The Pluriverse: Challenges of Post- Developmentalist Thought for Global South Studies

• Susanne Goumegou (Romance Philology / University of Tübingen): Romance Philology and Literature: Global South Studies - Focus on Francophone Literatures in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sebastian Thies (Romance Philology / University of Tübingen): Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, Film and Media of Latin America, Global South Studies, Ethnic Studies
• Riccarda Flemmer (University of Tübingen): Focus on Indigenous Rights, Environment Law, Critical Studies upon Development, and Empirical work on Latin America and Amazon.
• Bacary Sarr (Faculty of literature and human sciences, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal): Directeur des études de l'Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Cultures(ISAC)/UCAD; comparative literary studies, cultural studies
• Isaline Bergamaschi (Department of Political Science and REPI / Université libre de Bruxelles): Sociology of international development, intervention in Mali and South-South cooperation, globalisation and International Political Economy
• René Ramírez (Universidad Autónomade México): Economista. Focus on Political Socioecology, ways of knowledge and "buen vivir" Post developmentalist Theories and Democracy    
• Fatoumata Keita (Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Bamako, Mali): Malian writer of novels, poetry, and essays. Focus on contemporary Malian society, both urban and rural.
• Jhonny Hendrix, Afro-Colombian filmmaker, and activist. Director of several films, music videos, documentaries, and short films. His films include "Chocó", "Candelaria" and "Saudó".
• Angela Iranzo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Focus on International Relations; Migration, Diasporas, and Peace Geographies; Human Trafficking; Spiritualities and Post-secular Political Practices.
• Patricia Gualinga (Activist, and human rights defender from the Amazon region of Ecuador).
• Esteban Morera ( University of Tübingen) is the coordinator of the research cooperation at the Brasilien Zentrum of the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on temporalities in political communication.
• Thaïs Machado-Borges (Stockholm University) has a PhD and an Associate Professor’s degree (docent, in Swedish) in Social Anthropology. She is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and since January 2022, Director of the Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies, at Stockholm University. Machado-Borges has conducted several years of fieldwork in southeastern Brazil and researched topics such as popular culture (telenovelas), class and consumption, bodily grooming and modification, overconsumption, and the meanings of waste.  She is the principal investigator of an ongoing interdisciplinary research project entitled “Gender Troubled? Cultural Wars on Sexuality, Gender, Religion, and Politics in Contemporary Brazil.”
• Dilip Menon (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) is a Professor of History at, the Department of International Relations and Director of, the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand. Dilip does research in World Literatures, Cultural History, and Cultural Anthropology. His current project is on thinking about the historical imagination in South Asia.
• Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University)- TBC is currently a  professor at Columbia University. His work is focused on the history of logic and mathematics, epistemology, the tradition of philosophy in the Islamic world, identity formation, and African literature and philosophies.
• Renata de Sá Gonçalves (Universidade Federal Fluminense) is currently a professor and vice director at the Department of Anthropology of Universidade Federal Fluminense. Has worked mainly with Brazilian social thought, urban anthropology, ritual, and symbolism, cultural policies, education, management, and preservation of cultural heritage.
• Roberto Robalinho (Universidade Federal Fluminense) is a Post Doctoral Student in Communication at the University of Tübingen where he develops research in the international cooperation project "Discomforting Territories: images, narratives, and objects of the Global South". Works with the relationship between image, politics, and social contexts, and is currently developing his first feature film that addresses the social and symbolic geography of the hinterland of Guimarães Rosa.
• Alain S. Agnessan (UFHB Abidjan) currently is a Doctoral student, who works with philosophy, literature, film, and post-colonial theory.
• Cristopher Coñoman Moreno Mapuche is a rapper musician

Staff

• Ana Clara Alves de Oliveira (Ph.D. Candidate UFF/UT): Organiser