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Current editors

Valerie Momas

Valerie is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the temporalities of Racial Capitalism by combining Derrida’s concept of Hauntology with Decolonial Marxism. Affiliated with the Critical Global Politics cluster, her broader research interests include postcolonial theory, decolonial theorisations of time and space, revisionist Marxism and racial labour subjugation in global capitalism. 

 

Ellen Hietsch

Ellen Hietsch is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, where she is completing a project on the impact of affective subjective anxiety on policy development in post-Franco Spain. She is affiliated with the Critical Global Politics research cluster. Ellen is interested in emotions in international politics, Lacanian theories of anxiety, liberal biopolitics, and trauma and memory in post-authoritarian Spain

 

Nicolle Loughlin

Nicolle Loughlin is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, focusing on infrastructural finance and international political economy (IPE), with a focus on South East and East Asia and the Middle East. Her work examines how Indonesia’s domestic capitalist class mediates and orchestrates foreign infrastructure finance, with a focus on Chinese bilateral capital and Gulf sovereign wealth, and what this reveals about the co-production of contemporary world order. Nicolle’s broader academic interests include the financialisation of infrastructure, Chinese development finance, digital governance, state capitalism, middle power agency, and the political economy of China, Southeast Asia, North Korea, and the Middle East.

 

 

Yonghao Huang

Yonghao Huang is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, working on a theoretical framework about how Liberal Democracy should defend itself from the challenges of illiberal without violating liberal commitments and principles, involving the debates between political moralism and realism. Yonghao is affiliated with the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). He is interested in contemporary Political Philosophy/Theory, particularly in liberal theory, Rawlsian Political Liberalism, debates on normative source of politics and democratic self-defence. 

 

Soham Banerjee

Soham Banerjee is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, where he currently investigates the spatial politics of international climate finance. More specifically, he is interested in understanding the extent of partisan alignment in distribution and allocation of international climate funds in India and its impact on the overall climate policy narrative in the country. His broader research interests include politics of climate change, climate finance, climate negotiations and Indian politics.

Timothy Siew Wei Bin

Timothy Siew is a PhD student at the University of Manchester. His research is focused on reconciling the conflict(s) between agonism and reason-giving in pluralist democracies. Tim is affiliated with MANCEPT, and his wider research interests include democratic theory, pluralism, and justice.

 

Amritha Foustine

Amritha Foustine is a PhD student based in the Politics & Art History departments at the University of Manchester focusing on the role of mimetic masculinities in ethnonationalism and postcolonial racial capitalism. Her work explores the broader impact of British colonialism’s gendered project in the rise of fascism across the Global South.

 

Current editors

Valerie Momas

Valerie is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester. Her research explores the temporalities of Racial Capitalism by combining Derrida’s concept of Hauntology with Decolonial Marxism. Affiliated with the Critical Global Politics cluster, her broader research interests include postcolonial theory, decolonial theorisations of time and space, revisionist Marxism and racial labour subjugation in global capitalism. 

 

Ellen Hietsch

Ellen Hietsch is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, where she is completing a project on the impact of affective subjective anxiety on policy development in post-Franco Spain. She is affiliated with the Critical Global Politics research cluster. Ellen is interested in emotions in international politics, Lacanian theories of anxiety, liberal biopolitics, and trauma and memory in post-authoritarian Spain

 

Yonghao Huang

Yonghao Huang is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, working on a theoretical framework about how Liberal Democracy should defend itself from the challenges of illiberal without violating liberal commitments and principles, involving the debates between political moralism and realism. Yonghao is affiliated with the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). He is interested in contemporary Political Philosophy/Theory, particularly in liberal theory, Rawlsian Political Liberalism, debates on normative source of politics and democratic self-defence. 

 

Soham Banerjee

Soham Banerjee is a PhD student in Politics at the University of Manchester, where he currently investigates the spatial politics of international climate finance. More specifically, he is interested in understanding the extent of partisan alignment in distribution and allocation of international climate funds in India and its impact on the overall climate policy narrative in the country. His broader research interests include politics of climate change, climate finance, climate negotiations and Indian politics.

Timothy Siew Wei Bin

Timothy Siew is a PhD student at the University of Manchester. His research is focused on reconciling the conflict(s) between agonism and reason-giving in pluralist democracies. Tim is affiliated with MANCEPT, and his wider research interests include democratic theory, pluralism, and justice.

 

Past editors

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