Emily Beausoleil

Emily Beausoleil is a Senior Lecturer of Politics at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington and Editor-in-Chief of Democratic Theory journal. As a political theorist, she explores the conditions, challenges, and creative possibilities for democratic engagement in diverse and unequal societies. Connecting affect, critical democratic, postcolonial, neuroscience, and performance scholarship, Beausoleil’s work explores how we might realize democratic ideals of voice and listening across difference in concrete terms. Her work has been published in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Theory & Event, New Political Science, and Constellations, as well as in various books.