Francesca Borgarello


Biography

Francesca Borgarello is a PhD student in the program Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship at Centro de Estudos Sociais and at the Faculty of Economics, Coimbra University. She obtained a master degree in Philosophy from the University of Turin, Italy, with a thesis entitled "Towards a Critical Theory of Crisis. Rahel Jaeggi and Nancy Fraser". She also earned the final diploma of the Scuola di Studi Superiori Ferdinando Rossi, University of Turin, with a final dissertation entitled "Provincializing Europe Twenty Years On: the Postcolonial Reconsidered". She took part in two Erasmus for study projects - at University of Aix-Marseille and at University of Paris Nanterre - and two Erasmus Traineeship projects - at Sophiapol (University of Paris Nanterre) and in the research unit Historia y Ontología del Presente. La Perspectiva Hispánica (Complutense University of Madrid). She obtained the final diploma from the postgraduate course Teoria critica della società (University of Milano-Bicocca) and she has completed the postgraduate course Estudios críticos. Entre el marxismo y lo nacional-popular (University of Buenos Aires). Her current research focuses on Indian Subaltern Studies. Her main research interests are situated in the field of postcolonialisms, and at the intersection of political theory, contemporary philosophy, social theory, critical theory.