All Outputs (3)

Why (and how) statues matter (2024)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. J. (online). Why (and how) statues matter. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241308112

In this paper, I consider the import of the metaphysics of statues to the decolonizing statues debate. On the one hand, this may seem an odd starting point: after all, the issues surrounding decolonizing statues are political, moral and, perhaps, aes... Read More about Why (and how) statues matter.

Decolonising the Curriculum: common-sense, threshold concepts and epistemic injustice (2024)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (online). Decolonising the Curriculum: common-sense, threshold concepts and epistemic injustice. Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01354-3

In On the Affective Threshold of Power and Privilege (2023), Julie Rattray reflects on the impact of decolonising the curriculum (DtC) on Threshold Concept (TC) theory. In this paper, I focus on student troublesomeness in the context of DtC—troubleso... Read More about Decolonising the Curriculum: common-sense, threshold concepts and epistemic injustice.

An Analytic of Eeriness (2024)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2024). An Analytic of Eeriness. British Journal of Aesthetics, 64(4), 483-504. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayad046

In this paper, I analyse the phenomenon of eeriness as a kind of strange aesthetic experience. Beginning with Fisher’s insight (The Weird and the Eerie, 2017) that we can distinguish weirdness and eeriness from uncanniness, I offer an original accoun... Read More about An Analytic of Eeriness.