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Borderlines

Borderlines is a research collective at Queen Mary championing social justice through bold, collaborative, and decolonial approaches that challenge boundaries and inspire new ways of thinking.

About Borderlines

Borderlines is an Interdisciplinary Research Collective committed to social justice, radical, experimental and innovative methodologies and interdisciplinary pedagogies and conceptual paradigms. The group aims to bring together diverse scholars resisting strict definition of fields and disciplines but thriving through differences and alternative vantage points. Committed to decolonizing of praxis and the problematisation of the normative through critical enquiry, it seeks to thwart the margins, peripheries, boundaries and notions of alterity.

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As a research collective, we are committed to supporting interdisciplinarity through developing collaborative initiatives among research faculty, students, social justice organisers, artists, and activists. Our members and affiliates come from across the university’s faculties, including international faculty, students, and research centres. We do not limit ourselves geographically and have established research relations with partners in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Europe, India, Mexico, and the US. This diversity enables us to challenge normative or taken-for-granted assumptions about race, decoloniality, and critical frameworks, and contributes to the development of contextualized, cutting-edge research ideas and methods.

Our strength lies in our interdisciplinary work across Queen Mary faculties and global partners, with a focus on collaboration and inclusion. Many of our initiatives centre on doctoral students, student groups, and early-career academics who wish to establish research collectives, raise awareness of critical ideas and radical movements, and develop relations with different disciplinary fields and traditions. We are keen to hear from you and to support your ideas - please get in touch!

The political economy of cultural and creative production under late-platform capitalism
Digital, networked, virtual and algorithmic worlds - and their emergent identities, affects and subjectivities
Radical, creative and non-extractive methodologies and pedagogies
Intersectional reflexivities, embodied critique and autoethnographic explorations
Post-, neo- and de-colonial thinking, feminist, queer, transfeminist, anti-imperial imaginaries
Aesthetics as knowledge; knowledge as aesthetics · Histories, memory work, archiving, ephemerality, the untimely, the withheld, and the spectral
Fictioning, worlding, myth, fantasy, dreams, post-truth ecologies
Sustainability, extractivism, climate precarity, eco-poetics
Power, privilege, refusal, opacity
Digital archives, mobile interfaces and corporeal technologies