Doerthe Rosenow

Doerthe’s research is interdisciplinary, crossing over the boundaries of International Relations, cultural studies, Indigenous and Native studies, anthropology, human geography and continental philosophy. She is particularly interested in the study of Indigenous and radical Black thought in relation to settler colonialism in IR and beyond, and, most recently, in how to move understandings of (global) colonialism(s) beyond unitary and homogenous notions grounded in predominantly Anglo-American experiences, towards an understanding of it as complex and heterogeneous. She has a particular interest in analysing what she conceptualises as 'German colonial innocence', which she makes sense of through the lens of Black, Indigenous and decolonial thought.

Previously Doerthe worked on the theorisation and analysis of political struggle in relation to understandings of nature, particularly from perspectives that engage notions of materiality and decoloniality. Her book Un-making Environmental Activism: Beyond Modern/Colonial Binaries in the GMO Controversy was published by Routledge in 2018. 

Together with her colleague Lara Montesinos Coleman from the University of Sussex Doerthe has also worked on how to (re-)conceptualise power and domination through the practice of and theorisation of power in political struggle.

• Indigenous thought and politics in settler colonies (particularly North America)
• Theories and politics of race/racism and anti-racist activism
• Radical Black Thought
• Decolonial thought and decolonial International Relations
• German colonial history and present, particularly in relation to North America
• The global colonial present beyond the Anglosphere