“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

- Bertrand Russell

About Agnes Woolley

Agnes Woolley has a PhD in English Literature from the University of Leeds, and a book forthcoming entitled Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She has also published articles in the journals Textual Practice and Moving Worlds'.

Articles by Agnes Woolley

Life on the Margins: I Am Nasrine

Agnes Woolley 6 February 2013

Iranian-born filmmaker Tina Gharavi believes that film is a democratic tool which can be used to counter the misrepresentation of marginalised British identities. She spoke to Agnes Woolley about her feature, I Am Nasrine

Migrants and the State: an exclusive national family?

Agnes Woolley 28 January 2013

Agnes Woolley examines the implications of the UK Government’s new rules on family migration and argues that if families are the building blocks of a secure and stable nation, then the right to family life must be upheld

The politics of myth making: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'

Agnes Woolley 29 October 2012

Myths of human survival that evade questions of gender, race and social relations, won’t help us adapt in a world already being radically reshaped by environmental disasters and slow burning climate change, argues Agnes Woolley

Outsourcing responsibilities: Australia's punitive asylum regime

Agnes Woolley 12 September 2012

Australia’s return to offshore detention and processing centres for asylum seekers signals a renewed willingness to renege on its responsibilities to vulnerable others. Removing asylum seekers from national territory also removes the possibility of an ethical response to their plight, says Agnes Woolley

'Camps' the world over: questioning the legitimacy

Agnes Woolley 14 August 2012

Tania Bruguera’s new art project at Tate Modern initiates a debate about the continuing oppression of migrants and the possibility of transforming a momentary experience of oppression into an act of solidarity with their struggle for justice

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