Simone Bignall is an Australian philosopher. She is Senior Researcher in Jumbunna Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures Hub at the

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. Bignall completed her doctoral degree in Philosophy at the

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in 2007, supervised by Professor

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. In 2010 she received a postdoctoral award and subsequently was appointed a Faculty Lecturer in Philosophy at the

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. She joined the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement at

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before taking up her current role at the University of Technology Sydney in 2019. Bignall's primary research interests fall within the field of postcolonial political philosophy, informed particularly by her work with Indigenous peoples engaged in sovereign Nation-building for self-determination and treaty. Her publications typically seek alliances between Indigenous Australian and contemporary European philosophies, aiming to find shared conceptual orientations. Her academic work is guided by a particular interest in the philosophical lineage from Spinoza to Deleuze and traverses critical posthumanism and continental philosophy, anarchism, colonial and postcolonial politics and culture, theories of embodiment and agency, feminism and ethics. With

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, Daryle Rigney and

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(2016-2018). Dr Bignall is best known for her research on system transformations, particularly in relation to the politics of Decolonisation and

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. She appears regularly as a curator and lecturer for Professor

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's annual Summer School on Posthumanism at the University of Utrecht and participates in international projects funded by research organisations based in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Books

* ''Postcolonial Agency: Critique and Constructivism'' (Edinburgh 2010) * ''Deleuze and the Postcolonial'' (with

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, 2010) * ''Agamben and Colonialism'' (with Marcelo Svirsky, 2012) * ''Deleuze and Pragmatism'' (with Sean Bowden and Paul R. Patton, 2014) * ''Posthuman Ecologies'' (with

, 2018) * ''Excolonialism: Ethics after Enjoyment'', forthcoming

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