Pubications
Semiotics and Performative Democracy
As a scholar of semiotics and performative governance, my work examines how power communicates, conceals, and legitimizes itself through language, imagery, and institutional ritual. I study the symbolic architecture of policy — the words, narratives, and visual cues that signal progress — and interrogate how these signifiers often mask structural inequities and political performance rather than resolve them.
Across academic research and public scholarship, I analyze governance as a communicative act: a space where states perform accountability, gender equity, and democratic inclusion through carefully curated language and public gestures. My publications challenge surface-level narratives and reveal the semiotic strategies that sustain symbolic compliance while communities continue to navigate inequity, exclusion, and unmet promises.
