@trishedges.bsky.social
Postdoc working with phenomenological approaches to group identity, normalisation, sexuality, gender, and other bits. they/them.
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Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities -- Tris Hedges
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Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities -- Tris Hedges
Article Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract in Alt
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Article
Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities
[by] Tris Hedges
Published online: 22 Dec 2025
ABSTRACT
Upon entering Harlem for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir recounts how ‘a force pulls me back … fear. Not mine but that of others – the fear of all those whites who never take the risk of going to Harlem’. But of what are they fearful? The risk, Beauvoir describes, is not that of an external danger but themselves. These passages detail the phenomenon of having one’s collective being, one’s unity to certain others, revealed to oneself through a third-person encounter. In this paper, (2) I make sense of Beauvoir’s reflections through Gerda Walther’s social ontology, (3) to show how we consistently undergo pre-reflective we-experiences qua social identities. (4) I then demonstrate how this pre-reflective ‘we’ is made reflective by the external Third; and (5) how we may reflectively disavow ourselves of this ‘we’ when we find it uncomfortable, alienating, and inappropriate. These novel inroads into the phenomenology of collective intentionality leads me (6) to argue that while members of dominant groups enjoy the privilege of having their collective being remain in the unremarkable background, members who inhabit social identities that are stigmatised and oppressed are systematically forced back upon themselves through third-person encounters.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7oz7gjqbwpc2g5gzavod5axu/bafkreidduapdnpelrutwzxjdgozo3u2zrhsphfpnbbocxtawgutglfxqce@jpeg)
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Recently Available Online:
Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities -- Tris Hedges
Article Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract in Alt
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Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities -- Tris Hedges
Article Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Abstract in Alt
#philsky
To round off the year, my essay 'Third-Person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the 'We' of Social Identities' was just published yesterday! This formed part of my dissertation and takes Beauvoir's trip to Harlem as a point of departure for a (nonideal) social ontology:
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
Third-person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the ‘We’ of Social Identities
Upon entering Harlem for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir recounts how ‘a force pulls me back … fear. Not mine but that of others – the fear of all those whites who never take the risk of going t...
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
To round off the year, my essay 'Third-Person Encounters: Beauvoir, Walther, and the 'We' of Social Identities' was just published yesterday! This formed part of my dissertation and takes Beauvoir's trip to Harlem as a point of departure for a (nonideal) social ontology:
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
doi.org/10.1080/0967...
My essay 'The Affective Enforcement of Heterosexism: Self-Doubt and Queer Desire' has been published this month! In it I parse out two different forms of self-doubt and examine the role they play in maintaining a heteronormative status quo. You can find it here open access: doi.org/10.5206/fpq/...
The Affective Enforcement of Heterosexism: Self-Doubt and Queer Desire
| Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
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December 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My essay 'The Affective Enforcement of Heterosexism: Self-Doubt and Queer Desire' has been published this month! In it I parse out two different forms of self-doubt and examine the role they play in maintaining a heteronormative status quo. You can find it here open access: doi.org/10.5206/fpq/...
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Today’s Idea by @trishedges.bsky.social draws on existential and social phenomenology to examine the shift from ‘we’ to ‘us’, showing how the first-person plural is shaped by power, social identity and the gaze of others – and how an ‘us’ can constrain, yet also galvanise collective action
The existential struggle between being a ‘we’ and an ‘us’ | Psyche Ideas
Sartre’s phenomenology reveals the shift from subject to object (and back) is not just grammar. It is a matter of power
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November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today’s Idea by @trishedges.bsky.social draws on existential and social phenomenology to examine the shift from ‘we’ to ‘us’, showing how the first-person plural is shaped by power, social identity and the gaze of others – and how an ‘us’ can constrain, yet also galvanise collective action
I'm not very good at this social media business, but today feels like a significant enough milestone: As of today I'll be a postdoc working between the University of Copenhagen and the Affective Societies Centre at FU Berlin for a Carlsberg-funded project on the 'Politics and Affects of Doubt'!
August 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I'm not very good at this social media business, but today feels like a significant enough milestone: As of today I'll be a postdoc working between the University of Copenhagen and the Affective Societies Centre at FU Berlin for a Carlsberg-funded project on the 'Politics and Affects of Doubt'!
