Garnet Kindervater

My primary research and teaching interests rest where contemporary politics, human geography, and critical philosophy meet. I navigate this interdisciplinary space by drawing upon writing from contemporary political theory, security studies, materialism, political economy, and cultural studies. My current book manuscript, Catastrophe and Human Survival: A Theory of Catastrophism, considers the presumption of human precariousness when making reference to future catastrophes. I have several articles in various stages of completion, ranging in topic from catastrophe and political rationality; Enlightenment humanism, progress, and climate change; biopolitics and capital; and ontology and vitalist materialism in political thought.