Politics and Poetics of Feminist Strike in the Postsocialist/Postcolonial Encounter

  • Thomas, K. (Speaker)
  • Ksenia Robbe (Speaker)
  • Judith Naeff (Speaker)
  • Senka Neuman-Stanivukovic (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentationAcademic

Description

Politics and Poetics of Feminist Strike in the Postsocialist/Postcolonial Encounter

The panel will be organized as a session within the seminar series of the research group, with onsite and online participation of group members and open to the public and potential new participants. It will start with a brief introduction of the group and a summary of its two earlier seminars on decoloniality and infrastructure. We then continue with a discussion on the topic of feminist strike, around which a workshop will be organized by members of the group in April 2022. The panel will outline the research focus and initial questions, followed by a presentation of three case studies, and will then open to discussion and input by other group members and the public. The main questions to be addressed are: What are the aims and benefits of bringing postsocialist and postcolonial feminisms into the same fold? What are the meanings and practices of ‘feminist strike’ in the contexts we study? How far can this notion stretch: does it apply to cases of uneventful activism or to feminist resistance in which questions of labour are not explicitly articulated?

Chair: Hanneke Stuit

Panelists: Senka Neuman-Stanivukovic, Judith Naeff, Kylie Thomas and Ksenia Robbe
Period08 Oct 2021
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Feminism
  • Strike
  • Massacre
  • Protest
  • Women's struggle
  • Post-colonial
  • Post-Socialist
  • Labour
  • Capitalism