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- Convenors:
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Henrike Kraul
(Freie Universität Berlin)
Anne Kukuczka (University of Zurich)
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- Format:
- Workshop
- Working groups:
- Gender & Sexualities - Queer Anthropology
Short Abstract:
This panel invites contributions that explore practices, politics, and visions of un/commoning through a feminist anthropological lens. It aims to discuss the multiple possibilities that feminist anthropology offers to think with and through un/commoning across diverse landscapes of scholarship.
Long Abstract:
This panel invites contributions that explore practices, politics, and visions of un/commoning through a feminist anthropological lens. It aims to discuss the multiple possibilities that feminist anthropology offers to think with and through un/commoning across diverse landscapes of scholarship. We propose that feminist anthropology by virtue of its methodology, epistemology and ethics, is well equipped to critically engage with processes of un/communing across various contexts and scales. At the same time, we think of feminist anthropology itself as a potential practice of un/commoning with its history of challenging hegemonic knowledges and knowledge production and envisioning hopeful futures – both within academia and beyond.
The aim of our workshop is to bring together scholars who draw on feminist anthropology to discuss their conceptual and ethnographic work and to position queer-feminist anthropology itself as an approach towards un/commoning. We are particularly interested in fostering conversations amongst scholars whose work revolves around one (or more) of the following aspects:
- Critical analyses of feminist commons and un/commoning practices, politics and visions related to creating collective modes of solidarity and care (e.g., feminist organising and struggles in relation to communal learning, urban commons, activism, amongst others)
- The promises and limits of un/commoning as political and ethical practice (e.g., What kind of communities are created through un/commoning? How do variously positioned actors address and work through asymmetrical power relations?)
- Reflections on feminist anthropology as an un/commoning practice and its potential for the transformation of our discipline (e.g., methodologically, theoretically, ethically).