Angela Patricia Heredia Pineda

Country: 
Colombia
Year of Enrollment: 
2019

Angela Patricia Heredia Pineda is pursuing a PhD at the Department of Gender Studies, Central European University. She holds an M.A in Gender Studies from Central European University in Budapest and an M.A in Philosophy, as well as B.A in History and Philosophy from Los Andes University in Bogota. Through theoretical and historical research, her work explores the relation between corporeality, materiality and historicity to think about what it means to be embedded in the uneven topographies of the “Colonial Anthropocene”. This motivates the study of critical phenomenological perspectives within the genealogies of anticolonial materialist thought, focusing black, indigenous and brown feminist perspectives. Her PhD project, titled HISTORY IN THE FLESH: FEMINIST NEOVITALISMS AND THE COLONIALITY OF THE POSTHU(MAN), critically approaches posthumanisms, particularly feminist new materialisms, by exploring the relation between corporeality, historicity and the notion of the human from an anticolonial point of view. The project elaborates an anticolonial critique of new materialist perspectives, taking as a point of departure black, indigenous, and decolonial feminist reflections on the notion of the human.