Françoise Vergès
Françoise Vergès | |
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Vergès in 2016 | |
| Born | 23 January 1952 |
| Citizenship | French |
| Occupations | Academic, author, activist |
| Parent(s) | Paul Vergès and Laurence Deroin |
| Relatives | Jacques Vergès (uncle) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, San Diego University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Métissage (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political theory History |
| Sub-discipline | Postcolonial studies |
| Institutions | University College London Sussex University Goldsmiths, University of London Brown University The Africa Institute |
| Notable works | A Program of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024) A Decolonial Feminism (2021) |
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.
Her book A Decolonial Feminism was published in English in 2021, translated by Ashley J. Bohrer along with Vergès, with the support of an English PEN Translates award.