Event overview
A Unit of Global Justice Talk
Macarena Gomez-Barris is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
This talk addresses the notion of the public square in relation to the work of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's concept of the "Undercommons." I chart a geography of the undercommons in relation to Julie Mehretu's "Mogamma" paintings and to recent erruptions in Chile around the fortieth anniversary of the military coup. In the ruins of student debt, financial reorganization, and militarization in the Global South, the undercommons invite a different way to understand the visual gestures of decolonial resistance that differently orient us to the ongoing possibility of the public square.
Macarena's research interests focus on memory, culture, and power. Her book Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile, examines the memory politics of representation and culture in the aftermath of Chile's dictatorship (UC Press 2009). Macarena co-edited a volume that provides methodological and epistemological guidance for a reconstructed Sociology, entitled Towards a Sociology of the Trace (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2010). Her current research is on religious tourism in Cusco, Peru and Jerusalem.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 Dec 2013 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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