Thursday, 17. December 2020, 19:00
HAU Hebbel am Ufer

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2020-12-17 19:00:00 2020-12-17 20:30:00 Europe/Berlin #6 Racial Capitalocene − Suffocation, Premature Death, Waste, Race and Gender https://www.berlin-buehnen.de/en/schedule/6-racial-capitalocene-suffocation-premature-death-waste-race-and-gender/events/231084/ HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Stresemannstraße 29, 10963 Berlin

#6 Racial Capitalocene − Suffocation, Premature Death, Waste, Race and Gender

Name: #6 Racial Capitalocene − Suffocation, Premature Death, Waste, Race and Gender
Start: 2020-12-17T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-12-17T20:30:00+01:00
Location: HAU Hebbel am Ufer

Burning Futures: On Ecologies of Existence

Photo: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

In the debates about climate change or the “Anthropocene”, voices from the global south, the primary victim of these phenomena, have developed an analysis that brings together racism, capitalism, imperialism and gender. In doing so, environmental catastrophes are not made the subject of discussion as an unintended by-product of the production methods of a universal humanity, but instead traced back to the extractionist logic of colonialism and the continuous exploitation of people and resources from the global south. Proceeding from this context, the decolonial and feminist theorist Françoise Vergès and the historian Edna Bonhomme discuss the role of women of colour in the removal of global waste, search for forms of healing and ask how a different relationship between humanity and nature can be conceived.