Dr Evelien Geerts PhD

Dr Evelien Geerts

Department of Modern Languages
Postdoctoral researcher

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Evelien Geerts is a postdoctoral researcher and part of the UrbTerr project team, led by Dr Katharina Karcher. As a multidisciplinary philosopher, she has a keen interest in critical epistemologies, political philosophy, and new materialisms.

Qualifications

  • 2019 – PhD – University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)
  • 2014 – MSc Global Management Studies – Antwerp Management School (Belgium)
  • 2012 – research MA in Gender and Ethnicity Studies – Utrecht University (the Netherlands)
  • 2010 – MA in Philosophy – Antwerp University (Belgium)
  • 2009 – BA in Philosophy – Antwerp University (Belgium)

Biography

Dr. Evelien Geerts (she/they) is a multidisciplinary philosopher (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) with a passion for political philosophy, critical theory, and critical pedagogies.

A Research Fellow (part of the ERC-funded Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence project, University of Birmingham, UK) and a Posthumanities Hub Affiliated Researcher (Linköping University, SE), Geerts examines political philosophical questions of identity, difference, and violence, and that through critical posthumanist, new materialist, and Deleuzoguattarian perspectives. Their work has been published in Philosophy TodayWomen’s Studies International ForumRhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, amongst others, and two monograph projects are currently in development: a project that investigates the implications of reconceptualizing violence as a complex agential realist phenomenon and one combining affect theory, digital post-Humanities, and critical new materialisms to better examine the socio-political impact of alt-right, terrorist, and fascist memes.

In addition to possessing plenty of managerial expertise (organizer of summer schools, such as the Kif Kif Gender & Superdiversity summer school; expert seminars; workshops; …) and editorial skills (editorial board member & editor of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; former editorial board member & editor of Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (2015-2020); (co-)editor of several special journal issues of SomatechnicsJournal of Digital Social ResearchTijdschrift voor Genderstudies, and Matter; …), Geerts is also committed to critical pedagogies-based teaching and the much-needed praxis of public philosophy.

For more information, download Geerts’ academic curriculum or check out their Linktree page

Research

Geerts' research interests include new materialist, posthumanist, and Deleuzoguattarian philosophy, the (post-)Anthropocene, political philosophical questions of identity, difference, and violence, and critical and diffractive pedagogies. 

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Rahbari, L & Geerts, E 2023, '(Post-)pandemic Somatechnics, Neoliberalism, and the Return to (Academic) Normalcy: Digital Conversations', Somatechnics: Journal of Bodies – Technologies – Power .

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Geerts, E 2024, A Feminist Cartography of Critical New Materialist Philosophies. in F Colman & I van der Tuin (eds), Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms. 1 edn, New Materialisms, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 78-104. <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-methods-and-genealogies-of-new-materialisms.html>

Geerts, E 2024, A Feminist Critical Cartography of New Materialisms. in F Colman & I van der Tuin (eds), Methods and genealogies of new materialisms. New Materialisms, Edinburgh University Press. <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-methods-and-genealogies-of-new-materialisms.html>

Hoel, A, Skinner, S, Djuric, J, Gauthier, D, Geerts, E, Sauzet, S & Tamboukou, M 2024, Curated Panel: ‘Genealogies and Apparatuses of New Materialist Production’. in F Colman & I van der Tuin (eds), Methods and Genealogies of New Materialisms. 1 edn, New Materialisms, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 105-135. <https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-methods-and-genealogies-of-new-materialisms.html>

Geerts, E & Carstens, D 2024, Neoliberal and (Post-)Pandemic Irruptions: Reconceptualising Critical Pedagogies for More-than-Human Crisis Times. in JA Bustillos Morales & S Zarabadi (eds), Towards Posthumanism in Education: Theoretical Entanglements and Pedagogical Mappings. Routledge New and Critical Studies in Education, Routledge, pp. 101-.

Chapter

Geerts, E 2023, Cultivating ‘Knowing in Being’ – Feminist ‘Thinking-Doings': “Cultivating ‘Knowing in Being’—Feminist ‘Thinking–Doings’”: Response to Dragana Lukić and Lilli Mittner. in E Just, M Uden, V Weetzel & C Åsberg (eds), Voices from Gender Studies: Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity. 1st edn, Routledge, pp. 141-146. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003358794-15

Geerts, E, Karcher, K, Dimcheva, Y & Toribio Medina, M 2023, European urban (counter-)terrorism’s spacetimematterings: More-than-human materialisations in situationscaping times. in A Martini & R da Silva (eds), Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies. 1st edn, Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies, Routledge, pp. 31-52. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003266709-4

Geerts, E 2022, A Critical Cartography of the Materialisations of Identity (Politics): Intersectional & Interferential Explorations. in M Tiainen, T Mehrabi, T Leppänen & K-K Kontturi (eds), Making Middles Matter. Routledge.

Geerts, E 2022, Feminist Pedagogies. in M-P Moreau (ed.), Education and Social Justice Encyclopedia: Gender and Sexuality. Bloomsbury.

Editorial

Geerts, E, Hoegaerts, J, Hens, K & Blackie, D 2022, 'Editorial: Dis/abling gender in crisis times', Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVGN2022.1.001.GEER

Geerts, E, Rahbari, L & De Vuyst, S 2022, 'Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres: Connecting Intersectionality and Digitality', Journal of Digital Social Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v4i3.150

Other contribution

Geerts, E 2023, Postpandemisch extremisme in Vlaanderen: de nasleep van de zaak Conings. Kif Kif. <https://kifkif.be/cnt/artikel/postpandemisch-extremisme-vlaanderen-de-nasleep-van-de-zaak-conings-16128?fbclid=IwAR0SabUZTWeOWOh6IqDLGBlU_Gmly41ryv3fsrjWxT3T1o2ovvHwRkzMb8g>

Geerts, E 2023, The Conings case and its aftermath: Post-pandemic extremism still on the rise in Flanders. Medium. <https://medium.com/kif-kif-english/the-conings-case-and-its-aftermath-post-pandemic-extremism-still-on-the-rise-in-flanders-ab9677a60db2>

Special issue

Geerts, E, Hoegaerts, J, Hens, K & University, H (eds) 2022, 'Dis/abling Gender', Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, vol. 25, no. 1.

Geerts, E (Guest ed.), Rahbari, L (Guest ed.) & De Vuyst, S (Guest ed.) 2022, 'Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres: Connecting Intersectionality and Digitality', Journal of Digital Social Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1-106. <https://jdsr.se/ojs/index.php/jdsr/issue/view/11>

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