To mark the Czech publication of Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique, 2019) by Karolinum, join us for a lecture by Françoise Vergès and a following debate moderated by Zuzana Uhde, organized by CEFRES, Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, the French Institute in Prague, Faculty of Arts of the Charles University and Karolinum.
What is decolonization, and why should feminism be decolonized? In what ways do certain forms of feminism contribute to colonization, dispossession, and exploitation? Françoise Vergès will answer these questions by examining Western feminist history and theory and exploring what decolonial feminism proposes.
Françoise Vergès opens her book Decolonial Feminism with the question: Who cleans up the world? Her interpretation of decolonial feminism is rooted in the experiences of underpaid and undervalued work that women—most of whom are racialized as “others”—do every day worldwide to keep society functioning. Vergès advocates for decolonizing feminism that is anti-racist and anti-capitalist, challenging Western feminism, which sometimes upholds in the name of women’s rights a civilizing mission and structural injustices tied to colonial histories and present-day racialised hierarchies.
Françoise Vergès is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racialization at UCL, London, winner of the Bannister Fletcher Fellowship 2025, and a member of the scientific board of the Foundation for the remembrance of slavery. Her latest publications include Making the World Clean; Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (Goldsmiths Press, 2024).
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