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An antiracist theory of cleaning.Every year, capitalism produces tons of goods that go right to waste. Mining, deforestation, social inequalities, racism, extractivism, and hyper-consumption add to this fantastic amount of waste. How is their disappearance and invisibility organized? Who cleans the world? Upon whose bodies rests bourgeois and white cleanliness?Making the World Clean looks at the masses who daily clean the world to make it liva...

Proposes a thoroughgoing decolonization of the institution of the museum, with a focus on the Louvre

Gleichberechtigung hat es auf die Agenda liberaler westlicher Demokratien geschafft: Staatliche Instrumente wurden eigens geschaffen, um gegen geschlechterbasierte Diskriminierung vorzugehen und Frauen vor sexualisierten Übergriffen zu schützten. Gleichzeitig nutzen dieselben Staaten systematisch sexualisierte Gewalt als Mittel der Kriegsführung, profitieren von der Ausbeutung rassifizierter Frauen im Niedriglohnsektor und gehen mitunter gewal...

The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety

The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety

A vital feminist manifesto from one of our most inspiring political voices

***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** For too long feminism has been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. In this powerful manifesto, Francoise Verges argues that feminists should no longer be accomplices of capitalism, racism, colonialism and imperialism: it is time to fight the system that created the boss, built the prisons and polices women's bodies. A Decolonial Feminism grapples with the central issues in feminist debates t...

Dekolonial heißt, sich anzuschauen, inwieweit die Gesellschaft strukturell rassistisch und sexistisch bleibt, was sehr oft zusammengeht."Das dekoloniale Denken von Françoise Vergès ist intersektional. Vor dem Hintergrund des Weiterlebens der kolonialen Ideologie in den westlichen Gesellschaften kämpft es gegen Sexismus, Rassismus, Kapitalismus und Imperialismus. Es greift zurück auf die Bewegungen und Kämpfe der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre, insbe...

Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

Francoise Verges examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Reunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

Through a study of Reunion, this volume shows how family narrative and discourses around miscegenation are central to colonial history.

In Monsters and Revolutionaries Françoise Vergès analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, Vergès constructs a political and cultural history of the island’s relations with France. Woven throughout is Vergès’s own family history, which is intimately tied to the history of Ré...