CJ Simon

Department of Politics and International Relations

PhD Research Student

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CJ Simon
Department of Politics and International Relations
Modular Teaching Village
Northumberland Road
91Ö±²¥
S10 1AJ
Profile

CJ is a doctoral researcher in the fields of Political Psychology, Cultural Studies, and Political Economy, with a focus on the role of cultural products like film, theatre, and poetry in shaping political behaviours and ideas. His research looks at cultural sites where White Supremacy is produced and resisted, taking up a variety of topics that relate to the power of ideology, collective memory, protest and organising-practices. His works adopts an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how emotions, cognition, and the global economy interact within the world of every day politics.

Qualifications

MA Social Research - University of 91Ö±²¥ (2024)

BA Politics and International Relations - University of 91Ö±²¥ (2024)

Research interests

Research Interests - Ontological Security Studies - Cultural Studies and the writings of Stuart Hall - Emotion Studies - Global Political Economy - Poststructuralism and Critical Theory - Pop Culture and World Politics PhD Research My PhD research is beginning as a very broad interdisciplinary attempt to understand how narratives shape the global politics of the everyday. Through the first year of my PhD this will largely involve synthesising a wide variety of literature that investigates how media, discourse, and culture interact with the political world. Through my second year I hope to realise a research project that employs both quantitative and qualitative methods to understand the mechanisms by which specific discourses produce or challenge White Supremacist ideologies within audiences. What will this look like? I'm not sure. But am excited to develop these ideas and projects over the first two years of my PhD. Outside of my central PhD project, I have been developing two papers that connect with my overall piece. The first explores how the presentation of Civil Rights history in cinema has reproduced a particular memory of political resistance and practice; the second utilises interviews with creative producers to understand how the funding, organisational, and creative practices of the creative industry shape the work of marginalised voices.

Research group

- Member of the BISA Emotion Studies Working Group

Grants

Funded by:

White Rose Doctoral Training Pathway

Stuart Hall Foundation