Lilian Mauthofer

I am a researcher and phd candidate in the research project “Counter-Communities’ Protection Practices and Security Utopias in Catastrophic Times” with Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski at University of Hamburg. My work engages with global political economy, postcolonial epistemologies, and social movement studies, focusing on abolitionist approaches to security, (counter-)violence, and the possibilities of imagining otherwise. I studied Philosophy and Economics at University of Bayreuth as well as Université Saint Joseph in Beirut and Political Science at University of Kassel. Alongside my academic work, I’m also the co-founder of Queer Analog Darkroom Berlin, a self-organized collective that engages with analog photography as a counter-practice to hegemonic narratives.