Rebekah Sinclair

Rebekah Sinclair

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Philosopher 

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I am a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oregon. 


For the 2019/2020 School Year, I am also an Andrew Mellon and Center for Environmental Futures Dissertation Fellow. 



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Research and publications (recent selection)

Agua-biographies: Derrida on Water, Ontopology, and Refugees

Douglas Greenlee Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student or New Scholar

Exploding Individuals: Engaging Indigenous Logic and Decolonizing Science

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Forthcoming in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy. This is both a playful and serious paper that uses Derrida's destabilizing liquid logic to theorize and problematize the aqua- or agua-fication (the making less solid) of central and south-american refugees by associating them with water and water metaphors. 

Exploding Individuals: Engaging Indigenous Logic and Decolonizing Science

Douglas Greenlee Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student or New Scholar

Exploding Individuals: Engaging Indigenous Logic and Decolonizing Science

I'm honored to be included in a recent Hypatia issue amplifying Indigenous and decolonial voices.

I'm honored to be included in Hypatia's Winter 2020 issue, which focuses on amplifying Indigenous and decolonial feminist scholarship. 

Douglas Greenlee Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student or New Scholar

Douglas Greenlee Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student or New Scholar

And Say the Animal Resisted?: Derridean Biopolitics and the Problem with Species

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At the recent Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, my coauthor Maggie Newton and I recently won an award for our paper, "A/Peracernos:   

Rethinking the Multiplicitous Self as “Haunted” with Anzaldúa, La 

Malinche, and Other Ghosts."

And Say the Animal Resisted?: Derridean Biopolitics and the Problem with Species

Guests, Pest, or Terrorists: Speciesed Ethics and the Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive’ Others

And Say the Animal Resisted?: Derridean Biopolitics and the Problem with Species

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Righting Names: The Importance of Native American Philosophies of Naming For Environmental Justice

Guests, Pest, or Terrorists: Speciesed Ethics and the Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive’ Others

Guests, Pest, or Terrorists: Speciesed Ethics and the Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive’ Others

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Guests, Pest, or Terrorists: Speciesed Ethics and the Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive’ Others

Guests, Pest, or Terrorists: Speciesed Ethics and the Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive’ Others

Guests, Pest, or Terrorists: Speciesed Ethics and the Colonial Intelligibility of ‘Invasive’ Others

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This piece was published in an excellent collection on the ethics and rhetoric of "invasivity," edited by James Stanescu and Kevin Cummings.