Noémi Michel, Dr.
Dr. Noémi Michel ist Senior Lecturer in Politiktheorie am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Genf und Postdoctoral Fellow im Projekt „Citizenship and Immigration: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Swiss Philosophy of Integration” des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Institut für Bürger_innenschaftsstudien, Universität Genf / NCCR–on the move). Sie ist außerdem Mitbegründerin und Koordinatorin der Forschungsgruppe PostCit „thinking racial and postcolonial difference“, die Forscher_innen, Künstler_innen, Aktivist_innen und andere Interessierte rund um kritische Perspektiven auf „race“ und Postkolonialismus zusammenbringt.
Ihr Interesse in Forschung und Lehre gilt poststruktureller, feministischer und queerer sowie postkolonialer und Critical Race Theory, mit Fokus auf Fragen von Gleichheit und Differenz, (anti)rassistischer Politik und der diskursiven, visuellen und narrativen Produktion rassifizierter und (post)kolonialer Differenz. Ihr Arbeiten sind in Critical Horizons, Postcolonial Studies, Social Politics, dem Swiss Political Science Review und dem Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies veröffentlicht worden. Noémi Michels aktuelle Forschungsachsen drehen sich einerseits um widersprüchliche Grammatiken von Antirassismus in öffentlichen Debatten und Institutionen in Europa und andererseits um schwarze feministische Theoretisierungen von politischer voice.
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Black feminist thoughts: from intersectionality to the engendering of racial capital
Keynote - Thursday, 13.09. 11:00-12:00 ZHG 011This keynote traces a path. I take intersectionality as a starting point, but I move further from it as I explore alternative concepts that contemporary black feminists have developed in order to think the conjugated operation of racism, sexism, heteronormativity and capitalism.
As it tackles the effects of multiple forms of oppressions, intersectionality has become an attractive tool amongst those who wish to confront the complexities of social inequalities, hegemonies and dispossessions. Although black feminist interventions often appear as references in scholarship and activism concerned with intersectionality, they only rarely deploy this concept. Drawing upon this paradox, I discuss alternative notions – such as the engendering of race, racial capitalism, racialized patriarchy or scenes of subjection – offered by the manifold and diasporic constellation of black feminist thoughts. As I discuss the Combahee River Manifesto as well as the work of Saidiya Hartman, Françoise Vergès and Angela Davis, my aim is not to dismiss the political and theoretical value of intersectionality. I rather want to shed light on the rich and complex theorization of power within black feminisms. More precisely, I show how black feminists develop a complex understanding of time in order to narrate the ways sexism, racism and capitalism operate together as well as to formulate strategies of resistance to the injurious effects of these multiple dominations. Within their accounts about the gendered (re)production – that is the engendering – of race and capital during slavery, colonialism and their afterlives, time emerges under three modalities: history, the temporalities of subjection and the temporary nature of resistance.
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