Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
Decolonial Mourning: Building the Conviviality Infrastructure Resisting Necropolitical Social Reprodution
This talk proposes to understand decolonial mourning as an articulation of resistance angainst coloniality-migration necropolitics. It discusses the underside of social reproduction, necropolitics, by arguing that it is constitutive of social reproduction. Though necropolitical social reproduction might sound like an oxymoron, thinking about it in this context is helpful in understanding the relationship between the systemic creation and destruction of life, here in particular the systematic letting die and killing of colonized, feminized, sexualized, disabled, racialized, migrantized, impoverished and abandoned bodies. The argument will be developed in four steps. First, I will engage in an analysis of violence, focusing on feminicide, in the Argentinean movement #Ni Una Menos through its politics of mourning. In a second step, following the political theorist Gladys Tzul Tzul, we will engage with communal resistance to genocidal and extractivist racial capitalism. Finally, we will turn our attention to the current coloniality-migration conjuncture in Germany by thinking through decolonial mourning as building a conviviality infrastructure, resisting necropolitical social reproduction.
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Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a Professor in Sociology with a focus on Culture and Migration at the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Previously to this position, she was Professor in General Sociology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Moreover, she is an Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Visiting Professor in CRISHET – Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. In 2020/21, she was a Digital Senior Fellow in Maria Sibylla Merian Centre: Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila), São Paulo. She has been an early and staunch advocate of decolonial critique in the German-speaking world. More recently she has published the monographe Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons (Anthem 2023); and with Shirley Anne Tate the Palgrave Handbook in Critical Race and Gender (Palgrave 2022), with Rhoda Reddock Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and the Caribbean (Anthem, 2021) and with Pinar Tuzcu Migratischer Feminismus in der deutschen Frauenbewegung, 1985-2000 (assemblage 2021).
This event takes place in German.