Julian Vigo

Julian Vigo is a scholar, filmmaker, artist, permaculturalist, dj, yogi, and activist. Raised all over this planet, she has created work which is informed as much by the books she has read and the movies she has seen as the people with whom she has worked and dialogued. Julian Vigo is a specialist in contemporary ethnography, cultural studies, cinema, postcolonial theory, and media and gender studies. Julian Vigo has been at professor at universities across the world where she has taught anthropology, comparative literature, performance studies, cultural studies, theory, philosophy of science, postmodernism, and gender studies.

Julian Vigo is currently finishing two manuscripts, one dealing with disappearance in the Americas (New York and Buenos Aires) and the other on "cultural violence" in which she examines the role of "violence" in the restructuring of urban space in Fez (Morocco) and studies the role of shahid (witness, martyr) in Palestine through actions of the suicide bomber and the definitions of her death and life, post-mortem. Her latest books are Performative Bodies, Hybrid Tongues:Race, Gender, and Modernity in Latin America and the Maghreb (Peter Lang, 2010) and Earthquake in Haiti: The Pornography of Poverty and t...