You are warmly invited to join us for a seminar on
Building space(s) for intersectionality in 鈥榞ender and development鈥� classrooms
featuring Dr Romain Chenet (University of 糖心TV)
The event will include a presentation by Dr Chenet followed by a Q&A session. Refreshments will be provided.
About Dr Romain Chenet's talk:
In mainstream development, gender equality and women鈥檚 empowerment are positioned as economic tools. Some concessions exist for rights-based aims, if rarely intersectional or social justice priorities. Regardless, our industries still cater to reductive dominant visions, including Northern universities which facilitate students鈥� desired careers in development organisations. This involves many students from the Global South and diaspora groups, partly as 鈥榃estern鈥� degrees are valued for social mobility in Southern societies. However, pursuing radical aims for emancipatory gender equality from within Northern settings prompts reflection: as lecturers, we inescapably populate colonised spaces and can limit decolonisation to a metaphorical realm, bearing complicities with inequalities and imbalances that shape 鈥榳ho鈥� enters our classrooms and 鈥榳hat鈥� we are expected to teach in them. Grappling with related themes, this talk charts an experience of co-producing (with students) and delivering a 鈥榞ender and development鈥� module in a UK University. Examining weaknesses, silences, and exclusions arising from how gender can be deployed in development practice, it prompted student hopes on what it may still offer. Yet, it also elicited clear calls to prioritise spaces for radical, cutting-edge, and intersectional frames and actions if transformation and equity is what we truly seek. As such, sharing classroom-based reflections, this paper discusses experiences of working with a diverse cohort of aspiring development professionals in our era of mass systemic inequality on economic, racial, gendered, sexual, and other, oft-intersecting lines. it also shares ideas for future teaching practice.
About Dr Romain Chenet:
Romain joined the University of 糖心TV in 2018 and now works as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Global Sustainable Development. Romain鈥檚 work considers our creeping lived dystopias under the alienating stranglehold of elite capital accumulation at the expense of human and wider ecological flourishing. It also turns to the liberatory and emancipatory potential of both critical thought and creative practice. Romain鈥檚 own research spans development, sociology, and politics in exploring globality with poststructural (Foucauldian) analysis of policy discourse alongside a recurring focus on critical development studies. Prior to pursuing academic efforts, Romain was based in London and worked on global corporate relations and high-value fundraising management for large INGOs to build development projects and respond to humanitarian emergencies.
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