Dr Wendy Martineau

• Qualifications:MA MSc (BPS) PhD (Cardiff) FHEA
• Position:Associate Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
• Department:School of Social Sciences
• Telephone:+441179656261
• Email:Wendy.Martineau@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

I am currently an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Politics & International Relations at UWE and teach on the modules Political Innovation, Leadership & Communication, and Existentialism & Questions of Human Nature. I am also the Continuation Lead in philosophy and supervise dissertations across politics and philosophy.

I am an Honorary Research Associate in the School of Sociology, Politics & International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol, a co-convenor of the Political Studies Association Political Thought Specialist Group, and a member of the Decolonisation in HE Network.

I have a PhD in Political Theory from Cardiff University (2007) and Masters degrees in Political Theory (Swansea University) and Psychology of Education (University of Bristol), and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Politics (Swansea University). 

My research interests are broadly in International political theory and decolonising political theory. I take an interdisciplinary approach which engages with a range of literature including anti-colonial and decolonial thought; feminist theory; critical pedagogy; and philosophical hermeneutics. My current research focuses on the historic and ongoing impacts of colonialism and coloniality at the epistemic and cultural level, through the work of anti-colonial writers of Africa and the African diaspora.

My current focus builds on and extends my earlier work on recognition and identity. My PhD was titled 'Achieving Cross-Cultural Understanding' and used a hermeneutic approach to explore how we can foster conditions for understanding and shared universalisms across lines of difference. Before my career break, I carried out an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2008-2011 (University of Bristol), mentored by Prof Judith Squires, which further explored the topic of recognition, focusing particularly on British Muslims.

I have several single-authored and co-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals and am currently working on a co-authored book (with Professor David Boucher), Anti-Colonial Thought in Africa and the Diaspora:Language, Culture and Resistance (for the Palgrave MacMillan International Political Theory series).  

My publications can be viewed here: (8) Wendy Martineau (researchgate.net)

In my spare time, I enjoy playing music, running, being in nature and spending time with my children and my dog. 

Area of expertise

Comparative political theory, history of political thought, feminist theory, anticolonial & decolonial literature.  

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