Françoise Vergès

Title

Françoise Vergès

Birthplace

Paris, France

Primary Sources

Vergès, F. (2024). Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380397/making-the-world-clean/

Vergès, F. (2022). A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective. Translated by Melissa Thackway. Pluto Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2g591t7.

Vergès, F. (2021). A Decolonial Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press. Accessed November 22, 2022.

Vergès, F. (2020). The wombs of women: race, capital, feminism, translated and introduction by Kaiama L. Glover. Durham: Duke University Press.
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-wombs-of-women?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog%20post&utm_campaign=b-AfSA-Nov20

Vergès, F. (2001). Vertigo and Emancipation, Creole Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Politics. Theory, Culture & Society 18(2–3), 169–183. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02632760122051698

Vergès, F. (1999). Monsters and Revolutionaries, Colonial Family Romance. Durham: Duke University Press. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822379096/html

Secondary Sources

Lyons, P., & Vergès, F. (2024). Interview with Françoise Vergès. L'Esprit Créateur, 64(1), 144-157. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esp.2024.a929210

Glover, K. L., & VERGÈS, F. (2020). Translator’s Introduction. In The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (pp. xiii–xviii). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv14t48cc.4

Olufemi, L. (2020). Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power. Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxrpzvs

Extra Resources

Another Imagination, Decolonial and Feminist: An Interview with Françoise Vergès, episteme, uninvited sexualities, 7: Accessed June 30, 2023. https://positionspolitics.org/another-imagination-decolonial-and-feminist-an-interview-with-francoise-verges/

Interview with Françoise Vergès at the Louvre Museum. (2020, July 25). mkw1906. Podcast. Accessed June 30, 2022. https://soundcloud.com/mkw1906/interview-with-francois-verges-at-the-louvre-museum

Locating Legacies: the Politics of Decolonisation with François Vergès. (April 25, 2023). Podcast. Radical in Conversation, created by Stuart Hall foundation, and Pluto Press. Accessed June 19, 2023. https://plutopress.podbean.com/e/locating-legacies-the-politics-of-decolonisation-with-francoise-verges/ 

Vergès,. F. (2019, May). Capitalocene, Waste, Gender. eflux journal. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/ 100/269165/ capitalocene-waste-race-and-gender/

Collection

Europe

Citation

“Françoise Vergès,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/759.

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