Dr Charles des Portes
- Position: Visiting Fellow in Political Theory
- Areas of expertise: Political Theory; Phenomenology; Decolonial Thought; Hannah Arendt; Frantz Fanon; Feminist Theory; Imperialism.
- Email: C.desPortes@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: Twitter | ORCID
Profile
I teach political theory at POLIS, and I am a visiting fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Political Theory. I specialise in political philosophy, phenomenology, and decolonial thought.
Research interests
My PhD research was about the coloniality of freedom and an alternative understanding of freedom based on Hannah Arendt’s and Frantz Fanon’s phenomenology. Along those lines, my research focuses on a decolonial phenomenology and an existential decolonial political theory. Accordingly, I argue for a political theory that puts politics as first philosophy. My research is committed to a phenomenological investigation of political phenomena that happen in what Fanon called the ‘zone of nonbeing’ with the aim of providing an alternative understanding of political concepts such as freedom, liberation, or peace.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>Qualifications
- PhD in Political Theory, University of Leeds
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Contemporary Political Theory