Rosi Braidotti

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Rosi Braidotti

Rosi Braidotti (born September 28, 1954 in Latisana , Italy ) is a contemporary philosopher and theorist of feminism .

Life

Braidotti, who grew up in Australia from the age of 16, has both Italian and Australian citizenship. She studied at the Australian National University in Canberra until 1977 and was awarded the University Medal in Philosophy and the University's Tillyard Prize. For her dissertation, Braidotti went to Luce Irigaray at the Sorbonne (PhD in Philosophy 1981 on "Feminism and Philosophy: The Critique of Power and Contemporary Feminist Thought").

Since 1988 she has been a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands , where she founded the Gender Studies course . In 1995 she became the founding director of the research center for women and gender studies (Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies NL, NOG), which she headed until 2005.

She was Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College from 2005-2006; In addition, she was Jean Monnet Professor at the European University Institute in Florence from 2002–2003 and a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1994 . In 2014 she was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea .

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Braidotti is a pioneer of European research on women and gender: She founded the inter-university SOCRATES network NOISE and the thematic network on women's rights, equality and diversity ATHENA, which she has been leading since 2005 and which was awarded the 2010 ERASMUS prize for "Lifelong Learning" has been.

She is an expert on the posthumanist turn of contemporary feminist theory and poststructuralist approaches. She also shaped the concept of “nomadic subjectivity”. This conception goes back to the nomadology of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari , who in their book Thousand Plateaus introduce the nomads as a figure who makes subversive mobility thinkable and describable. They develop and describe the nomad as a figure of thought based on ethnological studies. For Deleuze and Guattari, nomadic mobility escapes localization and fixation; it remains in motion. The settled logic of state power is opposed to this. Braidotti builds on these points, but develops this figure further into a sexually differentiated nomad. This core figure of Braidotti's thinking clearly shows her theoretical frame of reference, for which Deleuze and Guattari with their nomadology and Luce Irigaray with their conception of sexual difference are of central importance. With the concept of nomadic subjectivity, she is directed against uniform conceptions of the subject and outlines the model of a dynamic, non-uniform subjectivity.

"I want to tie back the activity of thinking to the mobility and fluctuations of an embodied mind that is incessantly making connections, changing and yet remaining stable, that has an affiliation and is fluid at the same time."

Overall, figurations and political fictions are central to Braidotti's thinking. She sees this as a way of overcoming log-centric thinking. In contrast to the classical philosophical tradition, her writing style can be described as associative and essayistic. Braidotti's aspiration is to develop both diagnostic registers and those of projection into possible futures. That is, she works on vocabulary and perspectives to understand the current political situation as well as on those to outline political visions beyond it.

"If we define thinking as a relational and collaborative participation in the construction of sustainable ways of lasting existence, then we could define the task of thinking as the production of appropriate ways of understanding what is happening to us so that we can then meet others productively feels like being alive is at the core of this definition of thinking. "

