Locating Feminist Power: Movements, Knowledge, and Organisational Politics

Abstract

This panel focuses on feminist power in movements, knowledge and organisational politics. The first paper examines how women’s organizations within parties in three European countries have shifted their focus from increasing women’s numerical presence to advancing gendered policy priorities and their substantive representation strategies. The second paper studies French and Danish feminist activism in working-class neighbourhoods, and how do the protest practices in the quartiers populaires reconfigure the centre-margin divide. The third paper explores the gendered, classed and racialized impacts of urban necropolitics on Black women in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, centering on spatial practices of resistance, knowledge production and memorial space-making of Black mothers’ movements. The fourth paper examines NGOisation of the contemporary Indian women’s movement with two case study NGPs in New Delhi and analyses the the pull factors which encouraged autonomous groups to institutionalise as NGOs and the consequences of NGO-isation. The fifth paper explores the experiences and perceptions of women working in cybersecurity and the role that so far women’s networks play, highlighting the complexity and ambivalences of the attempts to make the field more inclusive and gender just.

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Navigating Gendered Cybersecurity Culture Through Women’s Networks	View Paper Details
The role of women’s organizations: from lobbying for descriptive to substantive representation?	View Paper Details
"This NGO is Now a Company": NGO-isation of the Contemporary Indian Women's Movement	View Paper Details