Narrative

Research interests:

• The politics of 'life' : political rationality and biological existence; the securitization of biological life; biosecurity and empire; biology and virtuality
• The political life of objects: the place of technoscience in social and political life; cultural geography and materiality
• The animal and the human : the animal in social and political thought; configurations of humans and animals in an age of biosecurity
• Philosophy and geography: humanism and posthumanism; philosophies of corporeality and materiality; concepts of life and nature; ontology; the body in political theory
• Ecopolitics : environmental social movements; nature, environmentalism and difference; colonialism and environmentalism

I am currently reading writers such as Georgio Agamben, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault; Felix Guattari, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri, Paolo Virno, Benedictus de Spinoza, and Isabelle Stengers.

Current supervisions:

I am working with doctoral students working on science, modernity and the nation; sovereignty, territory and conservation; sleep medicine and biopolitics; biotechnology and plant genetic resources; the right to politics of immigrants in Europe; environmental democracy and political theory; the politics of community in Chile; the cultural economy of counterfeit goods; sovereign power and reproductive health; biomimicry and the military.

If you are interested in working with me, please send me a short cv and statement of your research interests.