[Commlist] CFP workshop 'Affect and Violence: Gendering the Middle East'

Please see below the CfP for our upcoming workshop 'Affect and Violence: 
Gendering the Middle East' as part of the Gender Studies 2019 
Conference: On Violence, to be held at the University of Helsinki, 24-26 
October.  For any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact me 
((s.tafakori /at/ lse.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.tafakori /at/ lse.ac.uk)>) and/or Dr Sabiha 
Allouche ((sa130 /at/ soas.ac.uk) <mailto:(sa130 /at/ soas.ac.uk)>).  It would be 
really appreciated if you could share this CfP. The deadline for 
abstracts is *30 April. *
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17. Affect and Violence: Gendering the Middle East

The aim of the proposed workshop is to explore the role of emotions and 
affect in (re)presenting, normalizing and shaping the contours of gender 
and violence in reference to the Middle East and North Africa in 
particular and the global south more broadly. There has been a good deal 
of scholarly attention in recent years to affects around conflict, 
disaster, vulnerability and trauma, but largely in relation to 
Euro-American perspectives and theorisations. This workshop aims instead 
to engage with the ways in which emotional framings of violence and 
gender in the MENA region are shaped by the co-constitution of local and 
global, West and non-West, and the historical and the everyday within 
transnational contexts.  We encourage submissions which examine in what 
ways the geopolitics of nationalism, (in)security, conflict and crisis 
in the region reinforce or complicate gendered and racialised 
discourses, and how the tasks of solidarity are rendered more complex 
and layered as a result.  These concerns may be shaped by attention to 
the broader context of the role of epistemic violence in constructions 
of the region, in the biopolitics and necropolitics of managing the life 
and death of populations.

We welcome papers which speak to these or related issues.  Contributions 
may address the role of affect in, for example, orientalising and 
racialising regimes of grievability and vulnerability; emotional 
narratives of gendered violence in online and/or offline popular 
culture, including visual mediations of violence; banal and ordinary 
framings of violence and gender vis-à-vis singular moments of crisis and 
rupture; non-Western security imaginaries; violence in collective memory 
and narratives of trauma; diasporic and migratory geographies of affect, 
gender and violence.

Please make sure the abstract includes:  (1) how the proposal is related 
to the theme of the workshop and (2) the main ideas and key points of 
the proposed presentation. Abstracts should be no more than *250 
words* (2000 characters including spaces) in length.  Please include the 
main research question, outline methodology/methods, research 
materials/data and preliminary outcomes if the proposal is an academic 
research paper. *For more details, please see the link below:*

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference

<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference>
	
Gender Studies 2019 conference | University of Helsinki 
<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference>
What is violence? How is violence normalized in some contexts? How do 
gender, sexuality, race, and class, among other axes of power, intersect 
making some bodies more prone to experiencing violence? How to subvert 
and challenge different forms of violence, and what are the respectful 
and nuanced ...
www.helsinki.fi <http://www.helsinki.fi/>


For guidelines on how to submit your abstract, please see the link below:

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/gender-studies-2019-conference/call-for-papers


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