{"id":3453,"date":"2023-03-20T16:21:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/?page_id=3453"},"modified":"2023-03-20T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:35:54","slug":"abril","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/people\/current-members\/abril\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Abril"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; clear: left;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3266\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/sts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Abril_PB.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white Photo of Ana Abril, looking confidently into the camera with a slight smile \" width=\"154\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin with funding provided by DAAD scholarship. I am pursuing a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies at Central European University, working on the project \u201cThe Decolonial Cannibal and the Social Holobiont: The Politics of Ontology in Contemporary Theories Advancing Ecological Thinking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>My main research interests include feminist theories of the body, queer theory, continental philosophy, critical pedagogy, and contemporary art practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; margin-bottom: 5px;\">Contact: <a href=\"mailto:abril_ana@phd.ceu.edu\">abril_ana@phd.ceu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More information on my doctoral\/habilitation research:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My project explores the political gestures in the ontological turns in the strands of medical and environmental humanities in STS, anthropology, new materialisms, and the discourses of Indigenous scholars. I identify how these different strands either relate to the decolonial claim of ontological multiplicity and plurality (the decolonial cannibal) or to the materialist theorization of an ontologically indeterminate and complex world (the social holobiont). The social holobiont and the decolonial cannibal represent two different corpuses of discourse that are in themselves not singular nor homogenous nor independent from each other. I approach my argument by looking into the ways in which ontologization takes place together with the employment of alimentary tropes across different texts. I argue that the gestures of ontologization of the figures of the decolonial cannibal and the social holobiont seem unable to examine the conditions of their own appearance or, in other words, to account for contemporary structures of power, such as class, race, gender, sexuality, and their intersections. Also, these complex ontologizations display the inability of addressing the subject of ethics. The reason I chose some strands over others is the focus on the notions of agency and subjectivity that problematize modernist ontology and its assumptions, concretely the human\/non-human division. I refer to the method of my dissertation as an attentive reading doing deconstructive work. In other words, my methodology is influenced by the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, particularly regarding the significance that the author gives to the rhetoric nature of the text, his reflections on metaphoricity, and, especially, the tropes of eating.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding: 10px 0 0 0;\">Publications<\/h1>\n<div class=\"teachpress_pub_list\"><form name=\"tppublistform\" method=\"get\"><a name=\"tppubs\" id=\"tppubs\"><\/a><\/form><div class=\"teachpress_publication_list\"><h3 class=\"tp_h3\" id=\"tp_h3_2022\">2022<\/h3><div class=\"tp_publication tp_publication_incollection\"><div class=\"tp_pub_info\"><p class=\"tp_pub_author\">Ana Abril<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_title\">M\u00e1s Que Nudes: Autoetnograf\u00eda de Una Resistencia Micropol\u00edtica a La Normatividad Sexual Durante El Distanciamento F\u00edsico Por COVID-19 <span class=\"tp_pub_type tp_  incollection\">Book Section<\/span> <\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_additional\"><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_in\">In: <\/span> Myriam Oviedo C\u00f3rdoba. (Ed.): <span class=\"tp_pub_additional_publisher\"> Armenia, Quind\u00edo: Editorial Kinesis, <\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_year\">2022<\/span>.<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_menu\"><\/p><div class=\"tp_bibtex\" id=\"tp_bibtex_758\" style=\"display:none;\"><div class=\"tp_bibtex_entry\"><pre>@incollection{Abril2022,<br \/>\r\ntitle = {M\u00e1s Que Nudes: Autoetnograf\u00eda de Una Resistencia Micropol\u00edtica a La Normatividad Sexual Durante El Distanciamento F\u00edsico Por COVID-19},<br \/>\r\nauthor = {Ana Abril},<br \/>\r\neditor = { Myriam Oviedo C\u00f3rdoba.