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recent/upcoming talks and lectures
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The Case for Critical Cultural Studies in the AI Age
April 2, 2025
Lecture for the CUSO Doctoral Workshop in Modern and Contemporary Literature in English, University of Geneva (Switzerland).
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Articulation, Hegemony, and the Anti-Gender Campaigns in the Americas
March 11, 2025
Lecture in the Public Lecture Series at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern (Switzerland).
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La extrema derecha en Colombia: Claves de una historia exitosa
November 29, 2024
Guest lecture at the Philosophy Colloquium of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Los Andes University, Bogotá (Colombia).
publications
book
Forthcoming. Regimes of Colombianidad: Beauty, Citizenship, and Sex. SUNY Press.
journal articles (peer-reviewed)
2024. ‘The Curse of Relevance: Challenges Facing Right-Wing Studies’. Co-authored with A.J. Bauer and Clara Juárez Miró. In: Journal of Right-Wing Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1.
2023. ‘Renouvellement des mœurs, consolidation du patriarcat: le magazine colombien SoHo à l’ère du postféminisme’. In: Nouvelles Questions Féministes, 42:1, 86-100.
2022. ‘SoHo as virtual theatre: Performing gender, class, and race in 21st-century urban Colombia’. In: Cultural Studies, 36:1, 41-73.
2021. ‘“Pedagogies of cruelty” and the patriarchal order of the nation state: the Falsos Positivos as a paradigmatic example’. In: Postcolonial Studies, 24:1, 63-81.
2020. ‘Postfeminismo / Genealogía, geografía y contornos de un concepto’. In: Debate Feminista 59 (enero-junio), pp. 1-30.
2016. ‘Coloniality at work: Decolonial critique and the postfeminist regime’. In: Feminist Theory 17.2, pp. 157-173.
2015. ‘“Freakish Fat”, “Wretched Black”: Female Abject Beings in Contemporary Colombian Media and Culture‘. In: Feminist Media Studies 15.4, pp. 643-657.
2015. ‘Machos y mujeres de armas tomar. Patriarcado y subjetividad femenina en la narco-telenovela colombiana contemporánea‘. In: La manzana de la discordia 10.1, pp. 67-81.
book chapters (peer-reviewed)
2024: ‘The Far Right from the Underside of History: Decolonising Far Right Studies’. In: The ethics of researching the far right: Critical approaches and reflections. Edited by: Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune, Meghan Tinsley and Aurelien Mondon. Manchester : Manchester University Press.
2022: ‘“The weaponisation of gender beyond “gender” : “pedagogies of cruelty” and the entrenchment of the “coloniality of power”’. In Gender and education in an era of post-truth populism : pedagogies, challenges and strategies. Edited by: Penny Jane Burke, Akane Kanai, Julia Coffey and Rosalind Gill. London : Bloomsbury.
book reviews
2013. (with K. Stirling). ‘Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan: Studies in Contemporary Myth: Estudios sobre un mito contemporáneo ed. by Alfonso Muñoz Corcuera and Elisa T. Di Biase (review)’. In: Scottish Literary Review 5 (2), 130-132.
academic
2023 (June 12). ‘La crisis de medios en Colombia’. In: Revista Sur.
2022 (September 10). “Vom Auslöschen der eigenen Geschichte”. In: Republik. Originally written in English with the title “On racialisation as being and becoming”. Translation by Sarah Fuhrmann.
2021 (March). Interview with Cristian Moreno and Paola Montero. “Asesinatos en masa en nombre de la seguridad. Entrevista a Isis Giraldo, parte III.” In: Lagunanegra.
2021 (March). Interview with Cristian Moreno and Paola Montero. “Alimentar sueños irrealizables: el optimismo cruel del proyecto neoliberal. Entrevista a Isis Giraldo, parte II.” In: Lagunanegra.
2021 (March). Interview with Cristian Moreno and Paola Montero. “SoHo: un dispositivo regulador de la subjetividad femenina. Entrevista a Isis Giraldo, parate I.” In: Lagunanegra.
2020 (June 5). Opinion column in El Espectador. “Deseufemizar el lenguaje en los medios como primera “contrapedagogía de la crueldad”“.
2020 (May 15). Opinion column in El Espectador. “Redes sociales y democratización de la esfera pública“.
2018. ‘Rita Segato’. In: Global Social Theory.
2017. ‘The “Gender Ideology” Menace and the Rejection of the Peace Agreement in Colombia’. In: Discover Society.
2014. ‘Post-feminismo y performance en la televisión colombiana contemporánea’. In: Boca de Sapo. 17, pp. 16-20. Full issue here.
2011-2020. Virago: everything is political. Personal blog on contemporary issues. Selected posts:
Nov. 2018. ‘El “centro” y los “extremos” en los ejercicios meta-ideológicos de la derecha’.
June 2018. ‘Recentrar la desigualdad no es ser extremista sino progresista’.
Dec. 2017. ‘Plagio, la cultura del “quién es quién”, y el feminismo como herramienta para la ventaja individual’.
Mar. 2017. ‘El caso de Carolina Sanín, la ola antifeminista y la libertad de expresión’.
Feb. 2016. ‘Entre orgasmo múltiple y eventual impotencia, escojo el primero’.
Jan. 2015. ‘El credo secular’.
Nov. 2014. ‘The tyrannical hegemony of MS Word’.
Nov. 2013. ‘Le triomphe de l’amour’.