Evelien Geerts

University of Birmingham · School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Departing from the (post-)Anthropocenic crisis state of today’s world, fuelled by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, various post-truth populist follies, and an apocalyptic WW3-scenario that has been hanging in the air since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, this article argues for the possibility – and necessity – of an affirmative posthumanist-materialis...

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https://theconversation.com/jurgen-conings-the-case-of-a-belgian-soldier-on-the-run-shows-how-the-pandemic-collides-with-far-right-extremism-162365

Fascism, according to the Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective and new materialist viewpoints, can be conceived of in terms of desire. In mediating desire’s pure flows, the schizoanalytical programme attempts to bypass what Deleuze calls ‘the strange detour of the other’ (B, 356). In this respect, concepts developed in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s...

This article reviews the debate on ‘intersectionality’ as the dominant approach in gender studies, with an emphasis on the politics of representation. The debate on intersectionality officially began in the late 1980s, though the approach can be traced back to the institutionalization of women's studies in the 1970s and the feminist movement of the...

This special issue of Gender and Education aims to explore the entangled relations of/between feminisms and the 'posts', and interrogates what these relations offer for rethinking gender and education research, theory, pedagogic practice, activism and praxis. https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/gender-education-feminisms/?utm_source...

Infusing contemporary critical terrorism studies (CTS) with concepts and methodologies from philosophy and critical theory via a Baradian posthumanist agential realist perspective and (counter)terrorist cases and vignettes, this chapter argues for a retheorisation of (counter)terrorism. It does so, firstly, by reconceptualising terrorism and counte...

Geheel in lijn met de rest van Europa-denk bijvoorbeeld aan de toegenomen populariteit van de radicaal-rechtse Zweden-Democraten (Sverigedemokraterna) en de verkiezing van de eerste naoorlogse radicaal-rechtse premier van Italië, Giorgia Meloni-maakt postpandemisch België een politieke draai naar (radicaal) rechts. Deze wending is vooral merkbaar...

If you are interested in contributing, please send your abstract to the special issue editors before October 31st, 2022 (for more info, see the call for papers itself) ---------------------------- A growing number of philosophical studies are arguing for new frameworks from which to theorise and grapple with contemporary forms of violence that es...

During the past two decades or so, the emergence and ever-accelerating development of digital media have sparked scholarly interest, debates, and complex challenges across many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Within this diverse scholarship, the research on digitality, gender, sexuality, and embodiment has contributed substan...

Gender, sexuality and embodiment in digital spheres have been increasingly studied from various critical perspectives: From research highlighting the articulation of intimacies, desires, and sexualities in and through digital spaces to theoretical explorations of materiality in the digital realm. With such a high level of (inter)disciplinarity, the...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has made explicit what many of us already knew and some of us are constantly made to feel: good health and the abilities of our bodies & minds1 are fluid and uncertain. We can only ever hold them precariously (Butler, 2004; Scully, 2014). In the end, we are all vulnerable beings. And, yet, vulnerability, perhaps especi...

The call for a reinvigoration of critical theory has never sounded louder than during the COVID-19 pandemic: now that the disposability of all things material—starting with those racialized-sexualized-gendered embodied beings that have been made to not matter—has become clearer than ever, anthropocentrism-transcending post-philosophical frameworks...

Finishing this essay exactly one year after the official arrival of the SARS-COV-2 virus in Belgium and the Netherlands—where the cartographers of this essay are currently located—it is safe to say that the COVID-19 pandemic has immensely impacted our day-to-day lives. The pandemic has not only forced us to question various taken-for-granted existe...

The keynotes and book presentations are open to the public. You can find the registration link & more details here: https://blog.bham.ac.uk/urbterr/upcoming-conferences-seminars-and-events/ (Im)materialities of Violence (25-27 November 2021, University of Birmingham, UK) is an interdisciplinary series of digital research events dedicated to addres...

