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Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterinnen
Slađana Branković M.A.
Slađana Branković studied Cultural and Gender Studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and became a PhD fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation in 2020. Since 2022 Branković is a PhD candidate at the Sociology Department, Goethe University Frankfurt, after initiating their research at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in 2020. They engage with subjects of naturalisation of Western sex/gender regimes, discursive strategies in intersex advocacy, and trans and intersex representation in visual arts and are active in different LGBTQI advocacy contexts. Slađa Brankovic is research associate in the DFG-Research Group Human Rights in the Migration Society (MeDiMi). They is responsible for the research project „Human rights discourses in political protest from refugees and undocumented migrants in Germany and the USA.
- Trans and Intersex Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Migration
- Anti/Decolonial Studies
- Discourse analysis
- Politics of representation
- Social Movements
Buchkapitel:
Slađana Branković. 2022. “'The Truth is What Is in the Body': An Interview with Aleks Zain", in: Bilić, Nord & Milanović (eds.), Transgender in Post-Yugoslav Space: Lives, Activism, Culture. Bristol and Chicago: Policy Press. 196-207.
Artikel:
Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Encarnación and Slađana Branković. 2025. "Common Futures for All. Refugee Activism enacting Human Rights between Negation of Rights and Rexistance in Germany". In: Land, Garbe, and Gerharz (eds.) Struggles for Hope: Negotiating Future(s) in Times of Global Crises, JEP, Vol. XXXXI, Issue 2, 75-98.
Slađana Branković. 2017. “Mechanisms of Repression of Intersex Bodies in Films XXY and El último verano de la boyita and Representational Strategies of Resistance", Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres, Vol.5, 192-218.
- 12.06.2025. "Translating Experience into Political Resistance: Human Rights Discourse in Refugee and Migrant Struggle Against Politics of Isolation". The Migration Conference, University of Greenwich.
- 23.05.2025. "Naturalisierung und Kolonialität: Diskursive Schnittpunkte rassifizierender Geschlechterpolitiken". Guest lecture. Seminar: Natürlich gemacht. Goethe University Frankfurt.
- 17.06.2023: “Whiteness als Norm. Universalisierung weißer Erfahrungen und Geschlechternormen in T*I*N Forschung und Aktivismus", membraInes: 12. Jahrestagung der Fachgesellschaft Gender Studies, Halle
- 20.02.2023: “Nature, Progress, and Self-Determination: Intersex in Discursive Crossroads of Racialised Sex/Gender Politics", Centring Intersex: Global and Local Dimensions, International conference
Slađana Branković studied Cultural and Gender Studies at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and became a PhD fellow at the Hans Böckler Foundation in 2020. Since 2022 Branković is a PhD candidate at the Sociology Department, Goethe University Frankfurt, after initiating their research at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in 2020. They engage with subjects of naturalisation of Western sex/gender regimes, discursive strategies in intersex advocacy, and trans and intersex representation in visual arts and are active in different LGBTQI advocacy contexts. Slađa Brankovic is research associate in the DFG-Research Group Human Rights in the Migration Society (MeDiMi). They is responsible for the research project „Human rights discourses in political protest from refugees and undocumented migrants in Germany and the USA.
- Trans and Intersex Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Gender and Queer Studies
- Migration
- Anti/Decolonial Studies
- Discourse analysis
- Politics of representation
- Social Movements
Buchkapitel:
Slađana Branković. 2022. “'The Truth is What Is in the Body': An Interview with Aleks Zain", in: Bilić, Nord & Milanović (eds.), Transgender in Post-Yugoslav Space: Lives, Activism, Culture. Bristol and Chicago: Policy Press. 196-207.
Artikel:
Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Encarnación and Slađana Branković. 2025. "Common Futures for All. Refugee Activism enacting Human Rights between Negation of Rights and Rexistance in Germany". In: Land, Garbe, and Gerharz (eds.) Struggles for Hope: Negotiating Future(s) in Times of Global Crises, JEP, Vol. XXXXI, Issue 2, 75-98.
Slađana Branković. 2017. “Mechanisms of Repression of Intersex Bodies in Films XXY and El último verano de la boyita and Representational Strategies of Resistance", Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres, Vol.5, 192-218.
- 12.06.2025. "Translating Experience into Political Resistance: Human Rights Discourse in Refugee and Migrant Struggle Against Politics of Isolation". The Migration Conference, University of Greenwich.
- 23.05.2025. "Naturalisierung und Kolonialität: Diskursive Schnittpunkte rassifizierender Geschlechterpolitiken". Guest lecture. Seminar: Natürlich gemacht. Goethe University Frankfurt.
