About
Current interests include:
- Existentialism
- German idealism
- Political theory
- Philosophy of art
- Environmental ethics
- Indigenous philosophy
- Philosophy of social movements.
Education and credentials
- PhD, Ottawa
Research summary
I am currently writing a book about Jacques Rancière, Simone de Beauvoir, and antifascism. My long-term project, called Unsettling Existentialism, involves rethinking the work of Sartre, Beauvoir, and other existentialists through the lens of anticolonial and decolonial—that is, Africana, creole, and Indigenous—frameworks.
Publications and other research outputs
- Egalitarian Moments: From Descartes to Rancière (Bloomsbury, 2016)
- Freedom and Nature in Schelling’s Philosophy of Art (Bloomsbury, 2010)
Recent articles and review essays
- "Politics That Does Not Command: Reconsidering Rancière’s Opposition Between Politics and Policing,” Parrhesia (2019)
- With Veldon Coburn, “The Real ‘Justice’ Denied Colten Boushie,” Policy Options (February 15, 2018).
- With Veldon Coburn: “Renewing the Status Quo: The Colonial Politics of Recognition in Trudeau’s ‘Renewed’ Relationship with Indigenous Nations” E-International Review (September 7, 2017). Parrhesia (2019)
- “Disagreement and Recognition between Rancière and Honneth” (A review of Axel Honneth and Jacques Rancière, Recognition or Disagreement), Boundary 2 Online (March 13, 2017)