Vés enrere Garcia Fernandez, Francisco Javier

GARCIA FERNANDEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER

FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA FERNANDEZ
Departament d'Humanitats
Humanitats / GRIMSE
Investigador Juan de la Cierva
Javier García Fernández, PhD in Postcolonial Studies, University of Coimbra where he did his doctoral thesis with sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. He have been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Granada and a visiting scholar at the Latinx Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. García Fernández’s research focus is on the history of the conquest of Al-Andalus from a global perspective, the Spanish Empire, the relationship between fascism and imperialism, postcolonial studies, and decolonial theory. García Fernández is the author of Descolonizar Europa: Ensayos para pensar históricamente desde el sur (2019), Más allá del Arabismo y el Medievalismo: Al-Ándalus en perspectiva Poscolonial (2021), and with Ramón Grosfoguel and José Antonio Pérez Tapias editor of Descolonizar las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. Perspectivas desde Andalucía y el sur de Europa (2021). García Fernández is currently coordinator of the Andalusian Seminar of the Decolonial Thought.