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Vikki Bell

is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her books include Culture and Performance (Berg, 2007) and The Art of Post-Dictatorship: Ethics and Aesthetics in Transitional Argentina (Routledge/Glasshouse, 2014). Widely published in peer-reviewed journals, her work has addressed questions of ethics, aesthetics, subjectivity and politics across the social sciences and theoretical humanities. Recently her focus has been cultural-aesthetic aspects of transitional justice and the promise of archives in Argentina, Chile and Colombia, funded by the ESRC, the Newton fund and the British Academy.
  • politics
  • violence
  • Think Art
  • performance
  • collective memory
  • justice
  • Human rights