Josh Platzky Miller

Dr. Josh Platzky Miller is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), with prior affiliations at the University of the Free State and University of KwaZulu-Natal. He earned his BSocSci(Hons) from the University of Cape Town and holds an MPhil and PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge.

• Research Interests: Social movements, decolonization, social epistemology, global philosophy historiography, and educational experiments.
• Key Contributions: Comparative analysis of South African and Brazilian student uprisings; critique of Eurocentric philosophy narratives; exploration of digital governance during crises.

His recent publications examine transnational student activism, entangled histories of philosophy, and the political dimensions of educational experiments in Brazil and Rojava. He employs Sartrean and Fanonian theories to analyze the role of imagination in social change.

Current work focuses on reimagining knowledge production through decolonial and intercultural lenses, challenging the concept of 'Western Philosophy' as a political fabrication.