Maria Mies, a thinker, a scholar, a
feminist, a sociologist, a philosopher,
an ecologist, a friend, a comrade, a commoner, an
anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, anti-capitalist organizer
and activist.
She fought to break through all these divisions to reaffirm and help redefine what it could mean the notion of an organic intellectual, what could mean a life of acting and thinking together, developing a praxis that at one turn would realize and another speculate and theorize, in tandem, without ever succumbing to academicism or to a form of actionism devoid of a deeper experimentation and inquiry into what it is to live, to live together, to live a good life. She will remain one of the twentieth and twenty first century's most thorough critics of capitalist modernity and its intimate connections to patriarchy and continuous forms of colonization.
In Memoriam
This Sunday June 4th together with Farida Akhter, Silvia Federici, and Vandana Shiva we would like to invite you to join us in remembering, celebrating, and marking together the passing of a friend and comrade Maria Mies.
We hope to use this occasion to
collectively recall, be present to and reflect upon this
immense loss. And at the same time, we would like to use
this opportunity to invoke the abundance of gifts Maria
leaves behind for us to continue to use, play with,
imagine, analyze, critique and struggle not only against
... ongoing forms of patriarchal, racial, colonial,
capitalist violence but also toward ... reclaiming the
very forms of life which such processes of exploitation,
expropriation, enclosure and extraction have sought and
continue to seek to objectify, devalue and destroy.
In addition to Farida, Silvia and Vandana
... we are very grateful to be joined by some of Maria's
closest friends, collaborators, co-actions-researchers
from the last decades including:
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Mira Shiva,
Rhoda Reddock,
Vibhuti Patel, Renate Klein, Susan Hawthorne
Jyotsna Gupta, Ireen Dubel, Chhaya Datar
&
Maria's lifelong companion
Saral Sarkar
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MARIA MIES: A CALL TO RECALL
We are including the video from the
ceremony below.
This video begins with a walk taken in
2011 in the surrounds of her village. It concludes with
Saral and Maria in the outskirts of Cologne, inventing and
singing songs on May Day 2022.
In order of appearance
Farida Akhter
Vandana Shiva
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen
Renate Klein
Susan Hawthorne
Silvia Federici
Mira Shiva
Chhaya Datar
Vibhuti Patel
Rhoda Reddock
Jyotsna Gupta
Ireen Dubel
Saral Sarkar
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Two Artist Videos
Online Especially for this Occasion
Maria Mies: The Subsistence
Perspective
as part of Alternative Economics, Alternative
Societies
video by Oliver Ressler
https://vimeo.com/192442047
A Continuous Film Altered Daily: Day
6
video by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri
http://parksluksemburg.com/films/continuous
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Related Resources
‘Ecofeminism’: a talk about hard work and
great joy
https://roarmag.org/essays/ecofeminism-maria-mies-interview/
Passing away Emeritus Professor Maria
Mies
https://www.iss.nl/en/news/passing-away-emeritus-professor-maria-mies
Vale Maria Mies (1931-2023)
https://www.spinifexpress.com.au/blog/vale-maria-mies
Farewell to the world-famous eco-feminist
and opponent of globalization Maria Mies
https://then24.com/2023/05/27/farewell-to-the-world-famous-eco-feminist-and-opponent-of-globalization-maria-mies/
Vandana Shiva on Maria Mies: Her stay in
India helped her see that women’s work was economy’s
foundation
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-climate/vandana-shiva-on-maria-mies-ecofeminism-8620566/
Pune recalls association with Maria Mies,
German sociologist and ecofeminist who died at 92
https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/recalls-association-maria-mies-german-sociologist-ecofeminist-died-8614877/
Jineology Academy: We remember the wise
Maria Mies with respect and gratitude
https://test.jinhaagency.com/en/actual/jineology-academy-we-remember-the-wise-maria-mies-with-respect-and-gratitude-33301
KJK pays tribute on the death of Prof.
Maria Miles
https://anfenglish.com/women/kjk-pays-tribute-on-the-death-of-prof-maria-miles-67251
Maria Mies, 92
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/maria-mies-92-nachruf-a-66b88048-3266-4851-b8c2-a16a2c663a78
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Additional Audio Video
Maria Mies video by Jeanny Gering
https://vimeo.com/88111566
Maria Mies - The Global in the Local, an Eco-Feminist Perspective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3k81ItIS8s
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Biographical Audio Video (in German)
Die 89jährige Prof. Maria Mies liest aus
ihrer Autobiografie über das 'Politische Nachtgebet'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxuy1cPI50s&t=83s
2018 Interview with Maria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-J-_5D-NS8&t=15s
Erlebte Geschichten mit Maria Mies
https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/sendungen/erlebtegeschichten/miesmaria102.html