Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2022, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal

Gender Talk mit Margo Okazawa-Rey

Feminist Transnational Non-Aligned Movement: Politics of Possibility and Hope (in conversation with Faris Cuchi Gezahegn)

Sitzungssaal der Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien

Vortrag


In the current historic moment, people and the natural world are suffering from the scourges that have brought massive destruction and created chaos worldwide. The culture of killing rooted in neoliberal capitalism, militarism and armed conflict, religious fundamentalisms, patriarchy, and racism, ethnocentrism, and caste oppression, dictates the decisions made in social, economic, and political institutions and shapes life as we know it including the mishandling of the global COVID-19 syndemic. With a few exceptions, such as in parts of Latin America, Right-Wing elites, and their cronies, irrespective of categories such as nation, gender, and race, are leading the charge toward potential destruction of the planet not to mention human life. And the public is being compelled by political and religious leaders and others to take sides. For example, in the current Russia-Ukraine war, the abortion debates, rights of trans and gender non-conforming people, and many more. Are you on the side of Russia or Ukraine? Abortion—yes or no? Trans rights—yes or no?

In a similar political moment after the formation of the Soviet Union and the start of the so-called Cold War, newly independent countries and others in de-colonization processes (Third World) were politically pressured to choose either the “West” (First World) or the Soviet Union (Second World). At a historic gathering in 1955 in Bandung Indonesia, the Third World countries agreed to a set of unifying principles (political self-determination, mutual respect for sovereignty, non-aggression, non-interference in internal affairs, and equality) and chose to move in their own direction. This formation came to be known as the non-aligned movement.

Given the political and moral bankruptcy of existing states, political parties, ideological perspectives, and the limitations of our own thinking and understanding as progressives, how could a feminist transnational non-aligned movement help us think about this moment, agree to a set of guiding principles, and create possibilities for generating the kinds of changes needed to save the planet and ourselves?

The conversation with Professor Emerita Margo Okazawa-Rey will focus on the conceptualization and creation of a feminist transnational non-aligned movement.

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Veranstalter

Referat Genderforschung / in Kooperation mit der Vortragsreihe zu antirassistischen, BPoC und migrantischen Perspektiven im Feld der Kunst und Bildung


Kontakt

Boka En
Referat Genderforschung
+43-1-4277-18452
boka.en@univie.ac.at