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Benedetta Zocchi

Email: b.zocchi@qmul.ac.uk  Benedetta Zocchi profile photo

Research Topic: The Making of a Frontier: Colonial and Subversive Logics in the Bosnian canton of Una-Sana

Supervisors: Prof Engin Isin, and Dr Rachel Humphris

Research Interests: Critical Border Studies, Critical Mobility Studies, Decolonial Thinking, Scholar Activism

Education/Professional Qualifications:

  • BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics - LUISS Guido Carli University 2013-2016
  • MPhil International Relations – DPIR- University of Oxford 2016-2018
  • Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar – Mobile People: Mobility as a Way of Life 2019-2022

Work Experience:

  • Research Associate – CIRSFID. Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna (2018)

  • Research Collaborator- ‘Memory of Mobility, Mobility of Memory’, (2019) - Research project based at CES University of Coimbra

  • Junior Researcher –ILIESI (Istituto Per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee) (2019)

  • Research Assistant – School of Language, Linguistics and Film (2021)

  • Teaching Associate – School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London (2020 - present)
  • Teaching Associate – School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London (2020 - present)
  • POL355 – Globalization, Issues and Debates
  • POL106 – Introduction to International Relations
  • POL109 – Global Histories

Publications:

  • Zocchi, B. ‘Be Brave but Be Smart. Can PhD Researcher be Epistemically Disobedient?’ Decolonial Subversions (2022). Zocchi, B. ‘On the Margins of Europe: Colonial Violence at the Bosnian-Croatian Frontier’ (2021) in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Right
  • Zocchi, B ‘The Game: La Condanna Quotidiana del Sisifo Contemporaneo’ (2020) in Bosnia: Ultima Frontiera: Racconti dalla Rotta Balcanica Eris Edizioni.
  • Zocchi, B. ‘Necropolitica’ in Dubosc, F. et Al. (2019) Lessico della Crisi e del Possibile. Cento Lemmi per Praticare il Presente’
  • Zocchi, B. ‘Italian Colonialism in the Making of National Consciousness: Representations of African Natives’, "Storicamente", 15 (2019), no. 7.

Twitter: @ZocchiBenedetta

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