- 17.06.2023: “Whiteness als Norm. Universalisierung weißer Erfahrungen und Geschlechternormen in T*I*N Forschung und Aktivismus", membraInes: 12. Jahrestagung der Fachgesellschaft Gender Studies, Halle
- 20.02.2023: “Nature, Progress, and Self-Determination: Intersex in Discursive Crossroads of Racialised Sex/Gender Politics", Centring Intersex: Global and Local Dimensions, International conference
Dr. María Cárdenas
María Cárdenas is Research Associate and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, since 2022. She has an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies (Philipps University of Marburg) and recently completed her PhD at Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen. Her research interests include decolonial perspectives, critical race and ethnic studies, and critical peace studies. Since 2017, she conducts critical ethnography with Indigenous and Afro-Colombian activists in Colombia in their pursuit to pluriversalize peace-building. Before returning to the university, María Cárdenas has worked as advisor for context-sensitive peace-building in East Timor, Colombia, and Germany, inter alia for UNFPA, UNRCO and GIZ. Recently, her article "Why peacebuilding is condemned to fail if it ignores ethnicization. The case of Colombia.“ was published in the Peacebuilding journal.
- Critical Race Theory
- Anti- und dekoloniale Perspektiven (insb. auf Peace- und Statebuilding sowie internationale Zusammenarbeit)
- Herrschaftskritische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
- Lateinamerika (spez. Kolumbien und Guatemala)
- Soziale Bewegungen (und ihr dekolonisierendes Potential)
- Afrolatin* und Indigene Onto-epistemische Kämpfe
Veröffentlichte und angenommene Artikel in indexierten Journals und Buchkapitel (peer-review):
Cárdenas, M.; Henao, E.; Palacios, A. (im Erscheinen): Epistemologías decoloniales y de los pueblos hacia la construcción de paz en Colombia. Una propuesta pluriétnica para el debate internacional sobre la construcción de paz. In: Peters et al: Aportes a los Estudios de Conflicto y Construcción de Paz desde la academia colombiana. UNAL / CAPAZ, Colombia.
Cárdenas, M.; Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E; Ehrich, C. (im Erscheinen): Decolonizing Diversity in Equal Treatment Policies – Higher Education and the Tensions Between Diversity, Racism Critique, and Colonialism.
- 03.2023: Panel „ Female Faces of Conflict: Women at the Foreground of War, Peace, and Change“ vom Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDAmU8D-gw
- 06.2022: Panel “Intersectionality" des Forums “Dialogues between Academia and Civil Society", organisiert von Nodo Alemania de Apoyo a la CEV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t3e1gGSJQ
María Cárdenas is Research Associate and lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, since 2022. She has an M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies (Philipps University of Marburg) and recently completed her PhD at Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen. Her research interests include decolonial perspectives, critical race and ethnic studies, and critical peace studies. Since 2017, she conducts critical ethnography with Indigenous and Afro-Colombian activists in Colombia in their pursuit to pluriversalize peace-building. Before returning to the university, María Cárdenas has worked as advisor for context-sensitive peace-building in East Timor, Colombia, and Germany, inter alia for UNFPA, UNRCO and GIZ. Recently, her article "Why peacebuilding is condemned to fail if it ignores ethnicization. The case of Colombia.“ was published in the Peacebuilding journal.
- Critical Race Theory
- Anti- und dekoloniale Perspektiven (insb. auf Peace- und Statebuilding sowie internationale Zusammenarbeit)
- Herrschaftskritische Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
- Lateinamerika (spez. Kolumbien und Guatemala)
- Soziale Bewegungen (und ihr dekolonisierendes Potential)
- Afrolatin* und Indigene Onto-epistemische Kämpfe
Veröffentlichte und angenommene Artikel in indexierten Journals und Buchkapitel (peer-review):
Cárdenas, M.; Henao, E.; Palacios, A. (im Erscheinen): Epistemologías decoloniales y de los pueblos hacia la construcción de paz en Colombia. Una propuesta pluriétnica para el debate internacional sobre la construcción de paz. In: Peters et al: Aportes a los Estudios de Conflicto y Construcción de Paz desde la academia colombiana. UNAL / CAPAZ, Colombia.
Cárdenas, M.; Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E; Ehrich, C. (im Erscheinen): Decolonizing Diversity in Equal Treatment Policies – Higher Education and the Tensions Between Diversity, Racism Critique, and Colonialism.
- 03.2023: Panel „ Female Faces of Conflict: Women at the Foreground of War, Peace, and Change“ vom Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChDAmU8D-gw
- 06.2022: Panel “Intersectionality" des Forums “Dialogues between Academia and Civil Society", organisiert von Nodo Alemania de Apoyo a la CEV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-t3e1gGSJQ
