Gender, Intervention and Hyperimperial Governance

Abstract

This panel collectively explores how gender becomes a site through which global politics is translated into everyday governance. Debangana Chatterjee examines the nature of women’s agency not merely as a tracking of voice or silence, but as situated between state and statelessness. She further locates women’s agency within the global politics of negotiation, focusing on Doha diplomacy surrounding the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Boutaina El Ouadie studies how accountability frameworks designed by donors attempt to recraft cultures of interaction between stakeholders such as social workers, legal professionals, and domestic abuse survivors. Through this analysis, she problematizes humanitarian interventionism and its obtuse role in redefining the professionalization of feminism. Peret Goar offers a theoretical analysis of the pervasive influence of hyperimperialism through which transnational governance, donor regimes, and interventionist norm-setting operate. The paper demonstrates how epistemic assumptions normalize colonial logics and hierarchical international systems designed to produce subservience, and proposes a decolonial rethinking of gender theory. Similarly, Angelica Antonechen Colombo shows how the ideological framing of an anti-gender agenda operates through “concerns” backed by social, political and economic conditions that shape and restructure social relations for capitalist and patriarchal maximization.Bernardo Carvalho de Mello’s work diagnoses depoliticization of intersectionality as epistemic hyperimperial violence. The paper wonderfully re-engineering intersectionality to restore its normative and political intent to reveal hyperimperialism of international human rights institutions. Solange Swiri Tumasang’ work presents a case of decolonial repositioning of gender as not regulation or metrics but as a substantial democrative alternative. Gender can reconfigure power and legitimacy especially, if conceptualized as an alternative in the African context.

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