David L Martin

Biography

I am a committed interdisciplinary scholar with expertise in the fields of politics, art history, postcolonial theory, cultural geography, medical humanities and the history of religion. Far from distracted wanderings, these interdisciplinary concerns coalesce sharply around questions of politics and vision. In particular I am concerned with the embodied nature of vision in the formation of agency, how art, landscape and the body interact in subject formation, and how, through genealogies of vision, we can arrive at far-reaching critiques of the so-called rationality B.A. (Hons) Politics and Fine Arts, University of Melbourne Ph.D. (University of Melbourne)

Research Interest

I am particularly interested in the notion of counter-mapping both as a metaphor for decolonizing knowledge formations, as well as literally in terms of new ways of conceiving and representing space which disrupt the normalizing effects of systems of power/knowledge. More than just an effort to put back what the map erases, I am interested in how counter-mapping can be an attempt to reconfigure the political through/against representation, and how this encounters and evolves through processes of the everyday.