My research focuses on structures of gender, racial and economic inequality. In pursuing these interests, I draw on debates in feminist and critical theory, normative political theory, the history of political thought, and social theory. This multi-methodological approach enables me to articulate theoretically how intersections of gender, race and class reproduce and sustain structures of social oppression that threaten democratic equality.
Research Projects
My book, Connected by Commitment, is an investigation of our responsibilities to dismantle oppression and a criticism of individualist models for understanding these responsibilities. I elaborate a notion of ‘commitment’ to capture the nature of these responsibilities.
I am currently working on two book projects.
One, entitled Structural Agency and Structural Obligations, argues that in the context of structural injustice we should theorize action as itself structural. I emphasize two features of action taken against structures of oppression, which I call its "plural publicity" and its "socially structured" character, and argue that the transformative potential of action depends on these two features, which should be central to our theorizing of action.
The other book project, entitled Race as a social structure. A conception of race as the basis for solidarity for anti-racist collective action, is centered on the question of how to understand solidarity for anti-racist action, given that divisions along class, gender and sexuality challenge notions of shared black interests. I argue, first, that we should understand race as located in social practices, not in individuals or groups, and, second, that we should understand solidarity as forged in action in response to a shared social reality, and I offer a notion of anti-racist solidary actions as responses, from different structural positions, to the same social structure of race.
I am currently working on two book projects.
One, entitled Structural Agency and Structural Obligations, argues that in the context of structural injustice we should theorize action as itself structural. I emphasize two features of action taken against structures of oppression, which I call its "plural publicity" and its "socially structured" character, and argue that the transformative potential of action depends on these two features, which should be central to our theorizing of action.
The other book project, entitled Race as a social structure. A conception of race as the basis for solidarity for anti-racist collective action, is centered on the question of how to understand solidarity for anti-racist action, given that divisions along class, gender and sexuality challenge notions of shared black interests. I argue, first, that we should understand race as located in social practices, not in individuals or groups, and, second, that we should understand solidarity as forged in action in response to a shared social reality, and I offer a notion of anti-racist solidary actions as responses, from different structural positions, to the same social structure of race.