About

Bram J. De Smet holds a background in Robotic Engineering and a Master’s degree in International Conflict and Security from the University of Kent. Currently a doctoral researcher at Tampere University (TAU), his research delves into the slow erasure of Indigenous identity, agency, and epistemes, examining these processes as forms of genocide by attrition perpetuated through body politics and biopower.

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Academic fields of interest: anarchism, feminism, necropolitics, torture, gender, grievances, violence, bio/body politics, hope, resistance, vulnerability, settler colonialism, decolonization, slow erasure, weaponsisation of care, genocide by attrition.

ORCID: 0000-0002-4364-6827

Board member: European Peace Research Association & International Peace Research Association

Teaching

  • Alternative ways of building inclusive peace and community: Forty-nine shades of anarchism as part of Everyday Peace and Conflict in a Complex World (PEACE046g) at Tampere University’s MA in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research.
  • The subvisible erasure of indigenous episteme, identity and agency in settler colonialism: The case of Palestine as part of Racism, Borders and Gender (RRS22) at the University of Turku. This lecture introduces my concepts of Slow Erasure and the Weaponsisation of Care.

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