Françoise Vergès
Françoise Vergès (born 23 January 1952) is a French political scientist, historian, film producer, independent curator, activist and public educator. Her work focuses on postcolonial studies and decolonial feminism.
Vergès was born in Paris, grew up in Réunion and Algeria, before returning to Paris to study and become a journalist. She moved to the US in 1983, studying at the University of California, San Diego and Berkeley.
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Cynthia Holden Enloe is a feminist writer, theorist, and professor.
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She is best known for her work on gender and militarism and for her contributions to the field of feminist international relations. She has done pioneering feminist research into international politics and political economy, and has considerable contribution to building a more inclusive feminist scholarly community.
Cynthia Enloe was born in New York, New York and grew up in Manhasset, Long Island, a New York suburb. Her father was from Missouri and went to medical school in Germany from 1933 to 1936. Her mother went to Mills College and married Cynthia's father upon graduation.
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Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis is a freelance writer living in Philadelphia, teaching courses for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Her first book was Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, and her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, Boston Review, n+1, the London Review of Books and Salvage. Sophie studied English, Politics, Environment and Geography at Oxford, the New School, and Manchester University, and is now an unpaid visiting scholar at the Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Elsa Dorlin
Elsa Dorlin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and the author of The Matrix of Race and Sex, Genre, and Sexualities.
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Aimé Césaire
Martinique-born poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Fernand Césaire contributed to the development of the concept of negritude; his primarily surrealist works include The Miracle Weapons (1946) and A Tempest (1969).
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A francophone author of African descent. His books of include Lost Body, with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, and Return to My Native Land. He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism, a book of essays which has become a classic text of French political literature and helped establish the literary and ideological movement Negritude, a term Césaire defined as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our h -
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bell hooks (deliberately in lower-case; born Gloria Jean Watkins) was an African-American author, feminist, and social activist. Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern female perspective, she addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.
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Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
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Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, The End of America and Give Me Liberty. She has toured the world speaking to audiences of all walks of life about gender equality, social justice, and, most recently, the defense of liberty in America and internationally. She is the cofounder of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, which teaches ethics and empowerment to young women leaders, and is also a cofounder of the American Freedom Campaign, a grass roots democracy movement in the United States whose mission is the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law.
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Valerie Solanas
Valerie Jean Solanas was an American radical feminist writer best known for shooting the artist Andy Warhol in 1968. She wrote the SCUM Manifesto, an essay on patriarchal culture advocating the creation of an all-female society.
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Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes is a French writer, novelist and filmmaker, born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. Her most famous novel, and film of the same name is Baise-moi, a contemporary example of the exploitation films genre known as rape and revenge films. Her most recent biographical, non-fiction work, King Kong Theory has also been translated into English, and recounts her experiences working within the French sex industry, and attendant infamy and praise associated with the aforementioned Baise-Moi.
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Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.
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Aimé Césaire
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Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist particularly interested in overcoming gender and the heterosexual contract. She published her first novel, L'opoponax, in 1964 . Her second novel, Les Guérillères (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism.
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Martin Winckler
Martin Winckler, pseudonyme de Marc Zaffran, est un médecin militant féministe français connu comme romancier et essayiste. Évoquant souvent la situation du système médical français, il est également critique de séries télévisées et traducteur. Il est aujourd'hui citoyen canadien et vit à Montréal (Canada).
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Martin Winckler (born Marc Zaffran) is a French M.D. and short story, novel and essay writer. His main topics are the French medical system, the relationships between caregivers and patients and Women's Health. One of the first TV series critics in France, he has written numerous articles and books on the subject (ER; Grey's Anatomy; House, MD; Law & Order). -
Pénélope Bagieu
Pénélope Bagieu, (born 22 January 1982 Paris), is a French illustrator and comic designer. She became known for her comic blog My quite fascinating life.
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Penelope Bagieu graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economic and Social studies, she spent a year at ESAT Paris, then at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris and then at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Multimedia and entertainment, where she graduated in December 2006.
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Mona Chollet
Mona Chollet is a Franco-Swiss writer and journalist. She is the chief editor for Le Monde diplomatique and has also written for Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris, France.
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Après une licence en lettres à Genève, elle étudie le journalisme à l’École supérieure de journalisme de Lille.
Elle est ensuite pigiste pour Charlie Hebdo. Mais son contrat est interrompu en 2000 après sa contestation d'un éditorial du directeur de la rédaction Philippe Val, qui qualifiait les Palestiniens de « non-civilisés ». Elle raconte : « Quelques jours après, il m’a convoquée, et il m’a annoncé qu’il arrêtait mon CDI après le mois d’essai, alors que j’étais pigiste depuis un an. Ça m’a sidérée »1.
