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Accepted Paper:
Vulnerable bodies as battlegrounds: precarious femininities and masculinities under the patriarchal violence
Vasiliki Polykarpou
(Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences)
Paper short abstract:
This paper will focus on the cases that formed the contemporary politics of mourning in contemporary Greece through an intersectional feminist approach that will draw on the cases of the murder of Zak Kostopoulos, the femicide of Eleni Topaloudi and the transcide of Dimitra/Dimitris Kalogiannis.
Paper long abstract:
Since 2015 the queer and feminist movements in Greece have entered a new era of political action fighting for social injustice and defending several emerging forms of the politics of mourning and loss. The murder of Zak Kostopoulos, the femicide of Eleni Topaloudi and the transcide of Dimitra/Dimitris, are some of the cases that formed the politics of remembrance and mourning and shaped the attempts for the intersectional feminist politics in Greece. Reflecting on the interviews of my interlocutors that are vivid parts of the social movements and the political communities in Athens, I intend to approach the topic through the notion of intersectionality as a critical social theory (Collins 2019, Crenshaw 1991) and the theoretical framework of situated knowledges (Haraway 1988). Through this presentation I will try to underline the ways in which the vulnerability of the subalterns and the fragile bodies under the oppression of patriarchy, capitalism, ableism and white supremacy, shape the political responses and the feminist resistance in Greece.