Staff profile

Dr Alice Finden is an Assistant Professor of International Politics. She completed her PhD at SOAS, University of London where she carried out a feminist and postcolonial inquiry into the justification and normalisation of state violence within counter terrorism law and policy in Britain and Egypt. 

Her work examines the colonial histories and presents of counter terrorism in order to interrogate the colonial production of ‘extremist’ communities. She examines how the colonial subjugation of gendered, racialised and classed communities as ‘vulnerable’ to ‘extremism’ is central to the development of counter terrorism as we know it today. Her work has engaged decolonial feminist methods such as counter-mapping as a means to engage participants in affective ways that present alternative histories and futures. Alice is interested in investigating methods and methodologies as a means to tell us new stories about global geopolitics. 

Alice enjoys developing new decolonial pedagogical methods and is currently involved in a project that engages students with archival spaces. 

• colonialism and empire
• critical terrorism studies
• feminist and queer theories
• post-colonial theory
• qualitative methods including archival and interviews
• violence and its normalisation

Chapter in book

• Chukwuma, K. (in press). Postcolonial Spaces and Critical Terrorism Studies: Towards a Dialogic Research Agenda. In A. E. Finden, C. Yebra López, T. Ike, U. Gaudino, & S. Oando (Eds.), Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies: Gaps and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. London: Routledge
• Finden, A. E. (in press). Colonial Law and Normal Violence: The Racialised, Gendered and Classed Development of Counter Terrorism. In Global Counterterrorism: A Decolonial Approach. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Edited book

• Finden, A. E., Yebra López, C., Ike, T., Gaudino, U., & Oando, S. (Eds.). (2024). Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies Gaps and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge

Journal Article

• Finden, A. E., & Dutta, S. (2024). Counterterrorism, political anxiety and legitimacy in postcolonial India and Egypt. Critical Studies on Terrorism, https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2304908
• Finden, A. E. (2023). Counter-mapping the archive: A decolonial feminist research method. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2023.2285759
• Finden, A. (2021). Hygiene, Morality and the Pre-Criminal: Genealogies of Suspicion from Twentieth Century British-Occupied Egypt. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1923189
• Finden, A. (2018). Active Women and Ideal Refugees: Dissecting Gender, Identity and Discourse in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps. Feminist Review, 120(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0139-2