Dr Peter Bansel is a sociologist and member of Sexualities and Gender Research in the School of Sciences at Western Sydney University. His scholarship and research interests respond to political questions about how social differences are made, not given, and how thinking differently about difference might inform both a diagnosis of the present and anticipate future possibilities for human becoming.
In contesting taken for granted accounts of what it means to be human, natural, or normal, Peter’s work explores how the social world of people, and the material world of things, are interrelated. This intertwining of worlds generates conversations about the body as matter, which bodies come to matter, and how we might reorient our thinking about what matters for our collective survival.