Samia Mohammed
Towards a Critical Contemporary Theory of Freedom between
Necessity and Independence
Based on the observation that (political) interpretations of freedom are historically and currently characterized by contradictions, the dissertation project aims at systematically relating contradiction and freedom in order to propose a contemporary critical-theoretical concept of freedom. Thinking together radical democratic theory, Afropessimism, and feminist perspectives on the Anthropocene is thought to enable a double perspective on acts of contradiction as practices of freedom on the one hand and on the manifold and potentially contradictory conditions and grounds of freedom on the other.
Research Interests
- Feminist theory
- Radical democratic theory
- Poststructuralist Theory
- Political Economy
- Theories and Utopias of Socialism
- Theories of Freedom
Vita
- 2019–2022
MA Political Science/Political Theory at the University of Bielefeld, Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M./TU Darmstadt
Master Thesis The Socialist Calculation Debate between Mastery of Nature and Emancipatory Promises: Democracy and Human Nature Relations in Socialist Utopias - 2015–2019
BA Political Science, Literature at the University of Bielefeld
Bachelor Thesis What culture is not – Ethnic Racism, Cultural Relativism and the Concept of Cultural Appropriation. An Analysis of Understandings of Culture in Rightwing and Leftwing Political Discourse - 2018
ERASMUS+ Semester at the University SciencesPo Bordeaux, France - 2016–2022
Student Assistant at University of Bielefeld, Faculty of Sociology, Department 4 Politics and Society
Publications
- 2024
Co-Editior of Zeitschrift Luxemburg Issue Zukunft mit Plan 01/2024. - 2024
Rabea Berfelde / Justus Henze / Samia Mohammed / Eva Völpel: “Für eine Linke mit Plan.” In: Zeitschrift Luxemburg 01/2024. - 2023
Zukunft jenseits des Marktes. Demokratie und gesellschaftliche Naturverhältnisse in sozialistischen Utopien. Baden-Baden: Nomos. - 2020
Arnold, Clara/Flügel-Martinsen, Oliver/Mohammed, Samia/Vasilache, Andreas (Eds.): Kritik in der Krise. Perspektiven politischer Theorie auf die Corona-Pandemie. [Critique in Crisis. Political Theory Perspectives on the Covid Pandemic.] Baden-Baden: Nomos. - 2020
Verletzliche Freiheit? Zur Kritik neoliberaler Freiheitsverständnisse in der Corona-Krise [Vulnerable Freedom? On the critique of neoliberal concepts of freedom in the Covid Crisis]. In: Arnold/Flügel-Martinsen/Mohammed/Vasilache (Hrsg.), Kritik in der Krise. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 33–47. - 2020
Arnold, Clara/Mohammed, Samia Einleitung: Kritisches Denken als gemeinsame Praxis [Introduction: Critical thinking as collective practice]. In: Arnold/Flügel-Martinsen/Mohammed/Vasilache (Hrsg.), Kritik in der Krise. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 7–13.
Talks, Workshops and Events
- 19.11.2024
Talk Fugitive Freedom als radikaler Gegenentwurf zu formaler Befreiung as part of the Colloquium on Political Theory, University of Bremen - 09.11.2024
Talk Planning for Freedom. Freedom Beyond Ecological Destruction in a Socialist Economy at the 21st Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS London - 25.10.2024
Panel Discussion Technologie und Planwirtschaft – Keine Lösung auf Knopfdruck in Sicht at the Festival Planstelle #1 – Blicke ins Mögliche. Science Fiction, Debatten, Spekulationen organized by Libertalia e.V. and Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brandenburg, Wachhaus Potsdam - 24.10.2024
Talk Freiheit und Luxus für alle – ohne Naturbeherrschung oder Technofuturismus?, Aquarium am Südblock Berlin - 14.05.2024
Talk Externalisierte Unfreiheit: “The Afterlives of Slavery” als Brennglas ungleicher Freiheit as part of the Colloquium on Political Theory, University of Bremen - 06.05.2024
Panel Future of Socialisation: Democracy and Planning as part of the workshop Socialisation and Social Theory organized by Kritische Theorie in Berlin, Humboldt-University of Berlin - 11.01.2024
Talk Das Klima des Sozialismus. Demokratische Planwirtschaft als Utopie heute, Kukoon Kulturzentrum Bremen - 16.11.2023
Panel Discussion Living with Contradictions as a Mixed-Race Person with Kwanza Muși Dos Santos, Deborah Ekoka and Nelson Sindze Wembe, Kukoon Kulturzentrum Bremen - 28.09.2023
Panel Freiheit und ihre Widersprüche. Widerspruchsoffenes Theoretisieren als Methode einer Freiheitstheorie der Gegenwart as part of the Congress Politische Theorie in Zeiten der Ungewissheit, University of Bremen - 27. – 29.09.2023
Co-Organizer of the International Congress Political Theory in Times of Uncertainty, University of Bremen