Christopher Beilings is a PhD candidate in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. His areas of research interest include critical theory, political subjectivity and post-apartheid politics. He is a fellow at the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand as well as the Interdisciplinary Center for Global South Studies at Tübingen University. He is also the author of the recently published paper, Emergency Continued: The Problematic of a Liminal Subjectivity.