From: Rutvica Andrijasevic: [log in to unmask]
Please find enclosed information about a call for workshop organized by
NextGENDERation
at the European Social Forum (http://www.fse-esf.org/).
NextGENDERation is a network of (young) feminist activist and scholars in
Europe who would like, in the occasion of ESF, to discuss the 'missing
linkes' between feminism and global movement. We would like to draw your
attention to this workshop in particular becasue feminist initiatives are
few and not much visible at the ESF.
The ESF is the first continental european meeting, following the World
Social Forum in Porto Alegre. It is an an open meeting space designed for
in-depth reflection, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals,
free exchange of experiences and planning of effective action among entities
and movements of civil society that are engaged in building a planetary
society centered on the human being.
We hope you to see you all at the ESF in Florence, Italy (from 6th to 10th
Nov) and especially at our workshop. For any updates please clic out web
page
http://nextgenderation.let.uu.nl/esf/index.html
For registration clic the web page of ESF directly.
In love and struggle,
Rutvica Andrijasevic
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http://nextgenderation.let.uu.nl
The NextGENDERation Network
at the European Social Forum,
(http://www.fse-esf.org/)
Firenze, 6-10 November 2002
calls for your participation in a workshop:
Missing Links: feminism and globalised resistance
The NextGENDERation network is a European network of (about 150) students in
the field of women's studies and feminist theory (both in academic contexts
and outside of the academia). We are very concerned with the production of
critical knowlede that enables the transformation of the world we live in.
In our workshop, we want to discuss following concerns:
1. The neoliberalisation of (higher) education in Europe. Commercial
and labour market interests are increasingly putting pressure on and shaping
our institutions of (higher) education. We believe that knowledge - its
production and transmission - should be socially relevant and able to
transform the world we live in. How can we make our institutions of (higher)
education into centers of critical thinking and resistance? How can the
critical knowledge generated by the social movements transform our
institutions of (higher) education?
2. We recognise that the production and transmission of critical
knowledge is happening in different locations, in different ways and in
different speeds. Within the spaces of Women's Studies and of the feminist
movements in Europe, we notice a reluctance or a delay in taking on insights
and analyses that come out of other social movements, such as migrant and
refugee movements, or the movement of globalised resistance against
neoliberal capitalism. We desire feminist theories and practices that are
more infused with the critical knowledge generated by transnational struggle
(of for instance the World Women's March). How can we work towards a
re-politicisation of the feminist movements and women's studies in Europe,
in solidarity with feminists and women activists around the world?
3. Within the movement of globalised resistance, we notice a real lack
of feminist perspectives and analyses. Orthodox anti-capitalism is NOT going
to do away with sexist and racist power relations - we know that from our
long histories of struggle. Our starting point is that power relations are
interwoven: sexual difference intersects with ethnicity, with class, with
sexuality, with geo-political location, with age, with ability, etc. This
knowledge has been generated (in different ways) within various feminist,
migrant, post-colonial movements and needs to be taken seriously in the
current globalised resistance or the "movement of movements" in order not to
reproduce existing inequalities, in order for an other world to be truly
possible. How can we infuse the current globalised resistance with feminist,
anti-racist and post-colonial politics?
In the workshop, these areas of concern will be shortly introduced by
scholars/activists working on these issues, and then discussed in smaller
groups. The aim of the workshop is to make some "missing links" between
different sites of (potential) resistance visible, and to create new
alliances enabling us to make such crucial links in our future work and
struggles.
Contact:
Rutvica Andrijasevic: [log in to unmask]
Sarah Bracke: [log in to unmask]
Cristina Gamberi: [log in to unmask]
Marta Garro: [log in to unmask]
Anna Rappazzo: [log in to unmask]
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