Vikki Bell BA PhD
Position held:
Professor of Sociology,
Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7724
Email:
v.bell (@gold.ac.uk)
Processes of subjectification; ethics; the politics of aesthetics; transitional justice, focusing on Northern Ireland and Argentina; feminist theory; social theory especially the impact of Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt.
BA (Hons) Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University, 1988; PhD, Edinburgh University, 1991; Lecturer, Roehampton Institute, London, 1991-3; appointed Goldsmiths College, 1993.
Teaching
Convenor of the MA Critical & Creative Analysis; post-graduate option 'Politics and Difference' (close readings of canonical thinkers of twentieth century and contemporary including Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer, Arendt, Foucault, Agamben, Butler, Gilroy, Mbembe); undergraduate option 'Philosophy, Politics and Alterity'; convenor and contributor to first year core course 'Critical Readings' (Swift, Kant, Rousseau, Marx, Engels, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Foucault, Stuart Hall); contributor to MA degrees (critical and post-structuralist analyses of culture including Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Judith Butler; the methods of cultural analysis; the changing analysis of child sexual abuse).
To hear Vikki speak about the MA Critical & Creative Analysis see the video here: http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/
Areas of supervision
I would be interested to supervise students within any of my research interests.
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 Aesthetics
- Feminist Theory and the Politics of Difference
- The Concept of Performativity and its Critique
2006-07: Funded research: A.H.R.C. ''Justice Demands' and the Negotiated Process of Art-Work Production in Argentina and Northern Ireland' Research Grants (Standard) Scheme (£31,901)
2011-12 Funded research: A.H.R.C. Fellowship 'Visual Art and Justice in Transitional Argentina (post 1983)' (App No: AH/I004335/1)
Editorial board member of international journals Theory, Culture & Society (1996-2010) and of Social and Legal Studies (2005-2009)
Selected publications
Bell, Vikki. 2011. Contemporary Art and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland: The Consolation of Form. Journal of Visual Culture, [Article]
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. [Article]
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. [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2008. From Performativity to Ecology: On Judith Butler and Matters of Survival. Subjectivity, 25, pp. 395-412. [Article]
Nash, Kate and Bell, Vikki. 2007. The Politics of Framing: An Interview with Nancy Fraser. Theory Culture & Society, 24(4), pp. 73-86. ISSN 14603616 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2007. Culture and Performance, "Performativity Challenged? Creativity and the Return of Interiority". (sample chapter 6 available, pp. 97-120). London: Berg. [Book]
Bell, Vikki. 2007. Culture and Performance: The Challenge of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory. Berg. ISBN 9781845201050 [Book]
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), ISSN 16679261 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2006. 'The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: On Agamben'. In: MESEA conference. Pamplona, SpainJuly 2006. [Conference or Workshop Item] (Forthcoming)
Bell, Vikki. 2005. On the Critique of Secular Ethics: An Essay with Flannery O'Connor and Hannah Arendt. Theory, Culture and Society, 22(2), pp. 1-27. ISSN 0263-2764 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2005. The Scenography of Suicide: Terror, Politics and the Humiliated Witness. Economy and Society, 34(2), pp. 241-260. ISSN 0308-5147 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2004. Spectres of Peace: Civic Participation in Northern Ireland. Social and legal studies, 13(3), pp. 403-428. ISSN 0964-6639 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2002. The Vigilant(e) Parent and the Paedophile: The News of the World Campaign 2000 and the Contemporary Governmentality of Child Sexual Abuse. Feminist Theory, 3(1), ISSN 1464-7001 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 2001. The Phone, the Father and Other Becomings: On Households (and Theories) that no longer Hold. Cultural Values, 5(3), pp. 383-402. ISSN 13 [Article]
Bell, Vikki. 1999. Feminist Imagination, chapter 4 "Appearance: Thinking Difference in the Political Realm with Hannah Arendt" [sample chapter from authored book]. London: Sage, pp. 62-84. ISBN 0803979711 [Book]
Bell, Vikki. 1996. The Promise of Liberalism and the Practice of Freedom: On Foucault and Arendt. In: Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne and Nicolas Rose, eds. Foucault and Political Reason. London: UCL Press/Taylor and Francis, pp. 81-97. ISBN 1857284321 [Book Section]
Bell, Vikki. 2009. Book Review: Who Sings the Nation-State?: Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak Calcutta, New York, Oxford: Seagull Books, 2007, pp. 121. Theory, Culture & Society, 26(5), p. 151. ISSN 0263-2764 [Article]