Jeanette Ehrmann is a research associate at the Department of Political Science at Justus Liebig University Giessen. In her doctoral thesis “Tropes of Freedom. The Haitian Revolution and the Decolonization of the Political”, she reconstructed the ideas and practices of political agency and emancipation in the Haitian Revolution. Her current project – “From Human Capital to Banana Republics. Unsettling the Coloniality of Neoliberalism” – seeks to develop a decolonial critique of
neoliberalism.