Evelien Geerts

A Research Fellow (part of the ERC-funded Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence project, University of Birmingham, UK) and a Posthumanities Hub & Eco- and Bioart Lab Affiliated Researcher (Linköping University, SE), Geerts examines political philosophical questions of identity, difference, and violence; environmental philosophical questions surrounding the (post-)Anthropocene and times of crisis; and critical and diffractive pedagogies - and that all through critical posthumanist, new materialist, and Deleuzoguattarian perspectives. Their work has been published in Philosophy Today, Women’s Studies International Forum, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, amongst others, and two monograph projects are currently in development: a project that investigates the implications of reconceptualizing violence as a complex agential realist phenomenon and one combining affect theory, digital post-Humanities, and critical new materialisms to better examine the socio-political impact of alt-right, terrorist, and fascist memes and politics.

Some of the topics Geerts has worked on so far: Posthumanism; philosophy in times of crisis; the (post-)Anthropocene; political violence & (counter)terrorism; (Belgian) far-right & alt-right politics, memes, and framing of gender "ideology" critiques; political (neo-)fascism; the state of gender studies; conceptualizations of identity & identity politics.