Salma Amazian holds a degree in History and Social Anthropology and a PhD in Migratory Studies from the Institute of Migrations (University of Granada). A militant advocate of anti-racism who fights against Islamophobia in different spaces and collectives of racialised people, she writes for El Salto’s blog 1492, por un antirracismo politico (1492, for Political Anti-Racism), a space which analyses and denounces Racism in the Spanish State from a decolonial perspective.
Elisa Fuenzalida is a researcher in critical methodologies applied to gender, race and territorialisation in the Situated Feminisms group (Museo Reina Sofía Study Centre). She is currently studying an MA in Social Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Dánae García Lopez is an attorney and an anti-racist and decolonial activist, dedicating and critically aligning her practice with legislation and pre-conceived legal concepts. She chiefly works in Foreigner Internment Centres (CIEs) and in related environments with non-white migrants inside a framework to dismantle institutional racism.
Mario Rufer is a professor and researcher in the Department of Education and Communication from the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Unidad Xochimilco. He has served as visiting lecturer at UCLA, Los Angeles; Bielefeld Universität, Germany; and the University of Córdoba and the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, among others. His lines of research are centred around cultural studies and postcolonial criticism, subaltern studies and the epistemological problems surrounding heritage, archive and public memory.
Rita Segato is a professor of Anthropology and Bioethics in the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics at the University of Brasilia. She was an expert witness in the trials of the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala, where, for the first time, sexual violence and domestic and sexual slavery were condemned as strategic objectives of war employed by the State. Her main fields of interest focus on new forms of violence against women and the contemporary consequences of the coloniality of power. Most notably, her works include: Las estructuras elementales de la violencia (Buenos Aires, 2013), La Nación y sus Otros (Buenos Aires, 2007) and La Crítica de la Colonialidad en Ocho Ensayos y una antropología por demanda (2015).
