Oppression, Solidarity, Resistance

Maša Mrovlje is currently examining the political potential of disappointment within the modern revolutionary tradition of political thought. The project explores how an engagement with past disappointments can help us confront the challenges involved in resisting oppression and reanimate resistance in the present era of disillusion. In addition to existential, Marxist and postcolonial theoretical sources, it draws on practical insights from the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.

This collaborative project - undertaken by Maša Mrovlje and Jennet Kirkpatrick - seeks to foreground women’s experiences of resistance that have been neglected in dominant theories of resistance. We seek to contest a masculine imaginary that continues to take shape in a variety of forms of resistance, from armed liberation struggle, to theories of the strike and civil disobedience.

Thijs Keulen's research project explores theories and practices of workplace and economic democracy as ways of expanding our democratic imaginary and repertoire beyond that of representative government, and for their potential to address intertwined social and political crises.

Thijs Keulen has also been exploring the relationship between work and political emotion in democratic society, particularly the emotion of resentment.

Tanay Gandhi's work focuses on the connections across two aesthetic-political problematics in postcolonial India: unruliness as a genre of radical democratic politics, and - through such genre - the evocation of a distinctly Indian vernacular of the politics of refusal.