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Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism (2023)
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Tudor, A. (2023). The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism. European Journal of Women's Studies, 30(2), 290-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/13505068231164217

Trans-exclusionary feminists are using the trope of ‘protecting women’ as their main weapon while accusing trans-inclusive feminisms of misogyny. It is a rhetorical figure that we can call ‘the weaponization of accusations of violence’. And we witnes... Read More about The Anti-Feminism of Anti-Trans Feminism.

The Balfour Conversations: British human rights activists and the call to reckon with implication (2022)
Journal Article
Elce, B. (2024). The Balfour Conversations: British human rights activists and the call to reckon with implication. Interventions, 26(2), 250-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2022.2158483

As the Great Power which initially authorized the Zionist settler-colonial project in historic Palestine, Britain has played a decisive role in the one hundred-year war against Palestinians. This essay analyses moments of encounter between Palestinia... Read More about The Balfour Conversations: British human rights activists and the call to reckon with implication.

Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and strategy in LGBTQ diversity and inclusion advocacy (2022)
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Aaberg, L. (2024). Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and strategy in LGBTQ diversity and inclusion advocacy. Gender, Place and Culture, 31(9), 1235-1252. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2022.2146660

It is increasingly common for advocates for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) workspace benefits and protections to argue for equitable treatment by utilizing the ‘business case’, or the argument that fostering a diverse and inclusiv... Read More about Corporate India after Section 377: haphazardness and strategy in LGBTQ diversity and inclusion advocacy.

Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement (2022)
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Suerbaum, M., & Lijnders, L. (2023). Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 191-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2125332

This introduction studies the experiences of racialized migrant women by focusing on three analytical dimensions: mothering, including care work and reproduction; legal precarity caused by the encounter with migration and border regimes; and gendered... Read More about Mothering practices in times of legal precarity: activism, care, and resistance in displacement.

Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness (2022)
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Chamas, S., & Allouche, S. (2022). Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness. Women's studies quarterly, 50(3/4), 230-249. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2022.0046

In this article, we engage in a discursive analysis and affective reading of written and recorded responses to the suicide of Sarah Hegazi, an Egyptian queer feminist communist who took her own life in exile in Canada in the summer of 2020. In the af... Read More about Mourning Sarah Hegazi: Grief and the Cultivation of Queer Arabness.

"We have to separate so we can be together again": Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes (2022)
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Lijnders, L. (2023). "We have to separate so we can be together again": Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 338-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2099748

This article explores how two asylum-seeking women from Eritrea attempt to secure safety and legal status for their children – born and unborn – and themselves by leaving them behind in the settler colonial state of Israel and taking on forged Ethiop... Read More about "We have to separate so we can be together again": Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes.

Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit (2022)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2023). Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 26(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221101642

This article offers an analysis of scholarly attempts to make sense of the nexus of race and migration in Brexit-era UK discourse. To illustrate my arguments that intend to challenge and extend existing scholarship, I discuss exemplary snapshots from... Read More about Ascriptions of Migration: Racism, Migratism and Brexit.

States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2022). States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises. Feminist Formations, 34(1), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0013

Drawing on personal teaching experience, this article considers the potentiality and pains of a pedagogic strategy that practises what José Esteban Muñoz calls a "methodology of hope" (2009). How can educators, particularly those located in the "enli... Read More about States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises.

Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon (2021)
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Chamas, S. (2023). Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon. Sexualities, 26(1/2), 230-251. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634607211047523

There exists a robust literature on the impact of the sexualisation of the war on terror as an imperial endeavour on both queer and non-queer subjects in the Middle East. This article explores the consequences for LGBT activism of the localisation of... Read More about Lil Watan: Queer Patriotism in Chauvinistic Lebanon.

Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund (2021)
Journal Article
Okech, A., Essof, S., & Carlsen, L. (2022). Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund. Economia Politica, 39(1), 249-269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-021-00241-9

This article draws on the work of Just Associates (JASS), a feminist movement support organisation that strengthens the leadership and organising capacity of community-based women networks in Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Mesoamerica, to trans... Read More about Movement Building Responses to COVID-19: Lessons from the JASS Mobilisation Fund.

In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2021). In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests. Feminist Review, 128(1), 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789211013777

The trope of the repressive Muslim, obstinately attached to their regressive world views, recalcitrant antagoniser of modernity, has become a thoroughly familiar drama. Redundant spectacles abound: events often highly mediatised, substantiated by con... Read More about In Defence of an Unalienated Politic: A Critical Appraisal of the Birmingham LGBT Lessons Protests.

Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut (2021)
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Chamas, S. (2021). Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut. Partecipazione e conflitto, 14(2), 530-546. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v14i2p530

This article concerns itself with why and how activists persevere and manage to reproduce themselves as activists in contexts where they experience what is described as routine "failure", taking Lebanon's activist scene as its focus. Drawing on ethno... Read More about Activism as a Way of Life: The Social World of Social Movements in Middle-Class Beirut.

Hygiene, Morality and the Pre-criminal: Genealogies of Suspicion from Twentieth Century British-Occupied Egypt (2021)
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Finden, A. (2021). Hygiene, Morality and the Pre-criminal: Genealogies of Suspicion from Twentieth Century British-Occupied Egypt. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47(1), 27-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1923189

The concept of the ‘pre-criminal space’ has seen increasing uncritical use in countering terrorism policy since 9/11. It is understood by critical scholars primarily as a new legal temporality that brings forward the ‘threshold of criminal responsibi... Read More about Hygiene, Morality and the Pre-criminal: Genealogies of Suspicion from Twentieth Century British-Occupied Egypt.

Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa (2021)
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Okech, A. (2021). Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46(4), 1013-1033. https://doi.org/10.1086/713299

What happens when misogyny leads to increasing murders of women, whose lives are considered not worthy because their respectability is under attack? What do feminists do in a global moment when antifeminist backlash emerges with fervor in politics, p... Read More about Feminist Digital Counterpublics: Challenging Femicide in Kenya and South Africa.