Simone Bignall, PhD

Simone Bignall, PhD, is Senior Researcher in Jumbunna Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures at the University of Technology in Sydney.

Simone completed her doctoral degree in Philosophy at the University of Sydney in 2007 and taught Political Philosophy courses in Australia and Europe before taking up her current research-focussed role at UTS in 2019. Simone’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 academic work is guided by a particular interest in the philosophical lineage from Spinoza to Deleuze and traverses posthumanist critical theory and continental philosophy, anarchism, colonial and postcolonial politics and collaborative cultures of social transformation, theories of embodiment and agency in complex systems, feminism and ethics.

Simone’s book publications include Postcolonial Agency: Critique and Constructivism (2010), Deleuze and the Postcolonial (2010), Agamben and Colonialism (2012), Deleuze and Pragmatism (2014), and Posthuman Ecologies (2019). With Larissa Behrendt, Daryle Rigney and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Simone is founding co-editor of the book series Indigenous Nations and Collaborative Futures, published by Rowman and Littlefield International. She also co-edits the RLI series on  Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia.