All my research uses an intersectional perspective. This means that I look at (1) the interrelatedness of, for instance, gender, race, sexuality, class, age/generation, and dis/ability and neurodiversity. This also means that I look at (2) both disadvantage and privilege and the ways that these interact. Although ‘agency’ is most explicitly present in my ‘intersectional agency’ project (see below), this is central to everything I do.
I am broadly interested in social justice, social inequalities and power relations. I look at marginalisation as well as dominant power structures and normativities. I have an additional interest in qualitative methodology and critical pedagogy, and how to ‘neurodiversify’ these.
Summary of interests:
- power relations & social inequalities: e.g. regarding gender, race, neurodiversity & disability (incl. ADHD, chronic illness, madness), age/generation, sexuality, and juniority-seniority in activism
- social in/justice – specifically (the potential for) social change and conscientisation at the individual, collective and structural level, and questions of accountability and responsibility
- agency, action and inaction
- resistance, activism and social movement organising
- well-being and care (and the lack thereof)
- pedagogy, group facilitation, teaching and learning
- qualitative methodology – specifically phenomenological and adjacent methods
- theory – e.g. intersectional, feminist, race critical and critical whiteness, critical disability, critical ADHD, social movement theory, and generally social theory
- knowledge construction
- epistemological exploration and liberation
Current projects:
- ADHD Women: Resisting a Neuronormative World
- Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought
- Understanding Intersectional Agency: Privilege, disadvantage, and feminist activists in São Paulo, Brazil
- Phenomenological Conversations
- Relaxed Pedagogy (RelaxPed)
Completed project:
For more detailed information, see my CV (although this requires an update…)