Publications

Monographs

Editors volumes

  • (Ed. With Patrick Hanafin and Bolette Blaagaard) After Cosmopolitanism, New York: Routledge , 2012. 188 pages.
  • (Ed. With Patricia Pisters) Revisiting Normativity with Deleuze, London and New York: Continuum , 2012. 238 pages.
  • The History of Continental Philosophy Volume 7, Durham: Acumen , 2010. 398 pages.
  • (Ed. With Claire Colebrook and Patrick Hanafin) Deleuze and Law. Forensic Futures, London: Palgrave Macmillan , 2009. 212 pages.
  • (Ed. With Claire Colebrook) Special edition of Australian Feminist Studies, on: “Feminist Timelines”, Routledge Volume 24 Issue 59, 2009. 142 pages.
  • (Ed. With Charles Esche and Maria Hlavajova) Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example, Critical Reader / Catalog for the Dutch Pavilion at the Biennale in Venice, 2007, Utrecht: BAK and Zurich: JRP. 334 pages. ISBN 978-3-905770-73-5 .
  • (Ed. With Judith Butler) New Feminism: Worlds of Feminism, Queer and Networking Conditions. Vienna: Löcker. 400 pages.
  • (Ed. With Gabriele Griffin) Thinking Differently: a Reader in European Women's Studies, London / New York: Zed Books , 2002. 405 pages. ISBN 978-3-85409-472-2 .
  • (Ed. With Nina Lykke) Between Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs. Feminist Confrontations With Science, Medicine and Cyberspace. London: Zed Books , 1996. 260 pages.
  • (Ed. With Gloria Wekker) Praten in het donker. Multiculturalism and anti-racism in a feminist perspective. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1996. 170 pages.
  • Poste restante. Feminist reports aan het postmoderne. Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994, pp. 157.
  • (Ed. With Suzette Haaksma), Ik denk dus zij is; De vrouwelijke intellectueel in literair en historically perspectief, Kampen: Kok Agora, 1994. 199 pages.
  • Een beeld van een vrouw. De visualisering van het vrouwelijke in een postmoderne cultuur, Kampen: Kok Agora, 1993. 188 pages.
  • Guest editor of the issue of Women's Studies International Forum. Subject volume: Women's Studies at the University of Utrecht, New York: Pergamon Press, 1993, Vol. 16, No. 4.
  • Guest editor of the volume of the magazine Les Cahiers du Grif. De la parenté à l'eugénisme Paris: Editions Tierce , 1987, no.36 .

Translations of her work "Nomadic Subjects"

  • Italian translation: Soggetto Nomade, Rome: Donzelli , 1995.
  • Spanish translation: Sujetos Nómades Corporización y Diferencia Sexual en la Teoria Feminista Contemporánea, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, ​​Mexico: Paidos , 2000.
  • Translation into Russian of individual chapters from Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory. In detail: “Introduction: By Way of Nomadism” (pp. 13–22) and Chapter 11: 'Women's Studies and the politics of Difference' (pp. 136–163). In: Sergei Zherebkin (ed.): Anthology on Western Gender Studies Theory, II Volume of the textbook Introduction to Gender Studies, St. Petersburg: Aleteia and Kharcov Center for Gender Studies , 2001. Translated by Zaven Babloyan.
  • Portuguese translation of chapter 8: “A diferenca sexual como um projecto politico nomada” in: Genero, Identitade e Desejo. Antologia Critica do Femminismo Contemporaneo, Lisboa: Edicoes Cotovia , 2002.
  • Korean translation, ISBN 89-951903-8-8 , 2005.
  • Russian translation of Chapter 8: “Sexual Difference as a Nomadic Political Project” in: Feminism, Art and Theory. 1970-2000, Moscow: RosPen, 2005.
  • Polish translation: Podmioty Nomadyczne. Ucieleśnienie I różnica seksualna w feminizmie współczesnym, Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Naukowe I Profesjonalne , 2009.

Video documents

  • 2009 feature-length documentary about Braidotti's life and work by Andrea Petõ and the Hungarian producer Ilona Hernádi, which was released on DVD

Literature on Rosi Braidotti

  • Villa, Paul-Irene: Mobility, heterotopia, decentration. Rosi Braidotti: "Nomadic Subjects" pp.143-152 in J. Reuter, A. Karentzos (Ed.) Key Works of Postcolonial Studies, Wiesbaden, 2012.
  • Schmidbauer, Marianne: Rosi Braidotti pp.11-27 in, M. Schmidbauer, H.Lutz and U. Wischermann (eds.): Classics of feminist theory, Sulzbach am Taunus, 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "A voice that resembles me." Rosi Braidotti in conversation with Sara Fortuna. In: Die Philosophin, Heft 29 (2004): 89-97
  2. CV (University of Utrecht)  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.let.uu.nl  
  3. ^ Membership directory: Rosi Braidotti. Academia Europaea, accessed October 19, 2017 .
  4. Academic networks of the ERASMUS program (EU Commission)
  5. Rosi Braidotti: Politics of Affirmation . Merve, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96273-001-7 , pp. 11 .
  6. Rosi Braidotti: Politics of Affirmation . Merve, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-96273-001-7 , pp. 15 .