Dienstag, 14. Mai 2024, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal
Alisha Saikia
Neo-Animism and Ecofeminism: An Essential Confluence to Deconstruct Patriarchal Structures
HS 41 (Gerda Lerner Hörsaal)
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
Abstract: Neo-animism refers to establishment and interconnectedness of the human-environment relationship by placing humans in a non-hierarchical space and not regarding them as the definitive form of person and relations in this multi species world. Ecofeminism draws heavily from neo-animism and shares a common epistemological approach. Both are essentially concerned about the vital significance of knowing others. Objectification of nature and women that are certain fundamental aspects of patriarchy can be dismantled by the ethics of care that recognizes the presence, existence and importance of non-human persons, nature and women who have been subordinated, systematically devalued and disempowered. The confluence of neo-animism and ecofeminism provides a critical lens of rethinking socio-cultural, political and environmental issues that will eventually lead to its transformation.
In this lecture some ecofeminist movements from India will be discussed as an example.
Alisha Saikia is a Doctoral Assistant (2022–2025) in Religious Studies, funded through a scholarship of the Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion (VDTR). She holds a B.A. in Sociology (2010), an M.A. in East Asian Studies (2012), and an M.Phil. in Japanese Studies (2014), all from the University of Delhi, India. She also holds an M.A. in Religious Studies (2018) from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, where she was a Monbukagakushō Fellow. Her research in Japan focused on Japanese religion and popular culture (Kyara in Japanese Religious Spaces) where she looked at the embeddedness of kyara or mascots in certain religious spaces in Japan and the impact on the practice of religion in those spaces. Her current research project is on studying dolls from a Religious Studies perspective where she explores the field of doll collecting and doll making from the lenses of neo-animism, healing and subjective myth.
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Referat Genderforschung der Universität Wien
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Erstellt am Freitag, 08. Mrz 2024, 10:27
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 11. Mrz 2024, 10:39