Callum Stewart
PhD
Callum Stewart is a social and political theorist currently undertaking a PhD in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Callum's research theorises the reproduction and transformation of social and political relations, with a particular interest in temporality. His research engages critically with decolonial theory, settler colonial studies, sovereign Indigenous theory, and queer theory. Callum completed his MPhil in Sociology (Sociology of Marginality and Exclusion) at the University of Cambridge, and his BA (Hons) at the University of Melbourne.
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Thesis
Race, Nation, and Age: theorising the limits of White settler futurism
Decolonial theory and settler colonial studies argue that modernity is defined by the colonial structures of race and nation. My research seeks to shift critical attention towards the possibilities of decolonial futures by asking, 'when is the end of modernity?'. I explore this question through consideration of the colonial temporal structure which I refer to as White settler futurism in global and Australian contexts. White settler futurism works to affirm colonial structures of race, nation, and age. It renders the White settler future of modernity as the only possible future. My research aims to reorient White settlers towards decolonial futures.
Research interests
- Decolonisation
- Settler colonialism
- Race
- Childhood
- Queer theory
Supervisors
- Elizabeth Strakosch
- Hamza Bin Jehangir