On the Legitimacy of Protest: Kashmir, Palestine, Black Lives Matter

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

In this roundtable, the editors and some contributors to a recent special issue of WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly on “Protest” will consider histories of protest against state violence in Kashmir, Palestine, and the United States. We will consider the gendered fiction of the “legitimate protester,” as perceived from within and outside movements against illegal occupation in Kashmir and Palestine, and against police violence in the Black Lives Matter movement. Who is seen as a protester, and who holds legitimacy—in the social as well as legal sense—as a protester?

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME 02: Politics of the State

Moderator

• Deepti Misri, University of Colorado, Boulder

Presenters

• Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University

• Charlene Carruthers, Chicago Center for Leadership and Transformation

• Elena L. Cohen, City University of New York, Graduate Center

• Hafsa Kanjwal, Lafayette College