Dr Evelien Geerts PhD

Dr Evelien Geerts

Department of Modern Languages
Postdoctoral researcher

Contact details

Email
e.m.l.geerts@bham.ac.uk
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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 Today, Women’s Studies International Forum, Rhizomes: 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 Somatechnics, Journal of Digital Social Research, Tijdschrift 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

Geerts, E, Rahbari, L, De Vuyst, S, Evolvi, G & Zarabadi, S 2022, 'Intersectionality, Hybridity, and (Inter)disciplinary Research on Digitality: a conversation among scholars of gender, sexuality, and embodiment.', Journal of Digital Social Research, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 86-106. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v4i3.140

Geerts, E 2022, 'Navigating (post-)anthropocenic times of crisis: a critical cartography of hope', CounterText, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 385-412. https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2022.0281

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Geerts, E & Carstens, D 2022, Reclaiming vital materialism’s affirmative, anti-fascist powers. A Deleuzoguattarian and new materialist exploration of the fascist-within. in R Braidotti & R Dolphijn (eds), Deleuze and Guattari and Fascisms. Deleuze Connections, Edinburgh University Press.

Chapter

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 & Identity Politics: Intersectional & Interferential Explorations. in M Tiainen, T Mehrabi, T Leppänen & K-K Kontturi (eds), Making Middles Matter. Routledge.

Geerts, E 2022, Cultivating ‘Knowing in Being’ – Feminist ‘Thinking-Doings'. in V Weetzel, C Åsberg, M Uden & E Just (eds), Intergender. Routledge.

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

Geerts, E, Tamboukou, M, Skinner, S, Gauthier, D, Sissel Hoel, A & Sauzet, S 2022, Genealogies and Apparatuses: Curated Panel. in F Colman & I van der Tuin (eds), Methods and Genealogies of New Materialism. Edinburgh University Press.

Geerts, E 2022, Post-Qualitative Inquiries. 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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