Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena
Postdoctoral Researcher, Communication Studies, Concordia University
Access in the Making Lab, Concordia University
2022- 2023 Member of the SSHRC Advisory Committee to Address Barriers to Accessibility
2021 – PhD Women’s Studies, University of Granada, Spain
2016 – MA in Arts & Culture by completing the programme in GEMMA: Erasmus Master Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Dresda analyzes how to survive the contemporary world when we have a wounded, sick, culturally built, or destroyed body from the state’s violent structures that work in convergence with neoliberal capitalism. She has analyzed some experiences of women with fibromyalgia in Andalusia, Spain, and the way they make us think of other political imaginations created from self-care and human-nonhuman support networks that refuse to replicate the logic of violence that underlies the modern colonial project. Her current research project explores a complex phenomenon of extractive mining processes, disabled ecologies, land struggle, community health, and community resistance through the lens of an edible insect characteristic of an indigenous community in her home country.
Books
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. Estados Mórbidos. El desgaste corporal en la vida contemporánea. Kaótica Libros, Madrid, 2022.
Sánchez Espinosa, Adelina, and Dresda E. Méndez de la Brena (eds.). Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences. Researching with GEMMA series. Vol. 1, Peter Lang, Bern, 2022.
Book Chapters
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “Ultrajes. Escenarios morbopolíticos contemporáneos de la enfermedad.” Gobernar los cuerpos: la biopolítica como caja de herramientas. Edited by Daniel J. García López, Tirant le Blanc, 2022, pp. 219-242.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “‘Caring Matter’. A queer love story between (her) body and (cigarrete) object.” Affective Intimacies. Edited by Annuka Lahtu, Marjo Koleh, and Kinneret Lahad, Manchester UP, 2022, pp. 27-44.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “‘Researching with the Trouble’ A Journey of Troublesome Feelings and Affective Methodologies.” Affective Convergences: transforming research through feminist alliances. Edited by Adelina Sánchez Espinoza and Dresda Emma Méndez de la Brena. Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 195-216.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “Feminist Research Alliances: Affective Convergences. Searching for Directions in Affective Convergences: transforming research through feminist alliances. Edited by Adelina Sánchez Espinoza and Dresda Emma Méndez de la Brena. Peter Lang, 2022, pp. 195-216.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “Morbid States, Struggling Bodies.” Falsework, Smalltalk. Political Education, Aesthetic Archives, and Recitations of a Future in Common. Edited by Abbas Asma, and Eubank Colin, Common Tern Work, 2021, pp. 169-170.
Articles
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “Desde mi cama revuelta. Reflexiones tullidas para una revolución en horizontal.” [From My Bed, Revolted. Crippled Reflections for a Horizontal Revolution], re-visiones no. 11.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. (2021). “Estados Mórbidos. Un análisis necropolítico de la fibromialgia en las sociedades contemporáneas” [«Morbid States». A Necropolitical Analysis of Fibromyalgia in Contemporary Societies] Oxímora Revista Internacional de Ética y Política NÚM. 19. JUL-DIC 2021, pp. 1-18. doi: 10.1344/oxi.2022.i19.34241.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E., and Cornelia Schönmann. “Lucid dreaming as a method for living otherwise.” Sociology and Technoscience, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 125-151. doi.org/10.24197/st.1.2021.125-151.
Sánchez Espinosa, María Adelina, and Dresda Emma. “Searching for Eccentricity”. Sociology and Technoscience, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 125-151. doi.org/10.24197/st.1.2021.125-151.
Méndez de la Brena, Dresda E. “Vivir a destiempo. Hacia una política irreverente de vivir con dolor cronificado.” Papeles del CEIC, no.2, 2021, pp. 1-18. doi.org/10.1387/pceic.20969.
Exhibitions
Digital Photography Exhibition “Capturing Chronic Illnesses.” Curated by Ingrid Young (University of Edinburgh), and Donna McCormack (University of Surrey). Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, University of Edinburgh. November 20th, 2020. www.capturing-chronic-illness.com/2020/11/12/dresda-emma-mendez-de-la-brenagranada-spain-6-photos/
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