When: Friday, October 8, 2021, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PMWhere: Online
The workshop explores Halley et al.’s concept of ‘governance feminism’, and the postcolonial and TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) critique, but also raises broader questions about feminist engagements with state institutions and colonial projects, and their alternatives, including more radical feminist futures based on indigenous conceptualizations of life, politics and justice or experiments with feminist community beyond the nation-state and the capitalist economy.
With Vasuki Nesiah (NYU), Prof. Ratna Kapur (QMUL), Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (QMUL), Dilar Dirik (Oxford), and Silvana Tapia Tapia (Universidad del Azuay) and
Euro-American feminism has a complex history of both contesting and colluding with empire. Feminist efforts to liberate women not only often omitted racialized and colonized people but even cemented their marginalization. Whether the motivation was to protect white women from black men or to save Indian women from widow immolation, these imperial ties have often been eclipsed in the standard narration of feminist history as three or four waves that celebrate the struggles of feminists in Europe and North America.
This event has been organized by Leila Ullrich (Law), Sydney Calkin (Geography) and Claire English (Business & Management) and is generously supported through the IHSS Early Career Workshop Funding scheme grant. Co-hosted by the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)