Dr. Anna Rowlands is the St Hilda Associate Professor of Catholic Social Thought & Practice in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. She conducts research in the areas of forced migration, political theology, and Catholic social thought, and is interested in studies of Gillian Rose, Simone Weil, and Hannah Arendt. She is the author of Catholic Social Teaching: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Given the magnitude of the challenges we face the task of resistance remains a communal, provisional, necessarily (ie meaningfully) contradictory, broken labour shared between sites of theory and practice.