Feminism, power, and geopolitics

In this seminar we will review key feminist conceptual, methodological, and ethical commitments to understand, question and rework pressing geopolitical issues. Starting from the attention to the embodied nature of power and inequalities, we will address how feminist perspectives are applied to key geopolitical topics, from the making of territories and borders to questions of nationalism and discrimination. Furthermore, as a form of scholarship grounded in social justice, we will engage creatively with envisaging networks and infrastructures of care and solidarity that reformulate and/or contest racist, imperialist, and gendered narratives.

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How are families, households, bodies, and subjectivities involved in political processes? What is the role of difference, such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class, in contemporary struggles over power and space? What can feminist scholarship tell us about nationalism, social exclusion, imperialism, and warfare?

In this seminar we will review key feminist conceptual, methodological, and ethical commitments to understand, question and rework pressing geopolitical issues. At the core of the feminist perspectives are voices, narratives, and knowledges that are erased, or rendered marginal, in understanding political processes and geographies. Starting from the attention to the embodied nature of power and inequalities, we will further address how feminist perspectives are applied to key geopolitical topics, from the making of territories and borders to questions of nationalism and discrimination. Furthermore, as a form of scholarship grounded in social justice, we will engage creatively with envisaging networks and infrastructures of care and solidarity that reformulate and/or contest racist, imperialist, and gendered narratives.