Gender, Everyday Survival, and Care under hyper-imperial governance

Abstract

The panel begins by Rawan Natsheh questioning how the language of environmental politics becomes enmeshed with Israeli settler colonial politics in the West Bank). This paper argues that the climate crisis is not purely linked to the global crises of climate change witnessed around the world, but is also a political design outcome in which contestation over land and resources intensifies the care burdens of Palestinian communities. Akshra Mehla explores the challenges to postcolonial legal pluralism in India, situating women’s agency in their engagement with non-state legal bodies such as Khap Panchayats, and highlighting how women navigate and challenge colonial legal impositions . Similarly, in the context of Kashmir, Divyangna Sharma examines how the double coercive subjection produced by postcolonial militarization and social patriarchy complicates women’s everyday lives, while women’s agency points to the hyper-imperial constraints of governance. Additionally, Vânia Carvalho Pinto explores the emotional and care work of Gulf women, elucidating the operations of social patriarchy and the emotional labor involved in negotiating agency within a patriarchal order. Aarma dixit's work explores a rethinking of women's militant roles and how they subvert roles and how they must be understood from a lense of feminist renegotiation of roles and power.

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