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Macarena ³Òó³¾±ð³ú-µþ²¹°ù°ù¾±²õ is Professor and Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She is also Director of the Global South Center (GSC), a research center that works at the intersection of social ecologies, art / politics, and decolonial methodologies. Her instructional focus is on Latinx and Latin American Studies, memory and the afterlives of violence, decolonial theory, the art of social protest, and queer femme epistemes.Ìý

Macarena is author ofÌýWhere Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in ChileÌý(2009), co-editor with Herman Gray ofÌýTowards a Sociology of the TraceÌý(2010),ÌýThe Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial PerspectivesÌý(2017) andÌýBeyond the Pink Tide: Art and Politics in the AmericasÌý(forthcoming UC Press, 2018).Ìý

³Òó³¾±ð³ú-µþ²¹°ù°ù¾±²õ is series editor, with Diana Taylor, ofÌýDissident Acts, a Duke University Press Series, and was Fulbright Fellow at FLACSO-Quito in Ecuador (2014–15). She is the current co-editor with Marcial Godoy-Anatavia of e-misférica, an online trilingual journal on hemispheric art and politics (NYU). And, she is a member of theÌýSocial TextÌýjournal collective.

At Pratt Institute, she works with a vibrant community of scholars, activists, intellectuals, and students to find alternatives to the impasses produced by racial and extractive capitalism.Ìý