Lead supervisor:
Dr Jan Ruzicka 
Start date: October 2017
Award: General
Subject Pathway:
Politics, International Relations and Global Language Based Area Studies
Thematic Cluster:
Rights and Governance Cluster
South Africa, technopolitics, and nuclear order
My research addresses the technopolitics of nuclear weapons and infrastructure in South Africa, during and after apartheid, the implications of nuclear technology for domestic South African politics, and the impact that South Africa's disarmament and non-proliferation practice has international nuclear order at large. Via an interdisciplinary research philosophy, I propose a dialogical relationship between assumed 'global' and 'local' levels of political activity in nuclear politics, aiming to transcend the scholarly divide between accounts of 'international' nuclear politics on one hand, and 'the social life of the bomb' on the other.