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Focal point 7 |
Living Globality |
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Plenum 7.1 |
Panel-discussion: "Transnational Feminism. Politics of Location and Beyond?" |
Samstag, 10.09.2005, 9.30-11.15 am
Center for transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
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Facilitator: Gabriele Dietze, Antje Hornscheidt, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany
Feminism is not a national matter. Situations, interests and localities of women vary extremely different in different geographical, political and cultural contexts, and within Euro/American multicultural societies as well. Nevertheless, white occidental positions are still generally perceived as unmarked norm for international feminist politics and continually reinstated as such.
The panel is meant to question traditional Western feminist concepts by bringing together scholars from different theoretical backgrounds: Critical Whiteness Studies (Vron Ware), Feminist Postcolonial and Migration Theory (Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez) and transnational feminism (Inderpal Grewal). The panel will investigate the (im)possibilities of a globalized feminist perspective for political agency deriving from the aforementioned different positions. The goal is to discuss productive, yet critical positions towards the congresse’s leading concept ‘femme global’ and to look for the possibilities of temporal and point by point alliances of various national and transnational women’s movements.
The self-reflexive stance taken towards Western feminism as well as towards the potentialities of a globalized international Feminism are taken up again in the following workshop with respect to the European/American context (first part) and the German context (second part).
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Antje Hornscheidt, E-Mail antje.hornscheidt@rz.hu-berlin.de, Gabriele Dietze, E-Mail gabriele.dietze@rz.hu-berlin.de, Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin http://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/
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