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Françoise Vergès
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06-05-2024
Is a writer, independent curator and antiracist and decolonial feminist activist. Though her publications show a wide area of interests, she focuses on the fabrication of consent and dissent, the understanding of systems of racial and gendered domination, systemic violence, the afterlives of slavery and colonialism and resistances. Her recent publications are Programme de désordre absolu. Décoloniser le musée, (2023), A Feminist Theory of Violence (2022), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), De la violence coloniale dans l’espace public (2021), The Wombs of Women, Race, Capital, Feminism (2020) and Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black. Conversations with Françoise Vergès (2020). Following a BA (San Diego, 1986) and a PhD (Berkeley, 1995) she taught at Sussex in 1996 and Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2000-2007. She was President of the French National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery 2008-2012 and project advisor for documenta 11.
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