The event introduces the Canadian-Mexican author, Dr. Mónica Sánchez-Flores, an her Book Decolonizing Bodies; a Radical Relational Approach to Racial Healing and Worlding Shared Humanity, which explores processes of racialization through decolonial and radical relational lenses. In weaving together theory and personal stories, Sánchez-Flores examines in her new book how human bodies and whole nations are racialized by late capitalism’s colonial legacies. She will read to us sections of chapters 3 and 4.
In conversation with Dr. María Cárdenas, Mónica Sánchez-Flores will then introduce Radical Relational Individuality (RRI), a relational perspective on embodied humans and what she calls a “decolonial golem.” Together, they will explore what Sánchez-Flores means, when she refers to the persistence of systemic racism as global white ignorance, structural gaslighting, and the need for racial healing for everybody.
Dr. Mónica J. Sánchez-Flores is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Environment, Culture and Society (ECS) in Thompson Rivers University (TRU). Mónica is Co-Leader with Christopher Powell of the International School of Radical Relationism (ISRR) (https://isrr.trubox.ca/) and the Relational Sociology research cluster of the Canadian Sociological Association. Her research focuses on the social construction of the processes of racialization, radical relational social theory, decolonial theory, political theory, multiculturalism and settlement, mindfulness, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) training (see https://droptheguilt.trubox.ca/), globalization and cosmopolitanism. She has published a number of book chapters and articles on this and is the author of the books Political Philosophy for the Global Age (2005) and Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Expanding the Boundaries of the Individual (2010), and with Rebeccah Nelems co-author of the forthcoming article: “The Case for a Radically Relational (Non-Anthropocentric) Democracy” in the journal Democratic Theory (published by Cambridge University Press). Her recent book Decolonizing Bodies; a Radical Relational Approach to Racial Healing and Worlding Shared Humanity was published in January 2026.
Welcome: Dr. Johanna Leinius (CGC)
Moderation: Dr. María Cárdenas (Goethe University)
Organized by: CGC and María Cárdenas (Goethe University)
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