},<br \/>\r\nyear  = {2022},<br \/>\r\ndate = {2022-10-01},<br \/>\r\nurldate = {2022-10-01},<br \/>\r\npublisher = { Armenia, Quind\u00edo: Editorial Kinesis},<br \/>\r\nedition = {Geopol\u00edtica de Las Emociones: Vida Cotidiana de J\u00f3venes En Aislamiento Social Por COVID-19},<br \/>\r\nkeywords = {},<br \/>\r\npubstate = {published},<br \/>\r\ntppubtype = {incollection}<br \/>\r\n}<br \/>\r\n<\/pre><\/div><p class=\"tp_close_menu\"><a class=\"tp_close\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('758','tp_bibtex')\">Close<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><h3 class=\"tp_h3\" id=\"tp_h3_2021\">2021<\/h3><div class=\"tp_publication tp_publication_incollection\"><div class=\"tp_pub_info\"><p class=\"tp_pub_author\">Cecilia Cienfuegos, Ana Abril<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_title\">Cannibalising Violence: Rethinking the Cannibal in Order to Theorise an Unthinkability of Sexual Violence <span class=\"tp_pub_type tp_  incollection\">Book Section<\/span> <\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_additional\"><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_in\">In: <\/span>Giulia Champion (Ed.): <span class=\"tp_pub_additional_publisher\">Warwick Series in the Humanities. London and New York: Routledge, <\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_year\">2021<\/span>.<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_menu\"><\/p><div class=\"tp_bibtex\" id=\"tp_bibtex_759\" style=\"display:none;\"><div class=\"tp_bibtex_entry\"><pre>@incollection{Cienfuegos2021,<br \/>\r\ntitle = {Cannibalising Violence: Rethinking the Cannibal in Order to Theorise an Unthinkability of Sexual Violence},<br \/>\r\nauthor = {Cecilia Cienfuegos and Ana Abril},<br \/>\r\neditor = {Giulia Champion},<br \/>\r\nyear  = {2021},<br \/>\r\ndate = {2021-03-01},<br \/>\r\nurldate = {2021-03-01},<br \/>\r\npublisher = {Warwick Series in the Humanities. London and New York: Routledge},<br \/>\r\nkeywords = {},<br \/>\r\npubstate = {published},<br \/>\r\ntppubtype = {incollection}<br \/>\r\n}<br \/>\r\n<\/pre><\/div><p class=\"tp_close_menu\"><a class=\"tp_close\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('759','tp_bibtex')\">Close<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><h3 class=\"tp_h3\" id=\"tp_h3_2019\">2019<\/h3><div class=\"tp_publication tp_publication_online\"><div class=\"tp_pub_info\"><p class=\"tp_pub_author\">Ana Abril<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_title\"><a class=\"tp_title_link\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('760','tp_links')\" style=\"cursor:pointer;\">Washing the Dishes with Her Afro-Textured Hair: Aesthetic Innovation in the Performance Bombril by Priscila Rezende<\/a> <span class=\"tp_pub_type tp_  online\">Online<\/span> <\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_additional\"><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_year\">2019<\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_urldate\">, visited: 02.03.2019<\/span>.<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_menu\"><span class=\"tp_resource_link\"><a id=\"tp_links_sh_760\" class=\"tp_show\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('760','tp_links')\" title=\"Show links and resources\" style=\"cursor:pointer;\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class=\"tp_bibtex\" id=\"tp_bibtex_760\" style=\"display:none;\"><div class=\"tp_bibtex_entry\"><pre>@online{Abril2019,<br \/>\r\ntitle = {Washing the Dishes with Her Afro-Textured Hair: Aesthetic Innovation in the Performance Bombril by Priscila Rezende},<br \/>\r\nauthor = {Ana Abril},<br \/>\r\nurl = {https:\/\/moed.online\/washing-dishes-with-afro-textured-hair-bombril-priscila-rezende\/ },<br \/>\r\nyear  = {2019},<br \/>\r\ndate = {2019-03-02},<br \/>\r\nurldate = {2019-03-02},<br \/>\r\nissue = {MOED},<br \/>\r\nkeywords = {},<br \/>\r\npubstate = {published},<br \/>\r\ntppubtype = {online}<br \/>\r\n}<br \/>\r\n<\/pre><\/div><p class=\"tp_close_menu\"><a class=\"tp_close\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('760','tp_bibtex')\">Close<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"tp_links\" id=\"tp_links_760\" style=\"display:none;\"><div class=\"tp_links_entry\"><ul class=\"tp_pub_list\"><li><i class=\"fas fa-globe\"><\/i><a class=\"tp_pub_list\" href=\"https:\/\/moed.online\/washing-dishes-with-afro-textured-hair-bombril-priscila-rezende\/\" title=\"https:\/\/moed.online\/washing-dishes-with-afro-textured-hair-bombril-priscila-reze[...]\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/moed.online\/washing-dishes-with-afro-textured-hair-bombril-priscila-reze[...]<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><p class=\"tp_close_menu\"><a class=\"tp_close\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('760','tp_links')\">Close<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a visiting fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin with funding provided by DAAD scholarship. 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