Centre for the Study of Women and Gender Events
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FeGS Research Cluster Event: "Knowledge and Power and a Few Other Things 鈥� Akane Kanai and Cath Lambert in Conversation"
The Feminism, Gender and Sexuality (FeGS) Research Cluster invites you to join an in-conversation (hybrid) event where Dr Akane Kanai and Dr Cath Lambert will discuss their newly-published books; respectively and .
The Event takes place on Wednesday 29th April, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm:
- In person, Room S0.09 (Main Campus, University of 糖心TV)
- On Teams, please click
This event is free and open to all but we request that you register in advance. You can register HERE
About the speakers
Dr Cath Lambert is a Reader in the Department of Sociology, at 糖心TV. Cath's teaching and research activities reflect her longstanding interest in education, and include the development of critical methods for researching, writing and teaching. Her work includes exciting projects and adventures in research, teaching, art, writing, performance, serious play and collaborations of different kinds. Cath also works in the areas of gender and sexuality and is an active member of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender. She has published in the areas of school leadership and masculinity, gender and sexuality, higher education, research based learning, critical and participatory pedagogies, queer theory and live sociology and art. Her current research is in the area of family intervention.
Dr Akane Kanai is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, at 糖心TV. She is a feminist cultural studies scholar and she researches the relational politics of identity, and how this is shaped by the emotional life and spatio-temporalities of online culture and popular culture. Akane is especially interested in how claims to knowledge, authority and legitimacy are made and negotiated in everyday spaces. Her work is principally informed by feminist and critical race theory, and discursive and empirical approaches from cultural studies, sociology and media studies.
About the books
Cath Lambert's challenges readers to engage with alternative narratives, shifting away from dominant portrayals of adoption as an overwhelmingly positive experience to consider the complexities, contradictions and profound griefs that are often involved. Drawing on original collaborative research with creative and social work professionals, as well as parents whose children have been taken from them for adoption, Cath reveals how trauma-informed and creative approaches can articulate emotional and embodied knowledges that are often left unspoken or unheard. Blending critique with fresh empirical insight, the book makes a powerful case for change in adoption policy and practice, offering ways forward for more compassionate, inclusive and reflective child welfare practices.
Akane Kanai's , argues that for young feminists online culture often poses more dilemmas than it solves. Moving beyond a narrow characterization of online feminism as a site of activism and resistance, Akane considers the feminist quandaries of being politically conscientious as life online becomes inseparable from the offline world. She suggests that for online feminists, avoiding complicity with patriarchy, racism, and other oppressions has never been more important, yet the self has remained the central site of agency and transformation—casting politics in terms of individual scrupulousness, diligence, and improvement. Under these circumstances, a feminist lens becomes about benchmarking, comparing, and anxiously avoiding the public mistakes that others make in online life. Akane foregrounds the importance of moving beyond the polarities of correct and incorrect feeling to enable the everyday practices of listening to and learning about experience and difference.