Esta palestra será leccionada em Inglês
Esta atividade é uma das duas participadas por Dana Francisco Miranda e organizada pelo GIGPQ do CRIA. Neste evento, o filósofo Dana Miranda irá apresentar o seu atual projeto de livro, A Colonialidade da Felicidade. Neste projeto, Miranda explora a forma como se pode e deve entender o bem-estar negro num mundo estruturado pelo racismo e pela colonialidade. Utilizando principalmente as obras do psiquiatra e filósofo afro-martinicano Frantz Fanon e o seu relato de "sociodiagnóstico", este projeto examina a depressão e o suicídio na diáspora africana. Recorrendo à fenomenologia existencial, à filosofia africana e a modelos psiquiátricos, Miranda argumenta que os sujeitos afro-diaspóricos enfrentam um mal-estar sistemático sob disposições sociopolíticas "desordenadas".
A sessão será seguida de uma receção a partir das 19 horas.
Sobre o autor:
Dana Francisco Miranda is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He graduated with a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Connecticut-Storrs investigating the philosophical significance of suicide, depression and well-being among the Africana Diaspora. He currently serves as Secretary for Digital Outreach & Chair of Architectonics for the Caribbean Philosophical Association[1], Faculty Fellow for the Applied Ethics Center (University of Massachusetts Boston)[2], and Co-Director for PIKSI-Boston (Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute)[3]. Some of Miranda’s recent peer-reviewed publications include “Hierarchies of Foreignness: The Writing of Man in the New World” (Journal of World Philosophies, 2021), “Signals Crossed: White Double Consciousness and the Role of the Critic” (Philosophy of Education, 2021), and “The Violence of Leadership in Black Lives Matter” (The Movement for Black Lives, 2021). In his upcoming book project, Dr. Miranda draws from the philosophy of Frantz Fanon and auto-ethnography, among other methodological approaches, to bring attention to how mental health is the product of “systematic unwellness under disordered sociopolitical arrangements.”[4] In the process, Miranda provides a critical understanding of what it means to suffer from depression and to provide mental health care in a world “disordered” by “coloniality and racism.”
[1] The Caribbean Philosophical Association (caribbeanphilosophy.org)
[2] https://www.umb.edu/ethics/
[3] PIKSI-Boston (weebly.com)
[4] https://www.danafmiranda.com/
