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Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez is a Professor in Sociology with a 
focus on Culture and Migration at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am 
Main. Previously to this position, she was Professor in General 
Sociology at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Moreover, she is a 
Visiting Professor in CRISHET – Chair for Critical Studies in Higher 
Education Transformation, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and 
Adjunct Professor in Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. 
She is a Principal Investigator in the DFG Research Group “Human Right 
Discourses in the Migration Society” (MeDiMi). Her publications are in 
the field of sociological theory, migration, culture and work. She has 
been an early and staunch advocate of decolonial theory in the 
German-speaking world as her first monograph Intellectual Women 
Migrants – Subjectivities in Times of Globalization (1999) and the 
edited collection with Hito Steyerl Spricht die Subalterne Deutsch? 
Migration und Postkoloniale Kritik (Does the Subaltern Speak German? 
Migration and Postcolonial Critique, 2003) demonstrate. Among her many 
publications within the field of migration, gender, work and 
decolonial critique are Migration, Domestic Work and Affect, published 
by Routledge (2010, 2011), the co-edited collection with Manuela 
Boatca and Sergio Costa Decolonizing European Sociology (2010, 2016) 
and more recently Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons. 
Migration-Coloniality Necropolitics and Conviviality Infrastructure 
(2023, 2024). Further, she has published with Shirley Anne Tate the 
Palgrave Handbook in Critical Race and Gender (2022), with Rhoda 
Reddock Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and 
the Caribbean (2021) and with Pinar Tuzcu Migrantischer Feminismus in 
der deutschen Frauenbewegung (2021). Her work engages with affective 
labor, decolonial mourning, materialities, institutional racism, 
racial capitalism and the coloniality of migration.