Shona Hunter

Shona is Reader and Research Degrees Director in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. She is a member of the Centre for Race Education and Decoloniality and the founder of WhiteSpaces. Her scholarship covers welfare politics and governance, state practices, identities and the broader material-cultural-affective politics through which ‘the’ state(s) is enacted nationally and globally as a global colonial formation. Her publications include Power, Politics and the Emotions: Impossible Governance (Routledge, 2015) and the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (with Christi van der Westhuizen, Routledge, 2021). For more see www.whitespaces.org.uk