Dr. G.K. (Gulzaar) Barn
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Philosophy and Public Affairs
Area of expertise: ethics and political philosophy
Visiting address
- Oude Turfmarkt 141
Postal address
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Postbus 94201
1090 GE Amsterdam
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Background
Dr. Gulzaar Barn joined the philosophy department at the University of Amsterdam in 2022. Since obtaining her PhD (DPhil) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, she has held positions at the University of Birmingham, King's College London, and Utrecht University. She specialises in political philosophy and context-sensitive ethical inquiry. Her research centres on topics in global justice and health, such as embodied labour and exploitation, feminist critiques of reproductive technologies, and the history and practice of (neo)eugenics and race science.
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Publications
2024
- Barn, G. K. (2024). A right to gestate? In International Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Uterus Transplantation (Elgar Studies in Health and the Law). Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Barn, G. K. (2024). Review of Jon D. Wisman’s The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics.
2023
Barn, G. (2023). Exploitation and Domination in Application. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 16(1), 56–68. https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v16i1.757 [details]
2022
- Barn, G. K. (2022). The Ethics and Politics of Sexual Preference. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
2020
- Barn, G. K. (2020). Uterus Transplants and the Potential for Harm: Lessons From Commercial Surrogacy. Developing World Bioethics.
2019
- Barn, G. K., & Widdows, H. (2019). Feminism and the demands of beauty. In Ethics and the Contemporary World Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
2016
- Barn, G. K. (2016). Can Medical Interventions Serve as ‘Criminal Rehabilitation’? Neuroethics.
2023
- Barn, G. K. (2023). Reproductive technologies. Web publication or website, Aeon.
2020
- Barn, G. K. (2020). Mary Warnock. In The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women Unbound.
Media appearance
- Barn, G. (09-07-2020). Womb transplants. BBC Woman's Hour. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/m000knhq
- Barn, G. (22-05-2019). Domestic Servants, Surrogacy. BBC Free Thinking. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p069x5h7
- Barn, G. (04-04-2019). BBC Free Thinking - The Essay. Shopping Around the Baby Market. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003t1w
- Barn, G. (12-06-2018). Arts & Ideas. BBC Free Thinking. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p069x5h7
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Barn, G. (2023). Exploitation and Domination in Application. Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 16(1), 56–68.