Evelien Geerts

Evelien Geerts
University College Cork | UCC · Department of Philosophy

PhD Humanities; BA & MA Philosophy; RMA Gender and Ethnicity Studies; MSc Global Management

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Introduction
Evelien Geerts (Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz) is an interdisciplinary philosopher, a Lecturer in Gender, Women’s Studies & Philosophy at University College Cork, and a Posthumanities Hub & Eco- and Bioart Lab researcher (Linköping University). Geerts' research interests include new materialist, posthumanist, and Deleuzoguattarian philosophy, the (post-)Anthropocene, identity, difference, and violence, and critical pedagogies. See https://linktr.ee/egeerts for more information & publications.
Additional affiliations
August 2017 - March 2022
Utrecht University
Position
  • Visiting Researcher
September 2015 - April 2017
University of California, Santa Cruz
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  • TA & Lecturer
September 2017 - September 2018
Utrecht University
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  • PA
Education
September 2014 - December 2019
University of California, Santa Cruz
Field of study
  • Feminist Studies & History of Consciousness
September 2013 - July 2014
Antwerp Management School
Field of study
  • Global Management Studies (including consultancy internship)
September 2011 - January 2012
University of California, Los Angeles
Field of study
  • Women's Studies (exchange program)

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Publications (57)
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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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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...
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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...
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Currently the subject of polarising debates and political instrumentalisation, identity politics – together with how it is entangled with identity as a lived but also theorisable experience consisting of discursive, material, and affective dimensions – is rightfully regarded as a complex phenomenon. This chapter unpacks some of this complexity by m...
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Beginnings of a sort: beginnings and/as ongoings For feminists, working in/with the ‘posts’ is, always has been, and must be, a collective and collaborative endeavour. Increasingly, post-inquiry involves taking seriously multiplicities of humans, nonhumans, more-than-and-other-than-humans, multispecies and naturecul�ture entities, including viral,...
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By bringing feminist science studies scholar Donna J. Haraway's A manifesto for cyborgs (1985) and Situated knowledges (1988) in line with contemporary critical new materialist thought (see Colman & Van der Tuin, 2024; Dolphijn & Van der Tuin, 2012; Geerts, 2022), this critical pedagogical and philosophical think piece tackles the problematic of An...
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This essay consists of a set of digital (post-)pandemic email correspondence held between a political sociologist and an interdisciplinary philosopher working at western European universities while the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly unfolded itself. Starting from an unsettling point in time in 2021, during which vaccination strategies and numerous eugen...
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Violence takes many forms, as the editors and authors in this double special issue on the somatechnics of violence also argue.1 Forming the second instalment of a project that wishes to rethink and update philosophical and critical theoretical conceptualisations of violence, this particular issue starts with some topological and cartographical refl...
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Our current era of crisis and neo-fascist revanches (see Lawtoo 2019) is rife with desires-driven mimesis, and more specifically, mimetic resentment or conflictual copycat behaviour. Traditionally conceptualised in relation to ressentiment, mimetic resentment (see Nietzsche [1887]2006; Girard [1961]1965, [1977]1992, and [1978]1987) is seldom analys...
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A growing number of philosophical and critical theoretical studies are arguing for new frameworks from which to theorise and grapple with contemporary forms of violence that escape the overdetermined representations thereof that ensued in the decade or so following the terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11 – which Jeffrey Di Leo and Uppind...
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This strong collaboration-rooted essay experiments with a so-called irruptive methodology to weave together the authors’ (post-)pandemic critical pedagogical experiences and praxes from within the contemporary neoliberal higher educational landscape. These experiences and praxes are mixed with irruptive philosophical snippets, conceptual passages,...
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This chapter discusses the lives and deaths of some of the forgotten victims of far-right violence in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; West Germany). Specific focus will be on three brutal killings committed by the German neo-Nazi terror group Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (National Socialist Underground; NSU) in 2000 and 2001, which were...
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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 v...
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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, historica...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lecture given in Dutch on the COVID-19 pandemic & the new materialist perspectives of Haraway and Braidotti - August 202, Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (NL)
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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...
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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...
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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/
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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The special issue has now been published: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/matter/issue/view/2374
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Keywords: feminisme, Vlaanderen, verbeelding, post-feminisme, beschavingsstrijd, reddingsverhalen
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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

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