Dr Peter Rees
Staff details
Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department
Politics and International Relations
peter.rees (@gold.ac.uk)
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Peter Rees is a political theorist and postdoctoral researcher focusing on migration, citizenship and rights.
Peter Rees is a political theorist whose research focusses on migration, citizenship and human rights. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on a Volkswagen Stiftung funded project titled ‘Traces of mobility, violence and solidarity: Reconceptualizing cultural heritage through the lens of migration’.
His published work investigates the relationship between universal rights and citizenship with an empirical focus on migration and is based on his PhD research. This includes topics such as rightslessness, rights claiming, border violence, citizenship law and rhetorical theory. More recently, he has developed an interest in areas such as cultural heritage, archives and maritime migration.
Prior to rejoining Goldsmiths, Peter was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Aberystwyth University. He obtained his PhD in 2020 at Goldsmiths College, in the Department of Politics & International Relations.
Academic qualifications
- PhD Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths College, University of London 2020
- MSc Social and Political Theory, Birkbeck College, University of London 2013
- BA (Hons) English, University of Sussex 2010
Teaching and supervision
- PO52052A: Politics and Technology (2nd year module)
- PO53066B: MIGRATION, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITARIANISM
Featured publications
2021:
Rhetoric and Rights: Citizenship and the Politics of Persuasion
Political Studies
2021:
Violent borders, citizenship and the politics of migration
Contemporary Political Theory
2017:
The Rights Claims of the Sans-papiers: Transgressing the borders of citizenship
Tropos
Publications and research outputs
Article
Rees, Peter. 2024. The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice. Contemporary Political Theory, ISSN 1470-8914
Rees, Peter. 2017. The Rights Claims of the Sans-papiers: Transgressing the borders of citizenship. Tropos, 4(1), ISSN 2057-2212
Thesis
Rees, Peter. 2022. Citizenship as Method: A post-foundational approach to the problem of rightlessness. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
Professional projects
Peter has an interest in Sanctuary initiatives and has worked with Lewisham Borough and Lewisham Migration Forum to help develop Lewisham’s bid to become a Borough of Sanctuary. He also has an interest in political education and has worked as an organiser for a political education charity, organising talks and workshops as well as appearing on their podcasts and YouTube channel.