Feminist contributions to social movements studies and feminist and queer mobilizations as subjects of social movement research

Abstract

On Thursday, September 19, 2-3.15PM BST/3-4.15CEST join a discussion with Sonia E. Alvarez (UMass Amherst) & Zeynep Gülru Göker (Sabancı University) on feminist contributions to social movements studies and feminist and queer mobilizations as subjects of social movement research. Topics of discussion include the ways scholarship outside the US and Europe challenges our understanding and conceptualization of social movements, and the responses of feminist and queer social movements to antifeminist, anti-gender, and anti-democratic forces. Sonia E. Alvarez is the Leonard J. Horwitz Professor Emerita of Latin American Politics and Studies (UMass Amherst) and author of numerous books and articles on feminist mobilization and protest politics in Latin America. Recent publications include Quem São as Mulheres das Políticas para as Mulheres no Brazil? Vol. I, O Feminismo Estatal Participativo Brasileiro; Vol. II, Expressões Feministas nas Conferências Nacionais de Políticas para as Mulheres (2018); Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (2017); Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas (2014); and a two-part special issue of the journal Meridians on "Afro-descendant Feminisms in Latin America" (2016). Her current work focuses on feminist protest, activist assemblages, and the (mis)encounters of feminism and anti-racism in Brazil. With Colectiva Protesta she wrote “13 Theses on Feminism and Protest: A Manifesto”, forthcoming in the Signs: Journal of Women in Culture, and Society, 50th Anniversary Issue, “Big Feminism”. Zeynep Gülru Göker an associate professor of political science at Sabanci University and the Director of SU Gender (Sabanci University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence). Her research and teaching focus on gender and politics, deliberative and participatory democracy, gender equality politics and care ethics. Her recent publications include “Collective Resilience and Resistance in Hybrid Times: Gender Struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden”, Gender, Place & Culture (co-authored with S. Çağatay, O.S. Hünler and A. Polatdemir (2023), “The Quest for Gender Equality in Universities at the Crossroads of Anti-gender Pressures: The Case of Turkey”, Globalisation, Societies and Education, (with A. Polatdemir 2022) and “Women’s Dialogic Encounters: Agonistic Listening and Emotions in Multiple-identity Conflicts”, Third World Quarterly (with A. B. Çelik 2022). She is the PI at Sabanci University of EXPRESS2 (Specify and Protect the EU Social Contract, EU Horizon Europe, 2024-2027).