Department of Politics and International Studies
Taylor Borowetz
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- Roles
- Department of Politics and International Studies PhD Researcher
- Qualifications
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BA (University of Saskatchewan)
MA (University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies)
MSc (KU Leuven) PhD (SOAS) - Email address
- tb50@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Contemporary Abolitionism and the Haitian Revolution: Recursive Histories of Liberation
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Hagar Kotef
Biography
Taylor Borowetz is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London.
Taylor is co-editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies and chair of the European International Studies Association's "Concepts and Theories" section. Her doctoral research traces the concept of liberation through the Haitian Revolution and contemporary abolitionist thought. She has published on issues relating to conceptual history and memory, human rights, and the situation of early career academics in the UK.
While completing her undergraduate degree from the University of Saskatchewan, Taylor studied and lived in Japan, Denmark, and Ecuador. She moved to Brussels to complete two masters degrees: one from the Brussels School of International Studies (MA International Development and Human Rights Law), and one from KU Leuven (Cultural Anthropology and Development). After this, she moved to London to start her PhD at SOAS. She teaches undergraduate courses in political theory, international studies, and history.
Taylor is interested in conceptual history and the concept of liberation, specifically within an abolitionist genealogy. In her thesis, she explores themes of translation, resonance, and the possibilities for solidarity and connection between movements, as well as complex and recursive understandings of temporality.
She considers the Haitian Revolution to be a particularly instructive historical moment, and also reflects frequently in historiography and epistemology. In addition to her methodological contributions, Taylor’s conclusion is animated by the logic of “withering away” as it could be applied to policing and prisons as well as the state itself. Inspired by and through the Haitian Revolution and the contemporary struggle for abolition, Taylor also works on themes of social reproduction and family abolition.
Key publications
Taylor Borowetz (2023) After property? The Haitian Revolution, racial capitalism, and the foundation for a universal right to freedom from enslavement
The International Journal of Human Rights, DOI: 10.1080/13642987.2023.2283533, Taylor Borowetz, (2021).
Commissioned Book Review: Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Maria Paula Meneses, Knowledges Born in the Struggle: Constructing the Epistemologies of the Global South.
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