María do Mar Castro Varela

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María do Mar Castro Varela, 2017

María do Mar Castro Varela (* 1964 in La Coruña ) is a Spanish political scientist and professor of general education and social work with a focus on gender and queer studies at the Alice Salomon University in Berlin. The teaching also focuses on racism and migration, critical theory and project development. Her research interests focus on Postcolonial Studies , Gender and Queer Studies, Critical Migration Studies, Holocaust Studies and Critical Media Practice.

biography

Castro Varela studied pedagogy and psychology at the University of Cologne and received his doctorate in 2005 from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in political science on "Utopian discourses of migrant women". In the 2006/2007 winter semester, she was Maria Goeppert Mayer visiting professor at the University of Oldenburg . She has been a professor at the Alice Salomon University since the 2007/2008 winter semester. In the 2015/16 winter semester and 2016 summer semester, she worked as a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna on the subject of democracy , education and epistemic change. She is a liaison professor of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation .

Works

  • "Postcolonial Theory. A Critical Introduction", Bielefeld: transcript, 2005 (with Nikita Dhawan)
  • "Untimely utopias. Migrant women between self-discovery and scholarly hope", Bielefeld: transcript, 2007
  • "Gender - Power - Climate: Feminist Perspectives on Climate, Social Relationships with Nature and Justice", Leverkusen-Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 2012 (edited with Gülay Çağlar and Helen Schwenken)
  • "Social (in) justice. Critical perspectives on diversity, intersectionality and anti-discrimination", Münster / Hamburg / London: LIT, 2011 (edited with Nikita Dhawan)
  • "... not so tangible and yet real". A quantitative and qualitative study on violence and (multiple) experiences of discrimination of lesbian, bisexual women and trans * women in Germany ", Berlin: lesmigras, 2012 (published with lesmigras eV)
  • "Is integration necessary? A pamphlet", Freiburg i. Br .: Lambertus, 2013
  • "Postcolonial Theory. A Critical Introduction", 2nd completely updated and expanded edition, Bielefeld: transcript, 2015 (with Nikita Dhawan)
  • "The demonization of the other. Criticism of racism in the present", Berlin: transcript, 2016 (edited with Paul Mecheril)
  • "Homosexualities and age (s). Results from research and practice", Wiesbaden: Springer VS-Verlag, 2016 (edited with Rüdiger Lautmann and Ralf Lottmann)

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personal data
SURNAME Castro Varela, María do Mar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish educational and political scientist and professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH La Coruña