Phoebe Martin is a Postdoctoral Research Associate (Gender and IR) in the Department of War Studies working on forced disappearance and reproductive harm in Peru, as part of the ERC-funded project ‘Relational Harm’ led by Dr Rebekka Friedman. Previously she completed a postdoc with the Visual and Embodied Methodologies Network at KCL examining the use of creative methods to research sexual harassment and resistance to gender-based violence. Her research focuses broadly on gendered violence, and the role of art and creative strategies in researching, resisting, and challenging it.

She completed her PhD in 2022 at University College London, looking at how feminist activists in Peru use creative interventions around gender violence and reproductive justice. These actions, including art, performance, and audiovisual media create new spaces for social and cultural change in difficult political contexts. Her work has been published in Signs and the Bulletin of Latin American Research. She is co-editor of Decolonising Andean Identities: Andinxs, Activism and Social change (UCL Press) and her monograph Visual and Embodied Politics: Feminist Activism and Art in Peru is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic.

Research

• Feminist activism
• Reproductive justice
• Art and activism
• Visual and embodied politics and methods
• Latin American feminism

Phoebe's PhD research looked at how feminist activists in Peru use creative interventions around gender violence and reproductive justice. These actions, including art, performance, and audiovisual media create new spaces for social and cultural change in difficult political contexts. Beyond this, her research has looked at the intersections of art and feminist activism, particularly reproductive rights activism.

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