Talk
The Anthropocene and its Discontents – A Postcolonial Critique
Gaia Giuliani
Gaia Giuliani is a Political philosopher and a permanent researcher at the Center for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. She obtained her PhD in History of political Thought at the University of Torino (2005) and received then 3 postdoctoral fellowships. Her research interests focus on visual constructions of race and whiteness from an intersectional viewpoint in British and Italian nation-building processes and colonial experiences, the US, the Pacific, and postcolonial Europe. Her methodology crosses Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural and Gender Studies.