About me

I am a researcher in Political Philosophy and Theory, currently affiliated with the subject of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. I'm in the process of finishing my PhD research at the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society. I'm also an affiliated researcher with INEQ, the Helsinki Inequality Initiative, a strategic, multidisciplinary research initiative of the University of Helsinki. I have graduated with a Master's degree in Social and Moral Philosophy from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki and hold a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki.

My research interests involve questions concerning the Philosophy and Theory of Political Imagination, Political Ontology and Political Affectivity. I'm interested in both methodological questions concerning the use of ontological and imaginal investigation in relation to the political world as well as in understanding and analyzing contemporary political imaginaries, ontologies and affective political environments.

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My other main area of research interest concerns theories of radical democracy, the critical diagnostic of contemporary democracies as well as the examination of contemporary political phenomena which sit uneasily with democratic politics. As such my research touches on Totalitarian, Extremist and Populist Political Movements and their affective and imaginal dimensions. 

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My PhD project is titled Political Ontology and Imagination: Towards a Democratic Political Imaginary. It combines perspectives in current research on political imagination, political ontology and democratic theory. I work within the tradition of continental political philosophy, researching thinkers such as Cornelius Castoriadis, Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Lefort, in order to sketch out a new theory of political ontology. My aim is to shed light on the political ontology of democracy through an enriched conception of the role of political imagination for democratic politics. The project will also develop new conceptual tools to identify undemocratic political dynamics in relation to political imagination. 

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In my research I draw inspiration from a wide variety of theoretical sources, but my main areas of competency are within contemporary political thought, including but not limited to: 

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• 20th and 21st century "continental" political thought

• poststructural political thought

• radical democratic thought

• affect theory

• critical theory 

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I'm fluent in English, Swedish and Finnish and have a good grasp of French, Norwegian and Danish.

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