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Han Kang
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
Lou Lubie
Originaire de l'île de la Réunion, Lou Lubie publie son premier roman à dix-huit ans, avant de s'orienter vers la bande dessinée. Ses cinq premiers livres voient le jour chez des éditeurs réunionnais.
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Passionnée par les possibilités créatives du numérique, elle fait ses études dans le domaine du jeu vidéo. En 2008, elle fonde le Forum Dessiné, un site communautaire de BD collective improvisée. Toujours actif aujourd'hui, le site a vu défiler 2.600 dessinateurs et près de 300.000 dessins.
Ses albums Goupil ou face – BD de vulgarisation sur la bipolarité – et La Fille dans l’écran – romance dessinée à quatre mains – lui valent une notoriété croissante. En 2021, elle revient avec L’homme de la situation, un thriller psychologique très actuel qui -
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.
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The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
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Clara Serra
Es investigadora, activista feminista y exdiputada de la Asamblea de Madrid. Actualmente es investigadora en el Centro de Investigación Teórica, Género, Sexualidad de la Universidad de Barcelona (ADHUC). Fue responsable del Área de Igualdad de Podemos desde sus inicios hasta 2017. Es autora del libro Leonas y zorras. Estrategias políticas feministas y coordinadora del texto colectivo Alianzas Rebeldes. Un feminismo más allá de la identidad.
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Houria Bouteldja
Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer focusing on anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and Islamophobia. She serves as spokesperson for the Parti des Indigènes de la République (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic).
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Reni Eddo-Lodge
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Dahlia de la Cerda
Nació, creció y vive actualmente en la Ciudad de Aguascalientes. Estudió la licenciatura en Filosofía. Ha sido empleada de un call-center, un bar y una fábrica de dulces. Ha trabajado como editora de noticias internacionales y como vendedora de Avón, rosas negras en la calle y de ropa de segunda en un tianguis. En 2009 ganó el certamen literario Letras de la Memoria, convocado por el Centro Cultural Los Arquitos. En 2015 fue becaria del Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico de Aguascalientes (PECDA). Fue beneficiaria del Programa Jóvenes Creadores del Fonca en las emisiones 2016 y 2018. Ganadora del Premio Nacional de Cuento Joven Comala 2019. Ha participado en las antologías Mexicanas. Trece narrativas contemporáneas
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Cho Nam-Joo
Associated Names:
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* 조남주 (Korean)
* Cho Nam-Joo (English)
* 趙南柱 (Chinese)
* โชนัมจู (Thai)
* チョ・ナムジュ (Japanese)
Cho Nam-joo is a former television scriptwriter. In the writing of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 she drew partly on her own experience as a woman who quit her job to stay at home after giving birth to a child.
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Pauline Harmange
Pauline Harmange is an author and a feminist, writer of "I Hate Men", the feminist outburst published in 18 languages. She strongly believes that fiction has a crucial role to play in shaping representations.
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Alana S. Portero
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mujeres trans.
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
Es cofundadora de la compañía de teatro STRIGA, que dirigía y en la que actuaba. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB para varios medios, como la revista Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa y Vogue España, además de en su propio Patreon.
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Sophie Lewis
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Sunaura Taylor
Sunaura "Sunny" Taylor is an artist and writer based in New York City and the author of Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation (The New Press). She has written for AlterNet, American Quarterly, BOMB, the Monthly Review, Qui Parle, and Yes! magazine and has contributed to the books Ecofeminism, Defiant Daughters, Occupy!, Stay Solid, and Infinite City. Taylor and Judith Butler’s conversation is featured in the film Examined Life and the book of the same name, published by The New Press.
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Tansy E. Hoskins
The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion is out now.
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This is a book about fashion and capitalism, destruction and resistance, billionaires, workers and revolution. Above all it is a book that reveals fashion as a performance of deeper social issues.
What started as an update of Stitched Up escalated when I found I couldn't stop writing. The book ended up being about 60% new text. I see it as the same skeleton with brand new flesh on its bones.
There is a lot of new material in the text, covering so many of the things that have happened in the past decade - social media & communicative capitalism, influencers and digital activism, the rise of slash fashion brands, and Covid to name just a few.
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Franco Moretti
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Dick Hebdige
Richard 'Dick' Hebdige (born 1951) is an expatriate British media theorist and sociologist most commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and subcultural resistance against the mainstream of society.
