HASTAC Commons | Christopher Griffin | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/christophergriffin/activity/ Activity feed for Christopher Griffin. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:07:34 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0c0b8c9534d895b79edcb06bf62884a0 Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1919884/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:21:09 +0000 0 c70f3c95f19ab6ecc49bf70e5493d6fd Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913420/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:35:22 +0000 0 d7ed4b5d0d2d278984c722ccaa52e2eb Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909377/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:19:59 +0000 0 f59f57135aca38de60897d544a4cc380 Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889929/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 11:18:29 +0000 0 1ebe854339a73c624950b59f82f2f97b Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884636/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:59 +0000 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 6208fda883aacdfb75d8c6741ddc0277 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884634/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:53 +0000 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 7de91b09082ae63d809fdce0d81d3b52 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884633/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:46 +0000 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0d1589a71d5fed6cff5fd5ad8f7bee1 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884632/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:34 +0000 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f5e5ef5d3e783806374d1e8d683d358 Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884052/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:34:17 +0000 0 d7a54c3808f50c3c745e9e4a7c026da6 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884016/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:10:35 +0000 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 72cf4294f64faaf563801e30cad775fe Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860258/ Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:37:02 +0000 0 08233e82ccd6078afd92e0ccb589a9a1 Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group Queer Theory Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846676/ Sat, 20 May 2023 02:24:06 +0000 In this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]

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]]> 0 6375d804ba32e6f1462895eec233fa1a Christopher Griffin deposited Covid Disobedience and the Autoimmune Self-Destruction of Liberal Individualism in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846673/ Sat, 20 May 2023 02:23:39 +0000 In this short article, I discuss a form of civil disobedience that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic: the refusal to comply with lockdown rules. Because such rule-breakers often claim that they are acting to preserve freedom, I ask whether their unwillingness to help prevent the spread of the virus is symptomatic of neoliberal individualism.…[Read more]

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]]> 0 b727c69126700b1ebeb90abd49dcd066 Christopher Griffin deposited Covid Disobedience and the Autoimmune Self-Destruction of Liberal Individualism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846605/ Fri, 19 May 2023 12:59:37 +0000 In this short article, I discuss a form of civil disobedience that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic: the refusal to comply with lockdown rules. Because such rule-breakers often claim that they are acting to preserve freedom, I ask whether their unwillingness to help prevent the spread of the virus is symptomatic of neoliberal individualism.…[Read more]

]]> 0 541517db5fde24fc0b64006e69cab1a5 Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846600/ Fri, 19 May 2023 12:05:21 +0000 0 ccb394ce77b0bb944cfc1bf7a21e3c1a Christopher Griffin changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846601/ Fri, 19 May 2023 08:06:21 +0000 0 3f1b8a369fbdf219a1aaddb45d445c3d Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834928/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:36:38 +0000 0 6840ac94f436a90fba0a65618a6d4764 Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group Queer Theory Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833127/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:24:37 +0000 The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a3229d690358bb076dad6a896ddef81 Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833126/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:24:25 +0000 The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c7b58ad5b87b84045e2e103b515e7c7 Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833125/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:24:22 +0000 The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

]]> 0 879ee0b9d7ffb2e0fe5da36b62605bc4 Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group Feminist Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833124/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:23:57 +0000 The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

]]> 0 be9bd87d96b7ff8f27e37f17628666fb Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group Commoning the Means of Knowledge Production https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833123/ Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:23:54 +0000 The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1750e26bf8ca8cf03865e253acdedc6 Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833035/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 11:57:51 +0000 The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

]]> 0 90cf155af35341a65d7e5bbd17a8e67f Christopher Griffin's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830608/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:05:04 +0000 0 4dd21009bbd85525e694fa1c9605b595 Christopher Griffin deposited Relationalities of Refusal: Neuroqueer Disidentification and Post-Normative Approaches to Narrative Recognition in the group Speculative and Science Fiction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829531/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:26:11 +0000 The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]

]]> 0 c59b6934c29750972b3a29a71e1daead Christopher Griffin deposited Relationalities of Refusal: Neuroqueer Disidentification and Post-Normative Approaches to Narrative Recognition in the group Queer Theory Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829530/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:26:09 +0000 The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec172039ab0a2a1fc10c05d8e72b8251 Christopher Griffin deposited Relationalities of Refusal: Neuroqueer Disidentification and Post-Normative Approaches to Narrative Recognition in the group Narrative theory and Narratology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829529/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:26:03 +0000 The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]

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]]> 0 00454e366454314a1c08b92b7bd4de85 Christopher Griffin deposited On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality (Call for Papers) in the group Queer Theory Group https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829525/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:25:30 +0000 A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK). Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023. Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online. Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE). Deadline for abstracts: Friday 24 February 2023. Please see poster for…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfbdf8d76e2adf6e937ab6ec0b22ace4 Christopher Griffin deposited On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality (Call for Papers) in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829524/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:25:26 +0000 A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK). Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023. Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online. Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE). Deadline for abstracts: Friday 24 February 2023. Please see poster for…[Read more]

]]> 0 2109ffb2516dad05399347840a26374a Christopher Griffin deposited On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality (Call for Papers) in the group Narrative theory and Narratology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829523/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:25:17 +0000 A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK). Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023. Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online. Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE). Deadline for abstracts: Friday 24 February 2023. Please see poster for…[Read more]

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]]> 0 5fb9e3616fda8404d6761703e8fe403e Christopher Griffin deposited On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality (Call for Papers) in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829521/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:25:05 +0000 A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK). Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023. Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online. Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE). Deadline for abstracts: Friday 24 February 2023. Please see poster for…[Read more]

]]> 0 0c02a1247f9641dceb44c3eaa604a0a1 Christopher Griffin deposited Relationalities of Refusal: Neuroqueer Disidentification and Post-Normative Approaches to Narrative Recognition https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829265/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 12:31:07 +0000 The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]

]]> 0 6359ed83ed86c4640a4b1999a4542e67 Christopher Griffin started the topic CfP: On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality in the discussion Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-on-relationalities-politics-narrative-sociality-3/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:40:48 +0000 On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality

A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK).

Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023

Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online

Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE)

Deadline…[Read more]

]]> 0 d486496679f3c1e4391f26fce3a7489d Christopher Griffin started the topic CfP: On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality in the discussion Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/critical-disability-studies/forum/topic/cfp-on-relationalities-politics-narrative-sociality-2/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:40:46 +0000 On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality

A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK).

Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023

Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online

Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE)

Deadline…[Read more]

]]> 0 386740b8e27422747deb63d827448a50 Christopher Griffin started the topic CfP: On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality in the discussion Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/groups/political-philosophy-theory/forum/topic/cfp-on-relationalities-politics-narrative-sociality/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:40:40 +0000 On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality

A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK).

Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023

Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online

Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE)

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a5ed5cde841961750ec9b72b6d255f5 Christopher Griffin deposited On Relationalities: Politics, Narrative, Sociality (Call for Papers) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828817/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 20:10:11 +0000 A one-day hybrid symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton (UK).

Date: Wednesday 5 April 2023
Location: University of Brighton, City Campus, M2, and online
Keynote speaker: Dr Leticia Sabsay (LSE)
Deadline for abstracts: Friday 24 February 2023

Please see…[Read more]

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