Books By Françoise Vergès - Author

Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island-France) is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racialization, University College London. A co-founder of the collective 'Decolonize the Arts' (2015-2020), she is the curator of decolonial visits in museums and L'Atelier, a workshop and public performance with artists and activists. She is interested in the racial fabrication of 'premature death,' the multiple practices of resistance and South-South circulations of theories and cultural forms. She writes books and articles on the afterlives of slavery and colonization, climate catastrophe and racial capitalocene, the impossible decolonization of the western museum, decolonial feminism, psychiatry, and the 'post-museum.' Her publications include: A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020), and Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergè