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P59


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Violent states, survival work and caring citizens 
Convenors:
Philippa Williams (Queen Mary University Of London)
Deepta Chopra (Institute of Development Studies)
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Format:
Panel
:
Palmer G.02
Sessions:
Friday 30 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel interrogates forms of, and responses to, intimate and state violence through the lens of everyday acts of citizenship, care and survival work. The panel aims to surface how gender and sexual minorities (re)negotiate and contest authority, power and the law through the social.

Long Abstract:

This panel will interrogate forms of, and responses to, intimate and state violence through the lens of everyday acts of citizenship, care and survival work. The papers in this panel show that acts of intimate and state violence and repression such as domestic violence in India; abortion bans in the USA; enforced veiling in Iran; forced evictions in Cambodia; and discriminatory citizenship laws in India are not passively accepted. Instead, survivors of violence and citizens of these states engage in everyday 'survival work' (Brickell 2020), often forged through/against the social and the state in new ways that upset and reveal the ever-assiduous boundaries between the private and public.

These myriad forms and strategies of resistance, and agency beyond resistance, show how women and sexual minorities are navigating, negotiating and contesting authority, power and the law in ways. These strategies (still) warrant that the intimate and the private be recognised as political and public matters, at the same time as acts of care bring the private sphere into public sites. Such an approach to violence in intimate and state spaces invites an examination of: the relationships between and the (re)configurations of public-private lives and spaces (Gajjala 2016) including the role of care in blurring these boundaries (Chopra and Sanyal 2022); violence as constitutive of social reproduction (Datta 2016); manifestations of the global-intimate (Mountz and Hyndman 2006) and; what it means to survive everyday violence in the 'crisis ordinary' (Berlant 2011; Brickell 2020) as a few examples.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 30 June, 2023, -
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