CJ Simon

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.