About

I am currently working as a PhD student on political activism and public pedagogy.  In this research project, I take political activism and feminist pedagogies of resistance as a departure to rethink the complex, embodied, and educational relations formed in coming together through political activist assemblies. 

To flesh out these embodied, educational and performative aspects of political activism, I will draw on a) Judith Butler’s performative theory of assembly and Sara Ahmed’s politics of emotion and complaint, b) ethnographic and participatory methods such as interviews, participant diaries, auto-photography, visual ethnography, graphic anthropology, sound ethnography, and auto-ethnography, and c) active involvement with the left-wing Maltese organisation Moviment Graffitti. 

By developing new ways of understanding the lived, embodied and emotional experiences of activists in Malta, this research aims to show different ways in which education plays a vital role in the durability of activist communities and the radicalisation of the public.