My research in political theory is motivated by two closely related aims. First, I develop a normative account of structural domination in contemporary socio-economic systems, including markets, digital platforms, and social institutions, with particular attention to how power operates without identifiable agents or collective intent. Second, I analyse the forms of political responsibility that arise under such conditions, focusing on how practices of recognition, praise, blame, and aesthetic uptake stabilise or contest domination.

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ethics Institute, Utrecht University, working on Professor Ingrid Robeyns’ VICI-funded project Visions for the Future, and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. 

Visions for the Future responds to calls for socio-economic models capable of replacing or transforming neoliberal capitalism, using a value-pluralist framework to analyse alternative political and economic arrangements. The project examines not only emancipatory proposals such as degrowth, the care economy, workplace democracy, universal basic income or services, and the wellbeing economy, but also authoritarian and illiberal responses to structural socio-economic change.

My own contribution to the project focuses on the relationship between structural domination, authoritarianism, and anti-fascist responsibility. I argue that contemporary fascism and authoritarian populism function as ideological and aesthetic regulators of structurally generated domination, rendering diffuse dependency and epistemic insecurity intelligible and normatively stable. Against accounts that treat fascism as a reaction to injustice or a pathology of belief, my work analyses how moral ontology and aesthetic form translate experiences of non-attributable power into narratives of unity, hierarchy, and purification. Building on this diagnosis, I develop an account of anti-fascist responsibility that focuses on how domination is sustained in everyday social and cultural practices. On this view, anti-fascist responsibility involves contesting and reshaping the moral, symbolic, and cultural norms through which unjust power relations are normalised and reproduced.

My research integrates republican and feminist political theory, drawing on accounts of non-domination, relational autonomy, and recognition, and is developed in close engagement with policy domains.

My work builds on previous research conducted as a postdoctoral fellow at the Justitia Centre for Advanced Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and during my PhD in Political Theory at University College London.

I have previously held teaching positions at the London School of Economics and University College London. My research is further informed by my experience as an elected Labour Party councillor in Islington (London) and by seven years of professional experience in international financial services policy.

I am the Editor of the Political Philosophy blog, What to do about now? https://www.whattodoaboutnow.com/