Violence, Bodies, Selves: Feminist Engagements in International Politics
University of Manchester , 23 May 2008
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Gender & IR in Britainthis workshop brings together feminist scholars to discuss the multitude of violent practices in international politics and how these practices operate on particular bodies. The workshop will explore the ways in which feminist theories of international politics have (re)conceptualised and challenged dominant categories in the field, such as war, conflict and peace. In particular, the workshop will think through how the rendering of particular gendered subjectivities make possible particular violent practices in international politics. In so doing, participants will be encouraged to reflect on feminist political and philosophical interventions in the field over the past twenty years and how these interventions are valuable and can make a difference in thinking through our contemporary contexts. As such, the workshop will consider the affects/effects on who we are, and importantly, on who we may become, in the world we live in.
Cristina Masters
Workshop Convenor
cristina.masters@manchester.ac.uk