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Hebdige received his M.A. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is best known for his influential book Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979. He has been teaching in art schools since the mid-1970s. He served as the Dean of Critical Studies and the Director of the experimental writing program at the California Institute of the Arts before going to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently a professor of film and media studies and art.
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Irene (@irenevrose)
Irene - prononcer "Iréné" -, a grandi dans un mélange de cultures espagnole, basque et française. En 2017, elle s'installe à Paris et se lance dans le militantisme féministe. En parallèle, elle transforme son compte Instagram en outil de démocratisation d'idées. Elle participe au mouvement des collages contre les féminicides.
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Emanuele Coccia
Emanuele Coccia is a philosopher teaching at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has lectured and taught courses at several universities, including Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Harvard and Columbia, and collaborated on many art exhibitions in France and Italy. He is the author of numerous books translated into several languages, including The Life of Plants (2018). He is a columnist for Libération and collaborates with Le Monde and La Repubblica. He is currently writing a book on the relationship between fashion and philosophy with Gucci's creative director Alessandro Michele.
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Houria Bouteldja
Houria Bouteldja is a French-Algerian political activist and writer focusing on anti-racism, anti-imperialism, and Islamophobia. She serves as spokesperson for the Parti des Indigènes de la République (Party of the Indigenous of the Republic).
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Monique Wittig
Monique Wittig was a French author and feminist theorist particularly interested in overcoming gender and the heterosexual contract. She published her first novel, L'opoponax, in 1964 . Her second novel, Les Guérillères (1969), was a landmark in lesbian feminism.
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Koa Beck
Koa Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and co-host of “The #MeToo Memos” on WNYC’s The Takeaway. Previously, she was the executive editor of Vogue.com and the senior features editor at MarieClaire.com.
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Koa was a guest editor for the 2019 special Pride section of The New York Times commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, editing such prominent voices as Kate Bornstein, Gavin Grimm, Julia Serano, and Barbara Smith, among other activists.
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Glenn Fleishman
I started writing as a child and never stopped. I’ve always been interested in what makes things tick and how to explain that. That led to a career as a technology journalist and how-to article and book author. I’ve written dozens of books over my career in some combination of the two.
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In the 2010s, I started publish a series of book that combined printing and type history and technology in a variety of ways. These titles include Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, a collection of essays and reporting; London Kerning, a look at two magnificent London printing collections and the city’s typographical history; Six Centuries of Type & Printing; and How Comics Were Made, a heavily visual history of the production and reproduction of newspaper com -
Thomas Elsaesser
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Professor Smith is Pro Vice-Chancellor Maori with responsibilities for Maori development at the University of Waikato as well as Dean of the School of Maori and Pacific Development and a professor of Education and Maori Development.
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Professor Smith has an academic background in education and research and has a long career as an inter-disciplinary scholar. She is well known for her publications, public speaking and research leadership.
Her 1998 book Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples has become a seminal text in indigenous studies. Her other publications canvass a wide range of academic disciplines.
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Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Chandra Talpade Mohanty (born 1955) is a prominent postcolonial and transnational feminist theorist.
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She became well-known after the publication of her influential essay, "Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses" in 1986. In this essay, Mohanty critiques the political project of Western feminism in its discursive construction of the category of the "Third World woman" as a hegemonic entity. Mohanty states that Western feminisms have tended to gloss over the differences between Southern women, but that the experience of oppression is incredibly diverse, and contingent on geography, history, and culture.
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Banu Subramaniam
Banu Subramaniam is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Originally trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, she writes about social and cultural aspects of science as they relate to experimental biology.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw (also writes as Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw) is a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia Law School. A leading authority on civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and racism and the law, she is a co-editor of Critical Race Theory (The New Press). Crenshaw is a contributor to Ms. Magazine, The Nation, and the Huffington Post. She lives in Los Angeles.
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Julietta Singh
Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She is a writer and academic who works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), and No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018). Her academic writing has been published in leading cultural theory journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Symploke, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her creative work has appeared in venues such as American Poetry Review, Animal Shelter, Prairie Fire, Social Text, and Women & Performance.
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Alain Gresh
Alain Gresh est un journaliste français né en 1948 en Égypte.
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Sa mère est une Russe de confession juive. Son père naturel est Henri Curiel (1914-1978), militant communiste et internationaliste, assassiné à Paris. Son père adoptif est un copte égyptien.
