CLARISSA MULLER-KOSMAROV
My research is predominantly concerned with the application of critical phenomenological methods to identity-based marginalisation, oppression, and social exclusion. Whilst my doctoral research takes up the "meta" question of othering, beyond this project, most of my research has focused on experiences, concepts, and phenomena relating to ableism, disability, and neurodivergence, particularly ADHD and Autism.
Most recently, I have authored the article 'Neurodiversity and Philosophy' with Dr Robert Chapman for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. Here we provide a brief overview of the history of the neurodiversity paradigm as well as outlining some key concepts and contributions within the philosophy of neurodiversity.
Other papers of mine have explored the concept of neurodivergence, asking what exactly it is that certain neurotypes "diverge" from and foregrounding the relations of (ab)normalisation underpinning this, interrogated the ways in which the exclusion of autistic people from autism research has resulted in the proliferation of an oppressive discourse that is about but not of those it concerns, and shown how experiences of "dynamic" disabilities are problematic for traditional phenomenological accounts of subjectivity and selfhood.
Currently, I am working on developing my doctoral dissertation into a monograph. As part of this, I am writing a supplementary chapter on the relationship between othering and belonging, exploring how the notion of home (or homeliness) and identity can both promote and undermine experiences of belonging without othering.
For a full list of my publications and works in progress, please see my CV.
My research is predominantly concerned with the application of critical phenomenological methods to identity-based marginalisation, oppression, and social exclusion. Whilst my doctoral research takes up the "meta" question of othering, beyond this project, most of my research has focused on experiences, concepts, and phenomena relating to ableism, disability, and neurodivergence, particularly ADHD and Autism.
Most recently, I have authored the article 'Neurodiversity and Philosophy' with Dr Robert Chapman for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies. Here we provide a brief overview of the history of the neurodiversity paradigm as well as outlining some key concepts and contributions within the philosophy of neurodiversity.
Other papers of mine have explored the concept of neurodivergence, asking what exactly it is that certain neurotypes "diverge" from and foregrounding the relations of (ab)normalisation underpinning this, interrogated the ways in which the exclusion of autistic people from autism research has resulted in the proliferation of an oppressive discourse that is about but not of those it concerns, and shown how experiences of "dynamic" disabilities are problematic for traditional phenomenological accounts of subjectivity and selfhood.
Currently, I am working on developing my doctoral dissertation into a monograph. As part of this, I am writing a supplementary chapter on the relationship between othering and belonging, exploring how the notion of home (or homeliness) and identity can both promote and undermine experiences of belonging without othering.
For a full list of my publications and works in progress, please see my CV.