The talk will address the challenges and dilemmas for feminist scholars to research, write and talk about gender-based violence in relation to the Middle East and its diasporas. My focus will be on Iraq - a country marked by war, conflict and violence but I will also refer to examples based on my research in Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon and the Kurdish movement. I plan to provide both empirical insights into the intersections of war and gender-based violence while also mapping the discursive, political and empirical challenges and complexities linked to scholarship and activism that is grounded in both feminist and anti-racist/anti-Islamophobic politics.
Biographie de l'intervenante
Nadje Al-Ali is Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown where she is Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and the Kurdish political movement. Her publications include What kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq (2009, University of California Press, co-authored with Nicola Pratt), Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present (2007, Zed Books), and Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East (2000, Cambridge University Press). She is on the advisory board of kohl: a journal of body and gender research and has been involved in several feminist organizations and campaigns transnationally.
Conférence enregistrée le 23 mai 2023.
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