Members of the Forum on Decentering the Human have expertise from across the fields of humanities and social sciences, including law, geography, politics, and film studies, to ensure a truly interdisciplinary approach to this area of scholarship.
Professor of Inhuman GeographyEmail: k.yusoff@qmul.ac.ukTelephone: +44 (0)20 7882 8922Room Number: Geography Building, Room 110
Kathryn’s work is centred on dynamic earth events such as abrupt climate change, biodiversity loss and extinction. She is interested in how these “earth revolutions” impact social thought. Broadly, her work has focused on political aesthetics, social theory and abrupt environmental change. Her current research addresses questions of ‘Geologic Life’ within the proposed geologic epoch of the Anthropocene. This research examines how inhuman and nonorganic dimensions of life have consequences for how we understand issues of fossil fuels, human-earth relations and materiality in the politics of life. Kathryn’s work draws on insights from contemporary feminist philosophy, critical human geography and the earth sciences. She is particularly interested in the opportunities the Anthropocene presents for rethinking the interactions between the earth sciences and human geography in the “geo-social formations” of Anthropogenic change.
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Senior Lecturer in LawEmail: j.adenitire@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: School of Law, Mile End
Dr John Adenitire is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law and a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to joining Queen Mary, he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law and Fitzwilliam College. He is currently working on a book project on non-human animals in constitutional law and theory. More general research interests lie in the fields of public law, legal theory, comparative public law, and law and religion.
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Lecturer in Law and IHSS FellowEmail: a.alvareznakagawa@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: Laws, Mile EndTwitter: @AlvarezNakagawa
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa is a Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen Mary University of London. Dr Alvarez-Nakagawa’s research interests span from the globalisation of Western legal forms to the examination of new trends in the field of human rights law, such as the recent extension of legal personhood and rights to non-human beings. His work brings together insights from philosophy, critical legal theory, anthropology and political ontology to explore these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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PhD candidate, Law SchoolEmail: yijia.liu@qmul.ac.uk
Yijia Liu is a third-year PhD candidate at Law School, Queen Mary University of London. She obtained her master's degree in international law from Peking University and the University of Amsterdam. Her PhD project focuses on international child abduction, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective that includes children’s rights, feminism, and the inequalities inherent in international law. She has a broad interest in feminism and critical theories of international law.
Our members include academics from all the departments in the humanities and social sciences at Queen Mary.
The Forum has members external to Queen Mary who actively contribute to the activities of the Forum. Should you wish to join as an associate member, please contact the co-directors.