In other news, happy publication day to this one! degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
A phenomenological contribution to an upcoming special issue on Katharine Jenkins‘ concept of ontic injustice.
A phenomenological contribution to an upcoming special issue on Katharine Jenkins‘ concept of ontic injustice.
Styles of Social Kinds
In this paper I initiate an important dialogue between the phenomenology of social perception and analytic social ontological discussions of how our perception of others (and concurrent conferrals of ...
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July 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
In other news, happy publication day to this one! degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
A phenomenological contribution to an upcoming special issue on Katharine Jenkins‘ concept of ontic injustice.
A phenomenological contribution to an upcoming special issue on Katharine Jenkins‘ concept of ontic injustice.
Love receiving a revise and resubmit in which the first referee‘s comments begins with „… I think it can be published almost as it is.“ 🫠
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Love receiving a revise and resubmit in which the first referee‘s comments begins with „… I think it can be published almost as it is.“ 🫠
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I am co-editing an issue of Puncta with Chris Jingchao Ma on Critical Trans Phenomenology! Submissions are due July 15th. Here is the CFP with full details: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...
CFP: Critical Trans Phenomenology
| Puncta: Journal of Critical Phenomenology
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April 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I am co-editing an issue of Puncta with Chris Jingchao Ma on Critical Trans Phenomenology! Submissions are due July 15th. Here is the CFP with full details: puncta.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/pu...
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queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
queen did not mince a single word www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hello Bluesky! Here is a brief description of the project. In the next 3 years, I will explore topics like community, loneliness, home, or self-narration in connection with urban affective justice.
January 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Hello Bluesky! Here is a brief description of the project. In the next 3 years, I will explore topics like community, loneliness, home, or self-narration in connection with urban affective justice.
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Bart Engelen and I were interviewed for Univers about the book Extravagance and Misery, which we wrote with Alan Thomas. You can read the interview here:
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And buy the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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And buy the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Capitalism and the wealth gap: why does inequality make us unhappy?
Status anxiety, shame, and the meritocratic illusion. In the new book Extravagance and Misery by philosophers Alfred Archer, Bart Engelen, and Alan Thomas, the
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January 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Bart Engelen and I were interviewed for Univers about the book Extravagance and Misery, which we wrote with Alan Thomas. You can read the interview here:
universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...
And buy the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...
And buy the book here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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There's only one week left to apply for the open postdoc position in my ERC project on the social ontology of social cohesion! Reach out if you have any questions about eligibility, the project, or the department (which is great!).
#PhilJobs #Philosophy #SocialOntology #SocialCohesion #ERC
#PhilJobs #Philosophy #SocialOntology #SocialCohesion #ERC
Postdoctoral position in social philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at School of Culture and Society - Philosophy and History of Ideas, Dept. of, Aarhus University
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January 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
There's only one week left to apply for the open postdoc position in my ERC project on the social ontology of social cohesion! Reach out if you have any questions about eligibility, the project, or the department (which is great!).
#PhilJobs #Philosophy #SocialOntology #SocialCohesion #ERC
#PhilJobs #Philosophy #SocialOntology #SocialCohesion #ERC
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Less than a month left to submit to EPSSE in Paris!
The next EPSSE conference will be in Paris, on 13th to 15th June 2025—locally organised by a great team at Panthéon-Sorbonne University. The call for abstracts (individual papers, panels, symposia) is open until 7th January. More information here ⬇️ #philsky #philosophy www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
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December 9, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Less than a month left to submit to EPSSE in Paris!
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Just in case anyone tries to tell you philosophy isn’t useful…
Tonight I’ll be raising a glass to @manongarcia.bsky.social, whose work on consent was cited in the closing arguments of the Pelicot trial in France this week as a promise of a better world.
« Nous sommes en réalité à la croisée des chemins » 🥂
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« Nous sommes en réalité à la croisée des chemins » 🥂
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Viols de Mazan : un procès pour le futur - L'Humanité
Au tribunal d’Avignon, les avocats de Gisèle Pelicot et de ses enfants ont plaidé, sobrement mais puissamment, pour les générations à venir, afin d’amorcer le changement des mental...
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November 23, 2024 at 7:10 AM
Just in case anyone tries to tell you philosophy isn’t useful…