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 Critical Thinking & Political Theory, and Political Innovation, Leadership & Communication.

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

I have a PhD in Political Theory from Cardiff University (2007). I have 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 in comparative political theory and decolonising political theory; anti-colonial and decolonial thought; feminist theory; and critical pedagogy. I seek always to situate theory firmly in relation to practice and take an inter-disciplinary approach which draws on a wide range of sources including feminist theory, hermeneutics, critical pedagogy, and anti-colonial and decolonial writings and activism. 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, and explores how this relates to wider debates in the history of political thought around universalism and the construction of meanings. 

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. 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 several projects, including a co-authored book (with Professor David Boucher) on Western triumphalism and anti-colonial writings of Africa and the African diaspora.  

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

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

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