretative practice that operates through (at least) four dimensions, namely spatiality, pathologisat…
I am a PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy.
My doctoral thesis sets out a critical phenomenology of othering (the construction of subjects as other) by bringing key aspects of Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment – particularly, the body schema, body image, and habituation – into conversation with first-person accounts of racialized, gendered, and ableized otherness and othering. In the dissertation, I present othering as both the exercising and effects of a particular kind of perceptual and interpretative practice that operates through (at least) four dimensions, namely spatiality, pathologisation, humiliation, and hyper- and invisibilisation.
Beyond my thesis, I am interested in the application of 20th-century European philosophy to contemporary social philosophy, particularly the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, with my main areas of interest being the philosophy of disability, the emergence and normative force of social norms, and hermeneutic injustice and labour.
