Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5)

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PhiDisSocCh5) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges members of the philosophical community to (1) think more critically about the metaphysical and epistemological status of disability; (2) closely examine how philosophy of disability is related to the tradition and discipline of philosophy; and (3) seriously consider how philosophy and philosophers contribute to the pervasive inequality and subordination that disabled people confront throughout society.

Polina Whitehouse

Polina Whitehouse is a first-year DPhil student in political theory. Supervised by David Leopold, she is working on a thesis that defends the holistic and systematic dimensions of utopia, understood as a method for political theory, and interprets prison and family abolition as constructive utopian projects rather than merely negative objectives. She completed her MPhil thesis on a closely related topic, approached through engagement with the work of Theodor Adorno, Alexander Bogdanov, and Angela Davis.

Andrew Dougall

I am a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations, based jointly at Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations and St Hilda’s College. I also hold an affiliation with Pembroke College, where I am a Career Development Lecturer in International Relations. 

Dr Dana Mills, 'Dissenting Against War and Colonialism in Writing and in Action'

Part of the Vera Fine-Grodzinski Programme for Writing Jewish Women’s Lives

The questions of war, militarism, colonialism, imperialism, dissent and Jewishness have been anything but theoretical conundrums in 2023-2024. For three months since October 7th, Dr Dana Mills wrote near-daily essays, reporting her fears, thoughts and – occasionally – hopes. These diaries were published in March 2024 as One Woman’s War.
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