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Theorizing Transnationality and Gender A workshop
jointly organized by the Institute for Women's
Studies and Gender Studies, University of Toronto
and the Institute for Women and Gender Studies,
American University in Cairo.
Date: December 11-12, 2004
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Description: There is a great excitement and
frustration over the
recent
proliferation of writings, conferences, and theorizing
relating to
transnational, transnationalism, and transnationality.
"Transnational"
is
invested with a variety of meanings and political
valences, from
descriptions about global capitalism to analyses of
specific global
flows
of labour and capital, from the naming of a politics
of alliance to the
representation of international connections in
localized organizations,
from the identification of individual subjectivities
(as in
transnational,
transmigrant, diasporic), to the mapping of forms of
neo-imperialism.
On
the one hand it denotes connections, linkages and
alliances and the
reworking of geographically disparate areas into a
single social field.
On
the other, and in contrast to the terms "global'" or
"post-colonial"'
it
signifies complex, unequal and uneven relationships at
the turn of the
century that some refer to as discrepant modernities.
Trannsnational
feminist theorizing refracts many of these
contradictions and
ambivalences
while illuminating variable constructions and
intersectionalities of
gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Questions we seek to
address in this
workshop are:
1) How is the transnational deployed in contempora ry
feminist and
gender
analyses/studies in different areas of the world, and
to what specific
conditions is this theorizing attached? (in North
Africa, North
America,
the Middle-East, Latin America, etc).
2) What are the epistemological and spatial
underpinnings of
transnational
feminist theorizing? How do these compare with, and
relate to, existing
areas studies paradigms? Is it possible to speak of a
common framework
that works transnationally?
3) What is at stake in the deployment of the term
transnational, as
opposed to global, international, postcolonial and
diasporic?
4) How does transnationalism work in relation to
displacement,
migration,
exile, citizenship, and nation-state sovereignty?
5) What can we make of the NGOization of civil society
and specifically
of
women's and feminist movements?
Interested participants are invited to submit an abstr
act by October
30,
2004
to Martina Rieker, Acting Director, IGWS at
<
http://by8fd.bay8.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=F000000001&a=b9efe623734026aa229b872d21ff8102&mailto=1&to=mrieker@aucegypt.edu&msg=MSG1098989134.11&start=1773329&len=6769&src=&type=x>mrieker@???.
A final
paper is due December 1, 2004.
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