In the Era of Exhaustion:

Political Undercurrents and Critical Hope

Thursday, November 15 at 4:30pm, The Franke Institute for the Humanities

Macarena Gómez-Barris is Chairperson of the Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies and Director of the Global South Center (GSC) at Pratt Institute. The GSC is a space for critical inquiry that centers experimental modes of thinking, being and doing. Macarena is author of three books including The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives that theorizes social life, art, and decolonial praxis through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories
(Duke University Press, 2017). Macarena’s recent book Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018) asks us to imagine politics beyond the nation state. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010). Macarena is working on a new book project called At the Sea’s Edge. She writes and teaches on social and cultural theory, decolonial thought, racial
and extractive capitalism, social movements, queer and submerged perspectives, critical Indigenous studies, experimental film, and environmental disasters and social transformation. She was Fulbright Research Visiting Professor at Department of Sociology and Gender FLACSO-Quito, 2014-2015.