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Associate Professor Tracey Nicholls PhD Philosophy

Associate Professor in Politics

Doctoral Supervisor
School of People, Environment and Planning

Professional

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - McGill University (2006)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 2 1

Current Projects

Project Title: Misogyny, rhetorical violence and the invisibilised entwining of digital and embodied social worlds

Online misogyny functions to silence women, it is pervasive and increasing in intensity. We urgently need new ways to understand and respond to this threat to civil society. Bringing feminist theories of misogyny, affect, and intersectionality into dialogue, we conceptualise online misogyny as patriarchally motivated policing, strategically targeting women exercising leadership who take up public space, enacted through a networked public, and felt in the body. Arguing that it is through these embodied, felt experiences that online misogyny enacts power, our research will centre the collective experience of these feelings in a transdisciplinary project employing creative research methods. The research will involve four integrated work packages that will advance theory; create new understandings of the embodied experience of online misogyny, including Indigenous experiences; and identify forms of resistance to its impacts. This work will employ novel collaborative inquiry methods, including paired interviews with women leaders (politicians, journalists, and academics); all-women arts-based explorations of how misogyny feels; and gender diverse group discussions that will use biofeedback and film to explore the affective power of misogyny. Combined, the project will significantly advance knowledge of online misogyny, shape public and academic discourse, and envision possibilities for future gender equity in public participation.
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Date Range: 2024 - 2027

Funding Bodies: Marsden Fund - Standard; Royal Society of New Zealand

Project Team:

Research Outputs

Journal

Nicholls, T. (2020). Postcoloniality in the age of pandemic. The C.L.R. James Journal.
[Book Review]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2018). Improvising Rage. Liminalities: a journal of performance studies.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2012). New Ways of Being You and Me. The C.L.R. James Journal.
[Book Review]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2012). Concerning Violence Against Women. e-cadernos ces.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2011). Should I Speak for My Sister?. PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2011). Pedagogy of the Privileged. The C.L.R. James Journal.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2010). The Viable Possibility of Humanization. PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture.
[Book Review]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2010). Speaking Justice, Performing Reconciliation. Critical Studies in Improvisation.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2010). Crossing into lawlessness. Environment, Space, Place.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2010). Listening to the unspoken, Listening for the unspeakable. Les Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherche en musique.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2009). Treachery and Torture. PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture.
[Book Review]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2007). Music and Philosophy. Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.
[Book Review]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2007). Mark Kingwell's Nearest Thing to Heaven. PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture.
[Book Review]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2006). Dominant Positions. Critical Studies in Improvisation.
[Journal article]Authored by: Nicholls, T.

Book

Nicholls, T. (2020). Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: reassessed. In Foucault's Theatres. : Manchester University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T.(2020). Dismantling Rape Culture.
[Authored Book]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2017). What's love got to do with it?. In Improvisation and Social Aesthetics. : Improvisation, Community, and
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2016). If Only They Were Money. In A Future Without Borders? Theories and Practices of Cosmopolitan Peacebuilding. : Brill/Rodopi
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2015). The Great White North. In I Don't See Color Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege. : Penn State University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T.(2012). An Ethics of Improvisation Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future. : Lexington Books
[Authored Book]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2011). If I Should Wake Before I Die. In Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema A Sartrean Perspective. : Berghahnonfilm
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2010). Opening up the academy. In Fanon and the Decolonization of Philosophy.
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2009). George W. Bush's Burden. In A New Kind of Containment "the War on Terror," Race, and Sexuality. : Rodopi
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.
Nicholls, T. (2008). Making It Up As We Go Along. In Parceling the Globe Philosophical Explorations in Globalization, Global Behavior, and Peace. : Rodopi
[Chapter]Authored by: Nicholls, T.

Teaching and Supervision

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 3 0

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • Liam Hoselton - Doctor of Philosophy
    Foreign Interference and Xenophobia - A comparison of New Zealand and Canada
  • Erik Hascal - Doctor of Philosophy
    A Nietzschean & Nagarjunian Critique of Metaphysics.
  • Brittany Palatchie - Doctor of Philosophy
    The precarity of platform capitalism: How collective mobilisation changes as the sex work industry shifts to online marketplaces.