Where do we stand? Speaking Global South in U.S. academia

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This roundtable invites conversation on how to move away from statist transnational feminist frameworks that fail to expose the nation state itself as a violent and neo-colonial formation. Our focus is on finding ways to break out of Euro-Americentric feminist scholarship that renders invisible women’s radical insurgency emerging out of Global South. We will be talking about the conflation of transnational feminism with women of color feminism in US academia and how the European humanitarian frameworks of migration perpetuate the colonial geographical hierarchies that construct the West as the safe haven for those fleeing the chaos in the uncivilized Global South.

Sub Unit

• General Conference

Moderator

• Christine (Cricket) Keating, University of Washington

Presenters

• mediha pinar sorma, university of washington

• Akanksha Misra, Gender and Women's Studies, SUNY Plattsburgh

• Jainey JungYeon Kim, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; University of Washington

• Christina Yuen Zi Chung, Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies; University of Washington