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Name: Devon Bailey
Location: B-Ring 708A Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Tel: 011 559 4942
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About Dr Devon Bailey
Dr Devon Bailey is a lecturer at the UJ Department of Philosophy. She completed her PhD titled: 鈥淭he Black South African Female Dancer: Analysing Somaesthetic and Sarkaesthetic Approaches to the Problem of Identity Politics鈥� at the 欧美福利100000 of Johannesburg.
Her research interests include themes of art and aesthetics, race, gender, social class, identity, and recognition as it pertains to the literature on identity politics, identity and self-knowledge, somaesthetics, sarkaesthetics, and phenomenology, as well as African philosophy, feminist theory, and performance theory.
Supervision areas: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art and Dance, African Philosophy, Identity Politics, Somaesthetics, Feminist Theory
Publications:
Bailey, D. (2021). 鈥淪elf-knowledge through Dance: Considering the Female Break Dancer in South Africa鈥� in Botha, C.F. (ed.) African Somaesthetics: Cultures, Feminisms, Politics. (Brill Studies in Somaesthetics, Volume 3). Leiden: Brill.
Bailey, D. (2023). 鈥淏lack Bodies in White Spaces: Considering the Black Female Ballet Dancer in South Africa.鈥� Contemporary Aesthetics Journal. USA. (forthcoming).
Bailey, D. (2024). 鈥淎nalysing Black Female Representation in the Arts through 鈥淟ucy Negro Redux.鈥� Special Issue (In Progress).
Bailey, D. (2024). 鈥淭he Indignity of the Poor Black South African.鈥� South African Journal of Philosophy. (In Progress).