Il publie plusieurs livres sur le Proche-Orient, dont notamment L'islam en questions en 2000 avec Tariq Ramadan.
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Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley Her 1997 monograph, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, offers a postcolonial feminist critique of Western dominance in African studies.
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Max Haiven
Max Haiven is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Media and Social Justice at Lakehead University in Northwest Ontario and co-director of the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).
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Mahmoud Darwich
Mahmoud Darwich (en arabe : محمود درويش), né le 13 mars 1941 à Al-Birwah en Galilée (Palestine sous mandat britannique) et mort le 9 août 2008 à Houston (Texas, États-Unis), est une des figures de proue de la poésie palestinienne.
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Profondément engagé dans la lutte de son peuple, il n'a pour autant jamais cessé d'espérer la paix et sa renommée dépasse largement les frontières de son pays. Il est le président de l'Union des écrivains palestiniens. Il a publié plus de vingt volumes de poésie, sept livres en prose et a été rédacteur de plusieurs publications, comme Al-jadid - (الجديد - Le nouveau), Al-fajr (الفجر - L'aube), Shu'un filistiniyya (شؤون فلسطينية - Affaires palestiniennes) et Al-Karmel (الكرمل) . Il est reconnu internationalement pou -
Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr (born 1969) is an American poet, critic, and editor. She is the recipient of the 2009 Hardison Poetry Prize awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrate great imagination and daring.
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Both Spahr's critical and scholarly studies, i.e., Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity (2001), and her poetry have shown Spahr's commitment to fostering a "value of reading" as a communal, democratic, open process. Her work therefore "distinguishes itself because she writes poems for which her critical work calls." In addition to teaching and writing poetry, Spahr is also an active editor. Spahr received the National Poetry Series Award for her first collection of poe -
Sohaila Abdulali
Sohaila Abdulali was born in Bombay, India. She did her schooling in India, and moved to the United States with her family when she was 15. Since then, she has lived in both countries. She has a BA from Brandeis University in Economics and Sociology, and an MA from Stanford University in Communication. Her undergraduate thesis dealt with the socio-economics of rape in India. When she was 20, she wrote an explosive article on the subject in an Indian magazine that won her notoriety for years. In 2013, she wrote an op-ed in the New York Times.
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Sohaila is Senior Editor at Ubuntu Education Fund, an international NGO working to transform the lives of vulnerable children in the townships of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She writes and edits grants -
Christine Delphy
Christine Delphy is a French sociologist, feminist, writer and theorist. She was a co-founder of the review Nouvelles questions féministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir in 1977.
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Ranajit Guha
Ranajit Guha was a historian of South Asia who was greatly influential in the Subaltern Studies group, and was the editor of several of the group's early anthologies. He migrated from India to the UK in 1959, and currently lives in Vienna, Austria.
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His Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India is widely considered to be a classic. Aside from this, his founding statement in the first volume of Subaltern Studies set the agenda for the Subaltern Studies group, defining the "subaltern" as "the demographic difference between the total Indian population and all those whom we have described as the ‘elite’." -
Raewyn W. Connell
Raewyn Connell (also known as R.W. Connell and Robert W. Connell) is an Australian sociologist. She gained prominence as an intellectual of the Australian New Left. She is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney and known for the concept of hegemonic masculinity and southern theory.
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Avery F. Gordon
Avery F. Gordon is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Visiting Professor in the Birkbeck Department of Law, University of London (2015-2018). She is the author of The Workhouse: The Breitenau Room (with Ines Schaber); Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power and People; Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination among other books and articles. Her work focuses on radical thought and practice and over the last several years, she has been writing about imprisonment, war and other forms of dispossession and how to eliminate them. She serves on the Editorial Committee of Race & Class, is the co-host of No Alibis, a weekly public affairs radio program on KCSB FM Santa Barbara, and
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Fernando Rosas
FERNANDO ROSAS nasceu em Lisboa, a 18 de Abril de 1946. Licenciado em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (1969), mestre em História dos séculos XIX e XX (1986) e doutorado em História Económica e Social Contemporânea pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1990).
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Foi, entre 1996 e 2016, professor catedrático de História Contemporânea. Em 2019 tornou-se o primeiro professor emérito da NOVA/FCSH, distinção pelo seu percurso académico ímpar. Na mesma faculdade, foi Presidente do Instituto de História Contemporânea (1995-2012). Entre 1988 e 1995, integrou o conselho de redacção da revista Penélope – Fazer e Desfazer a História. Entre 1994 e 2007, dirigiu a revista História.
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