Abstracts accepted in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Anindita Datta
In this session, papers exploring the feminist dissidences in the global south are invited. It is argued that such dissidences need to be understood against the cultural and socio- geographical contexts against which they are performed. Failure to contextualize such dissidence often results in women from the south being seen as devoid of agency, passive and appear to have “active collusion in the reproduction of their own subordination” (Kandiyoti 1988, p. 280). Drawing upon Nancy Hiemestra’s notion of ‘periscoping’ to uncover what is hidden (Hiemestra 2017), this session builds upon my earlier work on resistance and agency (Datta 2020) to offer the opportunity to outline feminist dissidence of women in Southern societies. Such dissidence plays out both within homes and private spaces for personal agency as well as over public spaces of the city for issues concerning participation in civic life, a gendered right to the city and inclusive citizenship. Some of the questions to be considered are what makes such dissidence feminist? How are religiosity and everyday banal acts such as cooking or gardening, as well as art, music and humour deployed to articulate such dissidence? How does women’s participation in resistance movements look like? What do the recent protests of women in Iran, Afghanistan, India tell us about feminist dissidence in the Global South?
REFERENCES
Datta, Anindita. “Reinterpreting resistance and agency: Excavating feminist counterspaces within indigenous feminisms.” In Gender, Space and Agency in India, pp. 145-159. Routledge India, 2020.
Hiemstra, Nancy. “Periscoping as a Feminist Methodological Approach for Researching the Seemingly Hidden.” The Professional Geographer 69, no. 2 (2017): 329–36.
Kandiyoti, Deniz. “Bargaining with Patriarchy.” Gender and Society 2, no. 3 (1988): 274–90.