The members of the professorship are interested in decolonial perspectives of social analysis and theory; critical theory, feminist and queer theory; and epistemologies of the South as well as critical migration and racism studies.
In terms of content, this is done by focusing on thematic fields such as coloniality and migration/refugee, global inequality, racial capitalism, (neo-)extractivism, memory-political struggles, intersectional structural violence, material feminisms, solidarity, conviviality and creolisation. Research projects take place on topics such as migration, feminism and memory politics; human rights and precarious/undocumented migration; affect and labour; city, transculturation and conviviality; institutional racism at the university.
Currently, Prof. Dr. Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez is working on issues of decolonial mourning, creolising conviviality, institutional racism and affect in higher education, human rights and the coloniality of migration.