Mauve Perle Tahat, PhD
Autotheory, architecture, and the afterlives of feeling.
social epistemology
no such thing as neutral ground.
I’m a social epistemologist, which mostly means I ask:
Who gets to know things?
Who gets believed?
And who gets left out?
I study haunted institutions, environmental grief, strange objects, public memory, and the politics of space.
My work lives in the overlap between scholarship, storytelling, and survival. I’m drawn to things that won’t stay buried (especially the ones we’ve paved over, abandoned, or thrown away).
I write for kindred thinkers, students, artists, and curious outsiders. The best theory is porous, a little messy, and rooted in lived experience. I believe in legacy passed down in whispers, notebooks, and glowing screens.
Spatial Residue: Plastic Affects and Configurations of Place (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), my latest book, is a collision between personal memory, cultural myth, and physical geography. Subtle Body Horror: An Anthology About Having a Body, edited by Kailey Tedesco and myself, is due out in 2026 as well with North Meridian Press. My first monograph, Ecologies of Incarceration: Carceral Discard Studies in the Anthropocene (Lexington Books, 2024) is available wherever books are sold and featured in university libraries worldwide.
