Thursday 14 November, 2-4pm, Campus Condorcet, Conference Center, Room 3.08
In Part I of this workshop, I’ll introduce some early thoughts from my new research on re-writing feminist standpoint theory to start from the question of struggle: in terms of histories, locations, politics and embodiment. The work proposes foregrounding struggle in developing methodologies to animate solidarity across and within difference. The work expands prior methodological work of mine on ‘recitation’ – animating minor precedents to dominant thinking – and on ‘affective solidarity’ – starting from dissonance and discomfort over identity to forge alliances – as ways of countering right-wing teleologies and affects. I look forward to hearing your thoughts about this work, and to sharing its aims and stumbling blocks.
In Part II, I want us to work together to ask: In the present tense of heightened military violence, border control and incarceration, why are transnational feminist epistemologies and methodologies so important? What are the feminist resources that you have found useful – past or present – in animating difference and solidarity in your own research? What epistemological and/or methodological approaches do you think of as helpful in responding to times of heightened violence and conflict? The second part of the workshop will thus be interactive and focused on sharing you own feminist research commitments.
The workshop is for doctoral and Masters students in Gender Studies, organised by LEGS Paris 8. Part I will be in English, but the Q&A can be in French or English, as can Part II