Dr. Victoria L. Klinkert is an anthropologist interested in decolonial theory, critical whiteness studies and abolitionisms. She is currently a post doctoral researcher at the University of St Gallen, where she is researching notions of reparations and responsibility in the afterlives of slavery. Victoria completed her PhD at SOAS, in which she conducted an ethnography on white ignorance within an elite university in the UK as well as within British anthropology itself. She has published on her research, as well as on decolonising ethnographies and anthropology (with Prof Raminder Kaur) in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and Darkmatter as well as in Teaching Anthropology (with Zouhair Hammana and the River and Fire Collective). She is currently working on her monograph about imperial ignorance.
List of publications:
Klinkert, V. L. (2023). 'Verantwortungsbewusstsein – On German Responsibility'. Allegra Lab. https://allegralaboratory.net/verantwortungsbewusstsein-on-german-responsibility/
Klinkert, V. L. (2022). Toppled Statues: From Catalysis to Catharsis. Darkmatter Hub (Beta). Retrieved from https://darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org/pub/2mmzmby9
Hammana, Z., & Klinkert, V. L. (2021). Glitching the University Machine. Teaching Anthropology, 10(4), 36-46.
The River & Fire Collective, Pattathu, A., Barnett-Naghshineh, O., Diallo, O.-K., Miskow Friborg, N., Hammana, Z., Van den Berg, L., Camufingo, A., Klinkert, V.L., Judge, A., Chaudhuri-Brill, S., Fukuzawa, S., Abrahams, N. and Ferrier, J. (2021). The Fires Within Us and the Rivers We Form. Teaching Anthropology, [online] 10(4), pp.92–109. doi:10.22582/ta.v10i4.627.
Klinkert, V.L. (2021). Humbling anthropology - Ego reflexivus and White ignorance. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 11(1), pp.309–318. doi:10.1086/713884.
Kaur, R., & Klinkert, V. L. (2021). Decolonizing ethnographies. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 11(1), 246-255.
Klinkert, VL. (2020). Review of The Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations, by E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, and P. Daley. Migration and Society 3(1), 317-31
Blog: Klinkert, V. L. (2020) ‘On falling: white ignorance, anthropology and systematic racism’, available at: https://study.soas.ac.uk/on-falling-white-ignorance-anthropology-and-systemic-racism/