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Reading Marx in Beirut: Disorganised Study and the Politics of Queer Utopia (2020)
Journal Article
Chamas, S. (2020). Reading Marx in Beirut: Disorganised Study and the Politics of Queer Utopia. Middle East - Topics & arguments, 14, 143-159. https://doi.org/10.17192/meta.2020.14.8021

This article draws on ethnographic research carried out with Marxist reading groups run by a Lebanese revolutionary socialist organization. I examine the labor that Marxist theoretical practice was doing in a political conjuncture widely viewed as po... Read More about Reading Marx in Beirut: Disorganised Study and the Politics of Queer Utopia.

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought (2020)
Book
Bhandar, B., & Ziadah, R. (Eds.). (2020). Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought. Verso

In a moment of rising authoritarianism, climate crisis, and ever more exploitative forms of neoliberal capitalism, there is a compelling and urgent need for radical paradigms of thought and action. Through interviews with key revolutionary scholars,... Read More about Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought.

Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia (2020)
Digital Artefact
Tudor, A. Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia

In the end, while people put their lives on the line in the streets, protesting institutional and state racism, especially anti-Black racism, Rowling, a white super-rich woman, a self-proclaimed feminist, a wannabe lesbian-protector and women’s defen... Read More about Terfism is White Distraction: On BLM, Decolonising the Curriculum, Anti-Gender Attacks and Feminist Transphobia.

Migration (2020)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2020). Migration. Lambda nordica, 25(1), 92-97. https://doi.org/10.34041/ln.v25.619

“MIGRATION” IS A key topic for queer studies not only because of migratised queers being both producers of queer knowledge and the objects of queer migration research but also because of migration’s prominent position in right-wing, fascist and popul... Read More about Migration.

Return migration, online entrepreneurship and gender performance in the Chinese ‘Taobao families’ (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, C. W. (2020). Return migration, online entrepreneurship and gender performance in the Chinese ‘Taobao families’. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 61(3), 478-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12280

This paper centres on analysing how return migrants' participation in online businesses impacts marital power dynamics in rural families alongside the rise of e-commerce in rural China. During 2016 and 2017, I conducted an ethnographic study in a Chi... Read More about Return migration, online entrepreneurship and gender performance in the Chinese ‘Taobao families’.

Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, June). Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere). Paper presented at Thinking Like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large, RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Thinking along with tumbleweeds, this paper proposes an ontoepistemic perspective on spillages and mattering in human and non-human worldings that challenges recent resurgences, in anthropological and other social theory, of a dialectical divide betw... Read More about Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere).

Confronting ‘The Household’ (2020)
Digital Artefact
Grewal, K., Hemmings, C., Sabsay, L., & Tudor, A. Confronting ‘The Household’. The Feminist Review Blog

Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Heathcote, G. (2020, March). Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human. Paper presented at 61st Annual ISA Convention (Panel: Feminism and Materialism in Internaonal Relations), Honolulu, Hawaii

How might water matter in accounts of human and non-human relations? Drawing in material from the ontological turn in anthropology, including complex encounters with the ocean, glaciers and rivers, alongside indigenous and legal non-human subjectivit... Read More about Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human.

Worldings that Spill and that Matter (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, March). Worldings that Spill and that Matter. Paper presented at Feminism and Materialism in International Relations, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI, USA

Against the rise of a whole host of new takes on the primacy of the ontological in solving ostensibly epistemological questions—evidenced, for example, in certain expositions of the ontological turn in social anthropology, the speculative turn in ‘co... Read More about Worldings that Spill and that Matter.

"This Lady, She’s A-List!": The Empowerment Impact of Womxn Political Elites for Womxn in South African Higher Education (2020)
Journal Article
Michalko, J. (2021). "This Lady, She’s A-List!": The Empowerment Impact of Womxn Political Elites for Womxn in South African Higher Education. Social Politics, 28(4), 1095-1114. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa001

This article analyzes the norms that are expected of womxn political elites as role models, to further advance the research on the contributions of womxn in politics to womxn’s empowerment. Based on interviews and group discussions with womxn at the... Read More about "This Lady, She’s A-List!": The Empowerment Impact of Womxn Political Elites for Womxn in South African Higher Education.

Μια σύντομη γενεαλογική ανάλυση της έννοιας του «κοινωνικού φύλου» στην δυτική φεμινιστική θεωρία: Η πορεία προς την διχοτόμηση του ανθρώπου σε κοινωνικό και βιολογικό, τα αναπάντητα μεταφυσικά ερωτήματα κι οι αποικιοκρατικές τάσεις διεθνώς (2020)
Digital Artefact
Istratii, R. Μια σύντομη γενεαλογική ανάλυση της έννοιας του «κοινωνικού φύλου» στην δυτική φεμινιστική θεωρία: Η πορεία προς την διχοτόμηση του ανθρώπου σε κοινωνικό και βιολογικό, τα αναπάντητα μεταφυσικά ερωτήματα κι οι αποικιοκρατικές τάσεις διεθνώς

Σε αυτήν την νέα σειρά πάνω στο Φύλο και την Ορθοδοξία, η Dr Istratii θα παρουσιάσει την εξέλιξη της δυτικής φεμινιστικής θεωρίας, τους κινδύνους που ελλοχεύουν όταν δυτικές θεωρίες επεκτείνονται σε άλλες κοινωνίες χωρίς να δίδεται σημασία στις ιστορ... Read More about Μια σύντομη γενεαλογική ανάλυση της έννοιας του «κοινωνικού φύλου» στην δυτική φεμινιστική θεωρία: Η πορεία προς την διχοτόμηση του ανθρώπου σε κοινωνικό και βιολογικό, τα αναπάντητα μεταφυσικά ερωτήματα κι οι αποικιοκρατικές τάσεις διεθνώς.

Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire (2019)
Journal Article
Chamas, S. (2019). Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 12(13), 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01203001

In this article, I examine the potential and shortcomings of political satire as a counter-discursive tool in Lebanon. I take the popular shows BBCHI and CHINN as objects of study, and discuss the ways in which these programs challenged narratives of... Read More about Laughing Sectarianism Away: The Possibilities and Limitations of Lebanese Satire.

A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan. In J. Halley, P. Kotiswaran, R. Rebouché, & H. Shamir (Eds.), Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (407-433). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvdjrpfs.19

There has been for a while a steady flow of critical studies of the women’s movement in Pakistan—that discursive and social formation of and about women that has been memorably described by Farida Shaheed, one of its foremost representatives, as a “m... Read More about A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan.

Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society (2019)
Journal Article
Istratii, R. (2019). Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, XI(1), 25-52

This article draws on an ethnographic study of the realities of conjugal abuse and attitudes towards it in a religious society in Ethiopia. The study was prompted by tendencies in gender and development scholarship to transpose feminist aetiologies o... Read More about Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society.

Norms and Discourses of Class: Disciplining Young Educated Womxn’s Political Engagements in South Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Michalko, J. Norms and Discourses of Class: Disciplining Young Educated Womxn’s Political Engagements in South Africa. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 47(3), 269-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2019.1691366

Class-based analysis has become one of the key academic approaches to examining political behaviour in South Africa. As its usefulness in the context of high inequality is contested, this article seeks to contribute to the debates on its analytical p... Read More about Norms and Discourses of Class: Disciplining Young Educated Womxn’s Political Engagements in South Africa.

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees (2019)
Journal Article
Lokot, M. (2019). The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees. Gender & Development, 27(3), 467-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2019.1664046

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refug... Read More about The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees.