Kathi Ammann
PhD
Gender Studies
Kathi Ammann is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, living and working on unceded Country of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung. Affiliated with the ‘History, Memory and Decolonial Futures Research Collective’, Kathi researches Black visual culture in the wake of German colonialism, genocide, and racial amnesia. |
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Thesis
On the Future of the Past - Colonial Echoes and Premature Black Death in the Wake of German Memory Culture
This PhD project mobilises the visual as a cultural narrative rooted in history to evince ways in which Black people in Germany are continually animated by fragmented and distorted historical processing. In the context of colonial amnesia, racial amnesia, and post-Holocaust remembrance, it researches the ontological infrastructures of race and its imbrication in collective memory, and how hegemonic remembering precipitates memorial displacement, marginalised identity, and premature death. Methodologically reliant on the minor, visual analysis, and hauntology, this project observes expressions and representations of Blackness to explore how Black life unfolds beyond the constraints of whiteness.
Research interests
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Whiteness Studies
- Abolitionism
- Memory Studies
- Decolonial Memory Activism