International Feminist Journal of Politics and FLACSO-Ecuador
In-person conference / Keynote sessions will be livestreamed
Quito, Ecuador, September 7-8, 2023
We invite participants to this in-person conference, Constructing Transnational Feminist Resistances in Times of ‘Crises,’ co-convened by International Feminist Journal of Politics and the Sociology and Gender Studies Department at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO-Ecuador).
Feminisms – like other forms of knowledge production and social movements – emerge and are situated in nationalist, colonialist, and imperialist contexts, even as they resist epistemic and geopolitical hegemonies. In this conference, we continue with IFJP’s efforts to decolonize Northern and Anglophone hegemonies in feminist IR. Convened in Quito, Ecuador, the 2023 conference centers “Latin America” as a region and imaginary that offers an important anchoring for global feminist conversations to move beyond the current hold on knowledge of the Global North and West. In particular, this conference centers seeks to showcase Latin America – and more broadly, the Americas – as an historical, colonialist imaginary and as a site of ongoing resistances to neocolonial, imperialist hegemonies, globally and within the region itself. In proposing that our epistemic point of departure begin in the Global South, this conference serves as a space to think through the simultaneous local and transnational dimensions of feminist politics that respond to various forms of global power, coloniality, and empire.
Some of the questions animating this conference include: How have feminists and other political actors in the region and elsewhere framed their struggles for sovereignty and freedom? What kind of connections, encounters, and dissents can we establish between feminists struggles and other forms of social protests, social movements, and spontaneous mobilizations that have emerged across the globe? How and why have we witnessed a recent re-emergence of not only more organized social movements but also various forms of conmociones, or spontaneous mobilizations, across the globe that illustrate widespread discontent across social sectors about a host of issues including: authoritarian practices, extractivist state development, racism and anti-indigenous sentiments, abortion rights, anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQI+ campaigns, and gender-based violence? How have ideas about, for example, gender and women’s rights, “travelled” (or not) across political, economic, cultural, and linguistic borders, including through South-South networks? What are the knots and/or enclosures that happen through or despite transnationalism and border-crossing, and how do we better attend to liminality that can be so generative for dislodging barriers to political imagination and solidarity?
In centering resistances – including organized protests, spontaneous interventions, and some of the intellectual work to decolonize knowledge production and educational systems in the region – this conference aims to focus on a range of creative feminist responses and ways of rethinking Latin America as a region and imaginary and center these conversations within global feminist politics.
Possible subthemes include but are not limited to the following:
Transnational Feminist Theories and Practices
methods and theories that work with transnational feminist analytics
transnational feminisms and intersectionality: convergences, divergences
empires, old and new
South-South relations and internationalisms
uninationalisms, plurinationalisms, transnationalisms
Feminist Politics, Praxis, and Policy
resistances to new forms of authoritarianisms
scales and assemblages of resistance: local, national, regional
the body, embodiment, and violences
resistances to heteropatriarchies, coloniality, xenophobia, racism and racialization
feminist policy frameworks in transnational/global perspective
(trans)feminist perspectives on borders, migration, displacement, (im)mobilities
Social Inequalities and Intersectionality
intersectional social movements, policies, institutions, practices
multicultural neoliberalism and/or neoliberal multiculturalism
queer/cuir/transfeminisms, epistemes, movements
racialization, racial hierarchies, indigeneity, whiteness
resistance to exploitation, global value chains, extractivism
Submission date: May 22, 2023
Submission type: Individual and co-authored papers, panels, roundtables, book launch proposals, and other creative proposals.
Submission Method: Submit your 250-word abstracts by filling out the form here.
Please note: For panel or other multi-person submissions, you will need information of all your panelists/contributors including individual contribution/paper abstracts, email addresses, location/institution information, and mode of participation