Dr Vikki Bell

Sociology

Professor | Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina | BA PhD

v.bell (@gold.ac.uk)

Research Interests

Transitional justice, especially in relation to cultural processes and concepts of peace, with specific interests in Northern Ireland and Argentina; Contemporary social and cultural theory, with specific interests in the work of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt; Ethics and esthetics; Feminist theory and the politics of difference; Performativity and its critique.

Recent research projects include Visual Art and Justice in Transitional Argentina (post 1983) (AHRC 2011-12) and 'Justice Demands' and the Negotiated Process of Art-Work Production in Argentina and Northern Ireland (AHRC 2006-7).

Recent Publications

Bell, Vikki. 2010. 'On Fernando's Photograph: The Biopolitics of Aparicion in Contemporary Argentina'. Theory, Culture & Society, 27(4), pp. 69-89.

Bell, Vikki and Di Paolantonio, Mario. 2009. The Haunted Nomos: Activist-Artists and the (Im)possible Politics of Memory in Transitional Argentina. Cultural Politics, 5(2), pp. 149-178.

Bell, Vikki. 2008. The Burden of Sensation and the Ethics of Form: Watching "Capturing the Friedmans". Theory, Culture and Society, 25(3), pp. 89-101.

Bell, Vikki. 2008. From Performativity to Ecology: On Judith Butler and Matters of Survival. Subjectivity, 25, pp. 395-412.

Bell, Vikki. 2007. Culture and Performance: The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory. Oxford: Berg.

Bell, Vikki, Gonzalez, Maria Ana and Grinberg, Silvia. 2007. La promesa del liberalismo y la performance de la libertad. Revista Argentina de Sociologia, 5(9), pp. 111-128.

Bell, Vikki. 2007. Transnational Public Sphere: The Potential of an "Unfolding Constellation": Imagining Fraser's Transnational Public Sphere. Theory, Culture and Society, 24(4), pp. 1-5.