Longread in Dutch. Kif Kif 2021

Lecture given in Dutch on the COVID-19 pandemic & the new materialist perspectives of Haraway and Braidotti - August 202, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (NL)

This philosophical session on new materialisms-driven critical cartographies starts with a collective reflection on the importance of situated knowledge production. By situating ourselves as researchers-practitioners via Donna J. Haraway’s (1988) situated knowledges paradigm and Karen Barad’s (2007) diffractive theorizing, we examine how the method...

This longread, written in Dutch, re-spotlights the Conings case and Belgian pandemic politics, but does so by zooming in on the Flemish extreme right, processes of terrorist and extremist (non)-labeling, and some of the conspiracy theories that were circulating right after the announcement of Conings’ death. Kif Kif 2021: https://kifkif.be/cnt/art...

Article in Dutch; presents a critical cartography of new materialist thought, including speculative realism, OOO, critical new materialisms, ... Wijsgerig Perspectief: https://www.filosofie.nl/nieuw-materialisme-een-cartografie/

Recent new materialist and posthumanist research in curriculum and pedagogy studies is focusing more and more on the intertwinement between social justice, fairness, and accountability, and how to put these ideals to use to create inclusive, consciousness-raising canons, curricula, and pedagogies that take the dehumanized and the more-than-human in...

Call for papers — Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies/Journal of Gender Studies Special Issue: Dis/abling Gender Deadline abstracts: 1st of May 2021. For more information, see the PDF.

https://posthumanities.net/2021/03/03/more-than-human-conversations-blog-series-dr-evelien-geerts-on-the-more-than-human-materializations-of-violence-remembrance-and-times-of-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR00EaqhTRjxxU1T1YyYsdwYiU69YvRJfOOKA4EAzYiBCCql131qtCxqexE

This intra-view explores a number of productive junctions between contemporary Deleuzoguattarian and new materialist praxes via a series of questions and provocations. Productive tensions are explored via questions of epistemological, ontological, ethical, and political intra-sections as well as notions of difference, transversal contamination, eco...

This special issue of JDSR has two goals. First, it aims to bring together innovative and newly developed theoretical, empirical, analytical, and critical approaches in the study of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres. Second, by connecting intersectionality and digitality, we aim to adopt an integrated approach that reflects the i...

The special issue has now been published: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/matter/issue/view/2374

This dissertation, located at the crossroads of Continental political philosophy, feminist theory, critical theory, intellectual history, and cultural studies, provides a critical cartography of contemporary new materialist thought in its various constellations and assemblages, while using diffractive theorizing to examine two Continental terror(is...

This chapter touches upon the damaging impact of neoliberal reason on institutions of higher education, and my efforts as a teacher to help turn things around by re-vitalizing the classroom. After a critique of current neoliberal ‘borderline times’, the chapter takes the reader on a journey of diffractive re-imaginings in which I share some of my e...

This written version of various conversations came into being as a response to Dutch entertainer Claudia de Breij’s 2016 New Year’s Eve cabaret performance. We were enticed to write something about this performance because of the numerous ambiguities that were present in it. What was striking was the fact that we, a group of Dutch and Belgian acade...

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During the summer of 2016, Kif Kif, a local Belgian antiracist movement, organised the first Gender & Super-diversity summer school with support from the Belgian feminist group Vrouwen Overleg Komitee (now Furia) and ella ‐ the Belgian non-profit knowledge centre for gender and ethnicity. This interview with the summer school’s initiator, Evelien G...

Keywords: feminisme, Vlaanderen, verbeelding, post-feminisme, beschavingsstrijd, reddingsverhalen

ANCIENT NOTIONS OF GENDER IDENTITY - Holmes (B.) Gender. Antiquity and its Legacy. Pp. 213. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2012. Paper, £12.99 (Cased, £35). ISBN: 978-1-84511-929-4 (978-1-84511-928-7 hbk). - Volume 64 Issue 1 - Evelien Geerts