Benedetta Zocchi is a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London (UK). She previously completed a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at LUISS University (Italy) and an MPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford (UK). Benedetta is interested in post-colonial legacies, de-colonial thinking and critical migration studies. Her past work explored the social and political construction of colonial amnesia in Italy and the discursive re-activations of colonial consciousness in Italy, France and the UK. Her current research focuses on practices of European coloniality at EU borders, with particular attention to the different realities of exclusion and marginalization on the frontier between BiH and Croatia. Her intellectual approach is informed by the intersection between political activism, social engagement and critical scholarship.