19–20/07
The Crisis of Social Reproduction in the Global South: Anti-Gender Politics, (Re)production of Life and Resistances
This workshop, supported by IRGAC and Kassel University Political Theory Department, will examine manifestations of the neoliberal crisis of social reproduction (CSR) and their links to authoritarianism in the Global South. The presentations will delve into anti-gender politics, responses of the state and business actors to govern and profit from the CSR, and the resistances and social struggles that affirm the agenda of reclaiming life.
This workshop, supported by IRGAC and Kassel University Political Theory Department, will examine manifestations of the neoliberal crisis of social reproduction (CSR) and their links to authoritarianism in the Global South. The presentations will delve into anti-gender politics, responses of the state and business actors to govern and profit from the CSR, and the resistances and social struggles that affirm the agenda of reclaiming life.
19 JULY 2024
- Welcome and Opening Remarks (10:00 - 10:30 Raum 0210)
Melehat Kutun & Sara Cufré - (Representing the workshop convenors) - IRGAC
Carolina Vestena - Political Theory Department Kassel University
Börries Nehe - IRGAC - RLS
- Session 1: Reproduction of Life I: Reproductivity, Familialism, and State (10:30 - 12:00, Raum 0210)
Chair: Paula Varela - CEIL-CONICET - Buenos Aires University
First Raw Materials, Now Babies: The Outsourcing of Fertility and Pregnancy to the Global South
Irina Herb Friedrich Schiller - University Jena
The Gendered Dimension of the State: Renaturalizing the Social Reproduction
Melehat Kutun - Kassel University
- Session 2: Anti-Gender Politics: Circulations and Digital Platforms (13:30 - 16:00 Raum 0207)
Chair: Hülya Kendir - Kassel University
Gendered Labour as Commodity: YouTube and the (Re)Production of an Average Middle-class Indian Women’s Life
Sagorika Singha - Goethe University
Anchoring Patriarchy on Social Media: Crisis of Social Reproduction and Online Self-Help Cultures in Turkey
Ülker Sözen - Passau University & Leipzig University
Agents of the Neoliberal State: Heteronormative Masculinities, Nationalist Violence, & Conspiracy Theories
Erol Sağlam - Istanbul Medeniyet University
- Keynote Lecture (16:30 - 18:00 Raum 0207)
Chair: Mechthild Bereswill - Kassel University
Our Right to Set the Conditions of Our Social Reproduction
Paula Varela - Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL-CONICET) and Buenos Aires University
20 JULY 2024
- Session 3: Reproduction of Life II: Community, Territory and War (10:00 - 12:30 Raum 0207)
Chair: Pinar Tuzcu - Queens University
Combating the Anti-Social in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Towards a Transformative Politics of Protests Against Feminicide
Damir Arsenijević & Jasmina Husanovic - University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Racialized & Gendered Unseen Workers: Displaced Kurdish Women in Pink-Collar in Germany
Esra Karadas Ekinci - Göttingen University
Social Authoritarianism and Grassroots Counter-Strategies in the Everyday of a Brazilian Favela: The Case of Heliópolis Community Radio
Hugo Fanton - University of São Paulo
- Session 4: Resistance and Feminist Counter-Strategies (14:00 - 16:30 Raum 0207)
Chair: Carolina Vestana - Kassel University
Feminist Revolutionary Momentum in Iran: (Trans)Forming Spaces of Solidarity and Care
Firoozeh Farvardin - Humboldt University of Berlin
Unionising the Green Tide. Feminism and Labour Movement in the Struggle For Abortion In Argentina
Sara Cufré - CEIL-CONICET
Feminist Strategies Amidst a Changing Political Landscape: Reproductive Autonomy, the Pro-Abortion Green Scarf, and the Emergence of the New Right in Argentina
Verónica Orsi - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Closing Remarks (17:00 - 18:00 Raum 0207)
Chair: Firoozeh Farvadin and Ülker Sözen
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