Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès is Chair of Global South(s) at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. Vergès grew up on Réunion Island and has lived in Algeria, Mexico, and the US, where she was a feminist anti-racist journalist and editor in the 1980s. She is an active teacher, scholar, and curator. Her PhD thesis Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage was published by Duke University Press in 1999. Subsequent publications include: A Decolonial Feminism (Pluto, 2021); The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (Duke University Press, 2020); Exposer l’esclavage: méthodologies et pratiques (ed.; Africultures no. 91, 2013); and L’Homme prédateur: Ce que nous enseigne l’esclavage sur notre temps (Albin Michel, 2011). She has written documentary films on Maryse Condé (2013) and Aimé Césaire (2011), and was a project advisor for documenta11 (2002) and the Triennale de Paris (2011).

Last updated 8 Nov 2024
  1. One Day, Freedom Will Be

    Françoise Vergès
     
    Art for Radical Ecologies Manifesto
    Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency
    Institute of Radical Imagination
    Climate
  2. Right now, today, we must say that Palestine is the centre of the world

    Françoise Vergès
     
    Towards Collective Study in Times of Emergency
    Past in the Present
  3. Climate: Our Right to Breathe

    Climate
    The Climate Forum
  4. Françoise Vergès – Breathing: A Revolutionary Act

    Françoise Vergès
     
    Climate
    Climate book launch
    HDK-Valand
  5. On the Politics of Extraction, Exhaustion and Suffocation

    Françoise Vergès
     
  6. Who is Speaking?

    Paola Bacchetta, Françoise Vergès
     
    Dialogues