About

I am currently working as a PhD student focusing on political activism and public pedagogy. In this research project, I explore political activism and feminist pedagogies of resistance as a foundation 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 organization Moviment Graffitti.  

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