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I am a Post-doctoral Researcher in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPEE). I also work with the Wellbeing State Network. My work reconceptualises the politics of resistance by rethinking property ownership across a range of traditions. I am interested in how proprietary relationships – the dynamic between ontology/subjectivity and forms of appropriation – work in tandem to legitimise inequality, precarity, dispossession, exploitation, and other forms of violence. I contend that colonial incursions, projects of racialisation, gendered violence, ethno-nationalisms, wage theft, financial extractivism, and ecological breakdown are overdetermined, but related forms of oppression. My work is invested in a wide range of scholarship in critical theory, Black Studies, the Black radical tradition, Indigenous scholarship, decolonial legal theory, feminist philosophy, deconstruction, and post-Marxism.
I am currently turning my doctoral thesis into a book for publication. My doctoral thesis rethinks property, deconstruction, the commons, democracy, and Black radicalism in novel ways to theorise how political resistance disrupts and remakes proprietary ownership and the inequality these engender. In doing so, I understand political resistance contra traditional political theories which fall broadly into two camps: demanding a response from power (populist politics, mass movements, democratic party politics, and so on) or not speaking to power and refusing its authority (forms of fugitivity, revolutionary politics, etc.). I propose there is no proper mode of resistance. Instead, equality is performatively constituted through these very acts of resistance to remake proprietary forms of ownership: be it mass demonstrations, strikes, welfare programmes, the rebellions of enslaved people, occupations, new practices of care, transformative justice programmes, modes of refusal and fugitivity, and beyond. To achieve this, I develop a number of Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive ideas as tools for political theory, rethinking them through the lenses of critical theory, Black Studies, the Black radical tradition, Indigenous scholarship, decolonial legal theory, feminist philosophy, and post-Marxism.
I have published pieces on property, ownership, and deconstruction. I co-founded and was Senior Editor of Interfere Journal. As a Lecturer, I have taught on a variety of courses including democratic theory, democratic politics and movements, philosophy, social inequalities, sociology, criminology, state power, and theories of punishment. Previously, I worked as a Researcher for the University of Brighton on two separate projects: The Politics of Populist Discourse in the UK (2014-2019) and COVID-19: The History of Immunity and Autoimmunity in Political Theory. My Master’s thesis investigated possession, ownership, and political subjectivity in the work of Judith Butler. My undergraduate thesis researched the performativity of subjectivity and identity in women’s football.
Master, Cultural and Critical Theory, University of Brighton
Award Date: 1 Dec 2017
Bachelor, Sport and Leisure Management, University of Brighton
Award Date: 1 Jul 2013
Research Assistant, University of Brighton
1 May 2020 → 1 Aug 2020
Lecturer, University of Brighton
1 Oct 2019 → …
PhD Tutor, The Brilliant Club
1 Dec 2018 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book Review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Huegel, V. (Organiser), Lechley-Yuill, H. J. (Organiser) & Condo', J. (Organiser)
Activity: Events › Workshop
Huegel, V. (Chair) & Lechley-Yuill, H. J. (Chair)
Activity: External boards and professional/academic bodies › Personal board membership of professional/academic bodies