Towards a decolonial feminist intervention: ethics and perspectives of Françoise Vergès

ABSTRACT

In this conversation with Françoise Vergès, a French political scientist, historian, film producer, independent curator, activist, and public educator, Vergès talks about postcolonial studies and decolonial feminism. While the focus has been on Verges’ book A Decolonial Feminism, other aspects such as civilizational feminism, a feminist critical decolonial pedagogy, and ethical nuances have been discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Women
• decolonial feminism
• Global South
• civilizational feminism pedagogy

Notes on the interviewee

Françoise Vergès is an activist and public educator. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of many books including A Decolonial Feminism and Wombs of Women.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Notes on contributors

Goutam Karmakar

Goutam Karmakar is an NRF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa. He is one of the editors of the Routledge book series on South Asian literature. His areas of research are South Asian literature and culture, Women and Gender Studies, Postcolonial studies, and Ecological studies. His forthcoming and recently published edited volumes are Nation and Narration: Hindi Cinema and the Making and Remaking of National Consciousness (Routledge, forthcoming), The Poetry of Jibanananda Das: Aesthetics, Poetics, and Narratives (Routledge, forthcoming), Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature (Routledge, forthcoming), The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian Literature (Routledge, 2022), and Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism (Routledge, 2021). He has also published articles in over a dozen academic journals. He can be reached at [email protected]