Françoise Vergès
Co-Being
Why Coralie Custos Quatreville recommends Françoise Vergès
“Who cleans the world, and who keeps it running? Françoise Vergès reflects on the politics of maintenance and the invisible labor performed by women.”
A political scientist born in 1952 and raised on La Réunion, Françoise Vergès works on the legacies of colonial slavery, state racism and decolonial feminisms. She chaired the Comité national pour la mémoire et l'histoire de l'esclavage from 2008 to 2012, then held the Global South(s) chair at the Collège d'études mondiales of the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris. Her books, including Le Ventre des femmes, on the abortions and sterilisations forced on women from La Réunion in th
- Place
- Saint-Denis, La Réunion
- Recommended by
- Coralie Custos Quatreville
- Collections
- Co-Being · Arts & Culture
Kréol rényoné
Kisa i nétoy lo monn, é kisa i fé ali tourn ? Françoise Vergès i pans si la politik lantretien é si lo travay invizib bann fanm i fé.
Françoise Vergès lé in politolog, li la nèt an 1952 é li la grandi La Rényon. Li travay si bann éritaz lesklavaz kolonyal, lo rasism léta é bann féminism dékolonyal. Li la prézid lo Comité national pour la mémoire et l'histoire de l'esclavage dopi 2008 ziska 2012, apré li la okip lo pos Global South(s) dan Collège d'études mondiales la Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris. Son bann liv, kom Le Ventre des femmes, si bann avortman é bann stérilizasyon de fors k'i la fé si bann Rényonèz dan zané 1960 é 1970, é Un féminisme décolonial, la vin bann référans. Li fé kontinyé sa pansé-la an fézan bann ekspozisyon é bann atelyé piblik i amar ansanm lar, la mémwar é bann lit kont lo rasism.
