Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is Professor in Sociology with a focus on Culture and Migration at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main.

• Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION: ENTANGLED MOURNINGS; Chapter 2. TRAUERARBEIT – DECOLONIAL MOURNING; Chapter 3. POLITICAL MOURNING; Chapter 4. COUNTERING NECROPOLITICAL SOCIAL REPRODUCTION; Chapter 5. ACCOUNTABLE MOURNING - BEARING WITNESS; Chapter 6.  COMMUNAL MOURNING - BECOMING-WITH; Chapter 7.  MOURNING’S JUSTICE: CONVIVIALITY INFRASTRUCTURE OF A CARING COMMONS; Notes on Author; Index

This is a thoroughly researched account that delves into the affective and political implications of memory and mourning in the context of collective struggles against border necropolitics, feminicide and the coloniality of migration. In its vivid detail and energetic commitment, the book traces situated acts of remembering and resisting modern colonial intersectional violence, thereby calling for a feminist intersectional framework that engages grief as a method to mobilize entangled temporalities of antiracist solidarity, collective care and social justice. — Athena Athanasiou, Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences