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[Commlist] CfP for 2025 ATGENDER conference Contemporary feminist liberation struggles: bodies, borders, and intersections.
Wed Jan 15 11:50:16 GMT 2025
The ATGENDER board would like to invite you to submit your abstract for
the upcoming 2025 conference:
*CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST LIBERATION STRUGGLES: BODIES, BORDERS, AND
INTERSECTIONS.*
12th EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE
– ATGENDER 2025 –
9-12 JULY – BARCELONA (CATALONIA, SPAIN)
*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*
**CfP Deadline Extended to 31st January 2025**
*Introduction: *
In an era marked by heightened oppressions, including ongoing genocides,
(neo-)colonialism and imperialism, violent conflicts, and intersecting
injustice and socio-political turbulence, the 12th European Feminist
Research Conference invites scholars, activists, and practitioners to
engage in critical dialogues around the theme “Contemporary Feminist
Liberation Struggles: bodies, borders, and intersections”. Building upon
the rich tradition of feminist inquiry and activism, this conference
seeks to explore how feminist thought and praxis continue to disrupt and
challenge prevailing power structures in the face of persistent
injustices, aggressions, and authoritarian power grabs.
The conference theme is rooted in the pressing need to address the
multifaceted dimensions of contemporary oppressions and struggles for
liberation, fostering interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations
across a broad range of research topics. By foregrounding bodies,
borders, and intersections, as well as the voices and experiences of
those most affected by repression, the conference aims to delve into the
intricate ways in which individuals and communities navigate, resist and
chart pathways to confront systems of harm, violence and injustice.
Exploring the transformative potential of feminist liberation that
centers intersectional, queer, non-adultocentric and anti/decolonial
feminisms, participants will interrogate the interlocking systems of
power that shape experiences of violence, displacement, and resistance.
The conference has 10 thematic strands, each shedding light on critical
aspects of contemporary struggles for liberation.
*Conference thematic tracks or strands*:*
*STRAND 1. *Gender, Climate Change and Environment
*STRAND 2. *Desiring sub/versions: sexualities, gender identities and
belongings
*STRAND 3. *“/Mundo zurdo”/: decolonial struggles, subversive affects
and feminist disorders
*STRAND 4.* Epistemologies and methodologies (of) in between.* *
*STRAND 5. *Institutional violence, transformation, and justice:
contemporary harms and intersectional struggles for justice within and
beyond institutions
*STRAND 6. *Intergenerational Feminists Perspectives**
*STRAND 7. *(Un)mattering of worlds: feminist and other critical
perspectives on science and technology
*STRAND 8. *Feminist Subversions for Peace: Rights, Cultures, and
Communities
*STRAND 9. *Geopolitical, Socio-Cultural, and Personal Borders
*STRAND 10. *Rebuilding Communities: Transformative justice in conflict-
and violence-affected contexts
/ *Strands descriptions at the bottom of this document./
*Conference Format:*
The 12th European Feminist Research Conference will be an on-site event
only, looking forward to welcoming you in Barcelona.
*Proposed types of submission: *
OPTION 1. Independent paper (1 or up to 3 presenters per paper)
OPTION 2. Panel discussion (between 3 and 4 papers)
OPTION 3. Workshop (1 or up to 3 facilitators).
Note about workshops: We encourage and support alternative session
formats such as interactive workshops to foster creative dialogue and
practical skills among participants.
*Submission guidelines:*
* All proposal must be submitted through the online submission form
(see the link below), no later than December 20th 2024:
* Submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed by strand coordinators.
Notification of acceptance will be sent to the corresponding
presenters by the beginning of February.
* Proposals can be submitted to one strand only.
* Participants can only submit one paper (independent or in panel) OR
submit one workshop proposal. However, they can also appear as
co-presenters on other submissions.
* Submissions must adhere to established research ethics standards,
ensuring integrity and transparency of data collection, and respect
and privacy for participants.
* ATGENDER is committed to confronting structures of power. It
acknowledges past and present institutionalized forms of inequities.
It recognizes and stands in solidarity with group struggles against
intersecting forms of structural oppression. It acknowledges the
importance of advocating peaceful measures stipulated by the UN
Charter to put pressure on states committing gross violations, to
comply with international and humanitarian law.
*Guidelines for each type of submission:*
*OPTION 1. Independent paper*
Name, affiliation and email address of corresponding presenter; Name,
affiliation and email address of co-presenters; short biographies of the
presenter(s) (50 words each); information about visa requirement; title;
keywords (up to 3); abstract (max 250 words)
*OPTION 2. Panel*
Panel title and key words (up to 3), title and abstract of each paper
(minimum 3, and up to 4), name, affiliation, email and short bio (max 50
words) of corresponding panellist and other panellists; information
about visa requirement.
*OPTION 3. Workshop: interactive sessions*
Name, affiliation and email address of corresponding facilitator; Name,
affiliation and email address of co-facilitator; short biographies of
the facilitator(s) (50 words each); information about visa requirement;
title; keywords (up to 3); abstract (max 250 words)
*Form for submitting the proposals: *
All submissions should be made using the following form:
*_https://forms.office.com/e/ihgpzNnkgk
<https://forms.office.com/e/ihgpzNnkgk>_*
*Notice for Participants Subjected to Visa Barriers*
*ATGENDER *is committed to facilitating the participation of scholars
who require a visa to attend ATGENDER conferences. We understand that
securing a visa can be a time-sensitive and sometimes challenging
process, particularly for participants from the global South(s) and
non-European regions. *Visa processing times can vary significantly and
may take up to 3 months or more.*
Therefore, we intend to review the abstracts of applicants that indicate
that they would need a visa to attend the conference as promptly as
possible so that those accepted can start their visa procedures.
We encourage* all applicants requiring a visa to get in touch with us as
early as possible* to discuss what additional documentation you may
require (e.g. an invitation letter).
*Strand descriptions: *
*STRAND 1. Gender, Climate Change and Environment: *
*KEY WORD: ANTHROPOCENE*
“Climate change encompasses and exacerbates every other problem
threatening human progress in the twenty-first century” (United Nations
2014). This is particularly concerning in light of gender disparities
and their intersection with other axes of inequality. In this context of
the global environmental crisis, this strand focuses on the conflicts
and challenges at the intersection of gender, climate change, wellbeing,
and the environment. How can feminist and intersectional approaches
contribute to understanding climate vulnerabilities and community-based
response to climate change induced ecological transformation change?
What are the daily, embodied, and imminent threats to collective
wellbeing that gender normative policies ignore and members of the
global south and peripheries navigate on the daily. Scholars are invited
to think through non-linear social ecosystems and share, engage with,
and hold discourse around a view of the world that pays due to holistic
connections and the merits of intuition and collaboration. How is
everyday life affected by climate change? Further, how can inter-species
and intersectional feminist action work beyond the false separation
between androcentric development ideology and ecology? How can feminist
activism and research include environmental challenges to suggest policy
and social changes to facilitate adaptation and mitigation? And how,
when the state refuses to listen, can feminists stall, prevent, and deny
trespasses against our ecologies?
*List of invited topics*
* Gendered interactions with water and landscapes
* Gendered interactions with water and landscapes.
* Gendered Impacts of Climate Change: Addressing Pollution, Waste, and
Food Security in the Face of Scarcity
* Feminisms, ecofeminism and feminist environmentalism: resonances,
divergences and collaboration.
* Climate change, dwelling, green inequalities and gentrification in
urban environments.
* Feminist Intersectionalities in Climate Policy: Building Inclusive
Strategies and Expanding Policy Analysis.
* Strategies, successes and on-going feminist struggles against state
sanctioned ‘development’. Gender and development in times of climate
change.
* Feminist and intersectional perspectives on climate migration.
* Feminist and intersectional methodologies for the study of climate
change and
environment.
* Climate change and environmental conflicts beyond human perspectives.
* Sustainable actions and policies on climate change and environmental
conflicts.
* Feminist Resourcefulness and Environmental Activism in Times of
Climate Crisis and Conflict
* Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Livelihood Strategies, Feminist
Action, and Climate Resilience
*STRAND 2. Desiring sub/versions: sexualities, gender identities and
belongings *
*KEY WORD: SEXUALITIES, DESIRES, IDENTITIES*
This strand delves into desire, identity, and belonging within from an
intersectional, queer and feminist perspectives. We welcome proposals
featuring empirical and theoretical research on how gender identity,
expression, sexual orientation and characteristics intersect with
various forms of discrimination and privilege, shaping experiences of
exclusion and violence, including in situations of imperialist
occupation and liberation and other armed struggles. We are also
welcoming proposals addressing coping mechanisms and strategies used by
LGBTQI+ individuals and communities in countries where their identities
and lives are made illegal as well as in refugee/asylum settings. We
seek to initiate discussions on how individuals navigate both physical
and symbolic boundaries, especially within spaces, bodies and
communities influenced by different norms, including
cisheteronormativity and homonormativity. Moreover, we are keen on
analysis focusing on the formation of communities of belonging and
shedding light on their alliances and internal conflicts. Overall, our
goal is to foster critical dialogue surrounding desire, identity, and
belonging, offering insights from diverse sites of knowledge.
*List of invited topics:*
* Intersectional impact of racism, classism, sexism, ableism, ageism
and other axes of inequality in LGBTIQ lived experiences
* The impact of living under occupation, liberation struggles and
humanitarian emergencies on LGBTIQ+ lived experiences and the
development of coping mechanisms and strategies
* The navigation of non-binary identities and gender dissidence beyond
the binary
* The role of sexual and gender dissidence and desire in the
construction of identities and communities of belonging
* Sexual and reproductive and LGBTIQ+ rights and activism
* Queering families, kinship structures and communities
* Intersectional experiences of structural, community and
interpersonal violence and responses
* Religion, spirituality, and sexual and gender dissidence
* Questions of visibility/invisibility, discrimination and representation
* Issues of medicalisation, sexual and reproductive and mental health
* Coping strategies for and by LGBTQI+ individuals and communities
when dealing with ‘illegality‘ as well as discriminatory policies in
refugee and asylum-seeking settings and systems.
*STRAND 3: “/Mundo zurdo”/: decolonial struggles, subversive affects and
feminist disorders.*
*KEY WORDS: decoloniality, relationality, subversion, affects*
Gloria Anzaldúa’s /El mundo zurdo/ (the left-handed world) envisions the
interconnectedness in the margins, as entanglements of subjects,
cultures and societies that produce a politics of the eccentric,
displacement and dispossession. By reversing the hegemony of the
imperial power relations, el /mundo zurdo /is grounded in heterogeneity,
multiplicity and turbulence and provides space for uncertainty and
contestation. In this strand, we invite participants to draw from
Anzaldúa’s work and build “”un mundo zurdo entre nosotr@s” with
contributions that explore the decolonial struggles, subversive affects
and feminist disorders across the Northern and Southern hemispheres,
across disciplines and standpoints.
*List of invited topics:*
* Feminist borderlands and deterritorialization
* Contemporary visions of the coloniality of gender
* Anticolonial/decolonial feminist research and praxis
* Embracing divergence and inhabiting the conflicts of
intersectionality and decoloniality
* Feminist encounters and epistemic justice
* Decolonial writing machines: autoethnography, polyphony and
schizophrenia
* Precarious subjectivities: uprooted, shamans and rebels
* Protests in the subversive disorders of a porous society
* Embodying and resisting disease, desire, and deviation
* Affects, emotions and moods in feminist and queer relations
* Antiracist and anticolonial /artivisms/
*STRAND 4: Epistemologies and methodologies (of) in between *
*KEY WORDS: EPISTEMOLOGIES AND METHODOLOGIES*
This strand seeks to critically examine and explore diverse
methodologies and epistemologies employed in gender studies and
feminist research. It delves into how we design, apply and evaluate
methodologies rooted in feminist principles, emphasizing the importance
of reflexivity, positionality, situated knowledge, (post)representation
and de/anticoloniality. It can encompass a range of approaches,
including standpoint theory, feminist participatory action research,
art-based research and autoethnography, among others. We invite
discussions on how feminist methodologies contribute to challenging
dominant narratives, amplifying marginalized voices, and fostering
inclusive, non-extractivist, socially responsible and just research
practices. We also interrogate dominant epistemological frameworks and
explore critical perspectives that challenge traditional ways of
knowing, such as critical race theory, queer theory, de/anticolonial and
non-adultocentric approaches. Moreover, we aim at exploring
methodologies, beyond move beyond West-Eurocentrism and help to deepen
our understanding of a variety of complex lived experiences and address
the intersecting systems of oppression and privilege. Acknowledging the
plurality of research methods utilized in gender studies and feminist
research, we also want to examine the strengths and limitations of
various methodological traditions and invite discussions on integrating
qualitative (post qualitative), quantitative and art-based methods to
produce nuanced insights into gendered phenomena.
*List of invited topics:*
* Reflexivity and researcher positionality in feminist research.
* Decolonizing methodologies and knowledge production.
* Productive strategies toward exploring and bridging divides and
tensions in various traditions and ‘canons’ of de- and anticolonial
thought and praxis
* Methodological innovations for studying gendered violence, conflict,
and resistance.
* Ethical considerations in gender studies research, including
non-extractivist methodologies
* Quantitative approaches to intersectional analysis and gender
disparities.
* The role of digital methodologies and new technologies in feminist
research.
* Feminist posthumanism and new materialism, challenging
anthropocentric research.
* Art-based and visual research
* Non-adultocentric methods.
*STRAND 5*. *Institutional violence, transformation, and justice:
contemporary harms and intersectional struggles for justice within and
beyond institutions.*
*KEY WORDS: violence, justice, harm, institutions, abolition,
transformative justice, responses to violence *
This strand examines different manifestations of violence, harm, and
vulnerability across institutional contexts. It is concerned with how
institutions perpetuate and (re)produce punitive logics, policing
regimes, surveillance, and embodied and emotional harms that diminish
the capacity for intersectional forms of justice, equality, and
liberation to flourish. We welcome scholarship concerned with these
questions across different institutional contexts: from punitive welfare
systems and social services; to educational settings; criminal justice
systems; political institutions and beyond. We welcome contributions
that seek to understand how violence, punishment, and harm manifest
across different registers (emotional, discursive, embodied, cognitive,
social, physical etc) within institutional settings. Institutional harms
do not affect people equally, and we therefore centre accounts that
critically examine how harm and vulnerability are shaped according to
existing intersecting inequalities and injustices.
As well as analyses of how, where and when contemporary violence and
harm occurs, we seek contributions from scholars, educators and
activists who work to imagine new ways of being with one another,
alternative forms of justice, liberation, and world building. We
therefore encourage papers that examine imaginative, intersectional,
anti-colonial and non-neoliberal responses to contemporary institutional
harms, violence, and vulnerabilities across settings; responses that
seek to avoid the (re)production of new forms of surveillance, policing,
and violence. We are particularly interested in contributions that
explore responses to institutional violence that go beyond reformist
agendas. This may include work that examines the capacity for
institutional transformation, abolitionist thinking, transformative
justice approaches, and non-reformist reforms.
*Lis of invited topics:*
We encourage papers that interrogate institutional violence across
contexts and which critically examine different responses to
institutional violence.
* Analyses of how subjugation, surveillance, control, and punishment
are (re)produced in different institutional contexts (e.g.
educational, welfare systems and social services, and legal/justice
systems);
* Punitive logics and institutional surveillance within and beyond the
criminal justice system;
* People’s agency to resist and deal with everyday institutional
violence;
* Abolishing institutions – the possibilities and problematics;
* Producing material change: non-reformist reforms and transformative
justice;
* Other alternative justice and care practices;
* Critical examination of institutional processes like equality action
plans, complaint systems and other forms of accountability.
* Given recent accounts of violence and harassment within different
institutional contexts (e.g. in politics and universities) we
welcome papers that examine institutional feminist – restorative
responses to harassment and abuse.
* Increasingly, institutional harms cannot be understood in isolation
from transnational movements and discourses. This is particularly
the case with how transnational anti-gender movements are, for
example, shaping national and local educational settings (through
banning books, content and teaching about inclusive relationships
and families) and regressive rolling back of reproductive rights. We
therefore also welcome analyses of institutional violence and harm
that connect with, and trouble the relationship between,
transnational and local dynamics.
* Welfare systems, including social services, have developed practices
of violence for years against colonised bodies rooted in poverty and
vulnerability under capitalist, racist, xenophobic, and sexist
systems, even when well-being is a right. We welcome critical
scholarship on how welfare systems, including social services,
interact with communities and individuals they supposedly support.
We particularly seek contributions that engage in intersectional
analyses of how welfare systems (re)produce structural disadvantage
and vulnerability, paying attention to factors such as poverty,
migration, racialization, aging, adultocentrism, capabilities,
cis-heterosexism, and/or gender-based violence.
*STRAND 6. Intergenerational Feminists Perspectives *
* KEY WORDS: INTERGENERATIONALITY (RECOGNIZING CHILDREN / ELDERLY
CONTRIBUTIONS)*
This strand aims to centralize and promote the diverse experiences and
contributions of individuals across different generations, employing an
intergenerational perspective to delve into feminist knowledge and
politics, including subversions, activisms, narratives and dilemmas. By
acknowledging the unique agencies, vulnerabilities, challenges, and
opportunities that arise from each stage of life – from childhood and
youth to adulthood and old age, the theme endeavours to foster
intergenerational dialogue, reciprocity and collaboration to explore
the political, social, cultural, and affective potential and
possibilities as well as challenges that emerges from the intersections
of age, identity, and activism.
Feminist research and activism evolve and intersects across generations.
Mapping these (inter)generational engagements offers insights into the
contexts, conflicts and conditions which animate feminist politics in
and across different times and places. Additionally, it highlights the
ways in which age-based power dynamics, ageism, and adultocentrism shape
feminist discourse and praxis; and uncovers the transformative
potential, as well as tensions and challenges, that emerges from the
intersections and interactions across age and generation. Drawing upon
the wisdom, challenges, and lessons of generations across time and age
while actively engaging with the tensions, hopes and aspirations of the
present, we invite contributions which explore a range of topics, including:
*List of invited topics:*
* Continuities, challenges, and changes within feminist activism,
scholarship, and politics over life-course.
* Possibilities and tensions of feminist friendships and relationships
in building intergenerational interdependency, reciprocity,
politics, and solidarity.
* The contributions, agencies and roles of children and youth in
feminist resistance, politics and discourse.
* The ways in which feminist politics, knowledge and subjectivities
change, shape and become over time.
* Continuum of past, present, and future feminist struggles.
* The intersectional life course of inequalities, including ageism,
sexism, racism, abelism, and LGBTIQ+phobia.
* Childhood, youth and older age engagements in producing and enacting
gender.
* The role of the digital in how children encounter, negotiate,
interpret and/or resist gender, from the popularity of feminist and
queer content on social media platforms, to the rise of the far
right and ‘manfluencers’ as parts of children’s everyday digital lives.
*STRAND 7 (Un)mattering of worlds: feminist and other critical
perspectives on science and technology*.
*KEY WORD: Science, Technology, Gender, Race, Disability, and Transness *
Stream 7 is dedicated to feminist and other critical perspectives on
science and technology. We are interested in how science and technology
are interwoven with power, bodies, knowledge, and the (un)mattering of
worlds. We particularly encourage contributions that address (the
intersections of) race, transness, and disability and how these relate
to feminist perspectives on science and technology. Stream 7 strives to
discuss not only how marginalized bodies are constrained through science
and technology but also how science and technology can function as
technologies of the self and the body. What interventions in science and
technology are necessary for (feminist) struggles for liberation, and to
what extent can science and technology themselves become means for
(feminist) struggles for liberation?
*List of invited topics:*
* Gender, race, trans, disability as/and technologies. When and how
have gender, race, disability, and transness been used as
biopolitical technologies to uphold asymmetrical power relations?
And what technologies have been used to maintain the
appearance/materialization of stable biopolitical identity categories?
* Making of bodies and selves through technologies. To what extent can
bodies and technologies be separated in the first place? How can
(scientific) technologies, such as different forms of body
modification or the like, be understood as potentials for
re-articulating and re-mattering marginalized bodies?
* Critical histories of (hard) science. How the ´hard´ sciences have
relied upon and/or reproduced differentiations within and amongst
national and colonial subjects that upheld cis-normative and
hetero-patriarchal regimes of extraction and subordination both in
the ´centre(s)´ and ´peripheri(es).´
* Gender mainstreaming. What bottom-up user initiatives have proved
effective in obtaining accountability from the biomedical and
experimental sciences / technology developers with regard to the
various experiences and need of differently gendered subjects?
* Techno-feminisms. What kind of technologies have been or should be
developed from a feminist-informed standpoint and what uses can or
should they serve? Do these technologies disrupt hegemonic power
relations in the hi-tech and communication fields? Do they
facilitate concurrent struggles for liberation?
* Minor knowledge(s). What has been the role of marginalized subjects
in redefining legitimate knowledge about science and technology? Are
digital platforms democratizing public debates on science and
technology?
* Epistemological avenues for the experimental sciences.
* Cultures of the experimental sciences. Structural issues, celebrated
identities and (im)possible trajectories.
*STRAND 8. Feminist Subversions for Peace: Rights, Cultures, and
Communities *
*KEY WORDS: Resistance, Struggles, Activisms, Subversions *
This strand explores the transformative power of feminist subversions in
promoting resistance, activism and peace focusing on the intersections
of rights, cultures, and communities. In an era marked by conflict and
the erosion of rights, feminist perspectives challenge and reimagine
conventional approaches to peacebuilding by emphasizing inclusivity,
intersectionality, and social justice. The strand encompasses various
forms of resistance and subversion that disrupt patriarchal, colonial,
and capitalist structures perpetuating violence and inequality. By
analyzing the roles of feminist activism, community dynamics, and
cultural identities, we seek to uncover how feminist strategies can
confront and dismantle systems of oppression.
Feminist human rights advocacy, peacebuilding and activism involve
critical engagement with formal and informal practices, policy
frameworks, and grassroots movements. It aims to cultivate an
understanding of human rights, promote critical thinking, and encourage
non-violent conflict resolution, addressing the unique challenges faced
by women and communities in the margins. This strand will highlight how
feminist theories and practices can reshape approaches to peace,
resistance and justice, fostering inclusive, respectful, and dialogical
spaces that value diverse cultural perspectives.
*List of invited topics:*
* Intersectional feminist approaches to peacebuilding, resistance and
activism
* Critical reflections on human rights and feminist peacebuilding
* Community-based feminist initiatives for conflict resolution and
resistance
* Feminist theories applied to struggles against oppression
* Cultural narratives and their role in feminist activism for rights
* Activism and feminist perspectives on human rights violations
* Gender and feminist dimensions of resistance, subversion and human
rights advocacy
* The role of feminist art and expression in advocating for social change
* Feminist silence and silencing in the peace building process
*STRAND 9. Geopolitical, Socio-Cultural, and Personal Borders *
*KEY WORDS: borders, boundaries, transitions, migration, war, climate
justice*
The current climate change-induced cascades of humanitarian crises
across borders in Europe and beyond illuminate and further reinstate the
historical, geopolitical, socio-cultural, techno-digital, and personal
dimensions of bordering and the governance of human movement. This
strand aims to create a platform for exploring the various realities,
violations, and paradoxes inherent within borders. For instance, while
globalisation has weakened national borders, the rise in transnational
mobility has intensified the digital and discursive fortifications.
These processes are further exacerbated by the digitalisation of
migration control and management policies developed by the Global North
(Leurs and Smets, 2018; Chouliaraki and Georgiou, 2022; Korkmaz, 2023;
Chaar López, 2024).
Understanding the border as a geographical-territorial, symbolic, and
social limit that complicates the lives of migrants, it is essential to
examine the scale of the progressive racialisations, feminisations, and
other types of hierarchisations of migration, which position vulnerable
and discriminated groups as the forefront of the criminalisation and
various forms of violence of the states. This phenomenon can, for
example, be seen as part of a global trend, such as the internalisation
of care services. These dynamics foster the creation of interracial,
polylinguistic, and multi-contextual hybrid identities, which are
(re)constructed within diasporas and at the border (Anzaldúa, 1987;
Haraway, 1992). Therefore, this strand invites contributions that
investigate how contemporary geopolitical and socio-cultural borders
intertwine different systems of domination (gender, race, class, etc.),
while also considering how border spaces can become sites of resistance
and transformation, where new realities and corporealities are forged.
*List of invited topics:*
The topics covered may include, but are not limited to:
* Feminist analyses of migration processes
* Transgender and transnational movements
* Development of digital technologies for border control
* Sexual and gender-based violence against migrant and refugee women
* Feminist frontiers and strategies for collective action
* Negotiating and constructing migrant identity: forced racialisation
and resistance
* Geopolitical analysis of borders, racism, sexism, and social,
labour, political, and legal segregation
* Political and epistemological insights from border feminism
*STRAND 10. Rebuilding Communities: Transformative justice in conflict-
and violence-affected contexts*
*KEY WORDS: /community rebuilding, abolitionist frameworks,
transformative justice, decolonial reparations, community
accountability, grassroots organizing, mutual aid, post-conflict
resolution, power asymmetry/*
This strand explores the multifaceted processes of rebuilding and
transforming communities disrupted by various forms of harm, violence
and injustice, including conflict. By incorporating abolitionist
thinking and transformative justice frameworks, it moves beyond
traditional reformist approaches to examine reparative strategies such
as community accountability, mutual aid, grassroots organizing, and
solidarity networks. The strand also critically engages with Western
ontological distinctions and challenges the binary framing of the global
North/global South in institutional and developmental narratives. By
highlighting power asymmetries linked to contemporary imperialism,
(neo)colonialism, structural inequalities, and the rise of
anti-immigration and anti-gender agendas, this strand calls for a deeper
understanding of justice that transcends conflict resolution and
encompasses diverse times, locations, and institutions. It focuses on
the need to address not only conflict, but also institutional,
infrastructural, and state-sanctioned harm, as well as the systemic
violence experienced by marginalized communities. Recognizing the
limitations of reformist approaches that leave discriminatory structures
intact, the strand advocates for radical, inclusive, participatory, and
equitable strategies of reconstruction. Reconstruction in the wake of
conflict and systemic harm necessitates reinstalling difference and
prioritizing sidelined knowledge systems and identities—rejecting a
return to a pre-conflict “normal.” Effective community rebuilding
requires not only physical restoration but also efforts to rebuild
social and cultural capital. The strand emphasizes participatory,
non-hierarchical, and abolitionist feminist approaches, recognizing the
importance of community agency in achieving sustainable and meaningful
recovery. This strand encourages a rethinking of healing processes
through activist strategies and knowledge rooted in grassroots
practices, community organizing, and hands-on interventions. It
advocates for approaches that not only rebuild but transform
communities, making them more resilient to future challenges. We welcome
contributions addressing topics such as, but not limited to:
*List of invited topics:*
* Abolitionist approaches for community rebuilding and justice-making
* Decolonizing development narratives in post-conflict and post-harm
reconstruction
* Gendered impacts of conflict and systemic violence in and beyond
institutions
* Anti-gender and anti-immigration discourses in institutional and
community recovery efforts
* Intersectionality and participatory methods in shaping recovery
strategies
* Restitution and global justice frameworks across different
governmental and institutional contexts
* Decolonial feminist perspectives on transformative justice,
reparation and reconciliation processes
* The role of transformative and reparative justice in tackling
institutional harm, including staff/student abuse in academia
* Justice beyond reform: Toward structural and systemic transformation
* Accountability in personal, community and state level
* Activist and community-driven strategies to address harm
* Practices of solidarity networks, coalition building and mutual aid
for collective healing and building life-affirming institutions
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