Kimberley Brayson
Co-Director of Centre for Gender Studies (Centre for Gender Studies)

Research

My research interests include Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Theory, Human Rights and Public Law, Equality Law, the European Convention on Human Rights, Islamic dress, feminism, colonialism, neoliberalism, precarity, solidarity, gender and the law, legal theory, political theory, autonomy, legal and political subjectivity, Islamic dress secularism, cosmopolitanism, Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action.

I am currently writing a monograph that interrogates human rights discourse using the Habermasian concept of distorted communication in conjunction with a feminist reading that pushes out from the complex subjectivities of the Islamic dress debate in the context of the European Convention on Human Rights. Concluding that human rights discourse is an inherently distorted discourse, I consider imagining new modes of socialisation where the standard of justice is complexity.