Sunday — 06.04.23 — Maria Mies – A Call to Recall
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Contents:
0. In Memoriam
1. Introduction
2. To Join Virtually
3. Two Artist Videos
Online Especially for this Occasion
4. Related Resources
5. Additional Audio Video
6. Biographical Audio Video (in German)
http://16beavergroup.org/maria/
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0. In Memoriam
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 every 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.
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1. Introduction
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
Christoph Gehrke
Gertrude Fester
Ireen Dubel
Chhaya Datar
and of course
Maria’s lifelong companion
Saral Sarkar
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2. To Join Virtually
To receive instructions for joining virtually please write to:
mai [at] 16beavergroup.org
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3. 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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4. 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
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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5. 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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6. 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