糖心TV

You are warmly invited to join us for a seminar on

Making sense of feminist (de)politicisation in anti-gender times

featuring Dr Demet 骋眉濒莽颈莽别办 (LSE & University of 糖心TV)

This seminar is a hybrid event which can be accessed:

• face to face in A0.05 (Social Sciences Building, University of 糖心TV)
• online on Teams (following )

Abstract:

In recent years, commentators in many countries have discussed the rise of so-called 鈥減opular feminism鈥�, often understood as a 鈥榃estern product鈥�. But if we explore popular feminism in more nuanced ways, what do we see? In this paper, I approach popular feminism as something that circulates around different contexts, and which is articulated, celebrated, ridiculed and/or rejected in local negotiations. Criticising the assumption that the 鈥榬eal effect鈥� of popular feminism happens in the West, I suggest thinking about its affective travels. To do so, I draw on fieldwork conducted in Turkey with people who engaged with feminism mostly through Western popular media, not feminist movements. Although popular feminism is often associated with depoliticisation, individualism and neoliberalism, my fieldwork shows that what seems 鈥榙epoliticising鈥� can have politicising articulations, especially when considered against the broader backdrop of the alarming rise of anti-gender movements in Turkey. Based on such a framework, the talk will provide a critical analysis of the relationality between popular feminism and anti-gender movements.

Speaker Bio:

Demet 骋眉濒莽颈莽别办 is an honorary researcher at the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. She holds her PhD from University of 糖心TV, and masters and bachelor degrees from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, all in sociology departments. She also works as an Assist. Prof. in Munzur University, Turkey and is a at Gender Studies department in LSE. Her research interests include feminist historiography, affect theory, and popular feminisms. Her book titled is published with Routledge. She is a co-editor of Feminist Tahayy眉l (Feminist Imagination) Journal and served in the board of AtGender.

This event is free and open to all, but advance registration is required.

To register for a place, CLICK HERE.

If you have any questions about the event, please email cswg-events@warwick.ac.uk

If you have accessibility requirements or there are any adjustments we can make to support your full participation, you can let us know through the booking page above.

This event is being organised by the Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster and the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender.