Cat Wayland
- Name
- Cat Wayland
- Politics and International RelationsSchool of Social and Political ScienceUniversity of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- cwayland@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Critical Social and Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Methodology in political theory, Critical epistemologies, politics of knowldge production, Decolonisation, Intersectionality
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/jwi/about_us/people/cat_wayland
Supervisors
Mihaela Mihai (Politics) & Radhika Govinda (Sociology)
Research
My doctoral research project is a methodological critique of contemporary normative political theory. It adopts an intersectional methodology in order to render apparent the depoliticising tendencies of the analytical tradition. I argue that its failure to theorise adequately the complexities and nuances of multiple, interrelatedand simultaneous structural axes of power on subjectification and knowledge production render analytical theory politically inert, foreclosing avenues for transformative political action. Political theorising must be sensitive to the ways in which intersecting axes of power shape our understandings of ourselves–our identities andour structural positionalities –and the political world.
Education
2017-present - PhD Political Theory, University of Edinburgh
2016-2017 - MScR Politics, University of Edinburgh
2012-2013 - MA Political Philosophy (distinction), University of York
2009-2012 - BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics (1st class honours), University of York
Funding and Awards
2019 - Student Experience Grant (with Kamya Choudhary) awarded £2615 for two art-based projects on decolonising knowledge production
2016-2020 - ESRC 1+3 Studentship
2013 - Geoffrey Heselton Dissertation Prize (MA Political Philosophy)
2013 - Department of Politics Postgraduate Prize (MA Political Philosophy)
2012-2013 - Morrell Studentship for the MA in Political Philosophy (The Idea of Toleration)
Teaching and Lecturing
2020, 2019 - Political Thinkers - Tutor
2019 - Gender, Marginality and Social Change - Lecturer (with Sarah Golightley), Feminism and Disability in Global Contexts
Papers and Presentations
2020 - 'From the standpoint of [intersectional] justice' - presentation to Oslo-Edinburgh Joint PIR PhD Workshop
2019 - 'Theorising Disability from Margin to Centre' - paper presented at Political Theory Research Group, University of Edinburgh
2019 - ‘Decolonising Research and Feminist Friendships: A Conversation Across Boundaries’ - paper presented with Kamya Choudhary and Marta Kowalewska at Decolonising Feminist Knowledge: Reflections on Research and Curriculum
2019 - 'The Ableist Republic' - paper presented at Political Theory Research Group, University of Edinburgh
Other Outputs
2020 - 'Feminist Struggles in the Academy in India and the UK' - web/print comic, co-edited with Kamya Choudhary and Radhika Govinda
Community and Representation
2019-present - UCU Edinburgh SPS Postgraduate Contact
2017-2019 - Politics and IR Postgraduate Representative (with Emilia Belknap)