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Project: Sea Rescue, The Black Mediterranean, and Planetary Humanism
Year of start: 2022
Supervisors: Prof Paul Gilroy (principal) and Prof Tariq Jazeel
PhD Research: The recurring scenes of humanity drifting and drowning in the Mediterranean basin guide my project's attempt to develop a vocabulary that responds to living and dying in relation to water. The themes of emergency and disaster extend beyond the Mediterranean waterways as I situate the shipwrecks saved and shipwrecks left as entangled within the concurrent processes that shape and transform the planet, threatening the possibility of enduring and shared life. I am interested in the processes, practises and outcomes of sea-rescue on the Mediterranean and consider the political and ethical implications and possibilities they evoke.
Honours, Awards & Funding:
The Shaun Johnson Memorial Scholarship