Conference Sessions

Gender intersects with other axes of identity to create particular experiences of working life. Women, girls, and marginalized groups earn less, have fewer opportunities for employment, education and training, and contend with poverty, health challenges, discriminatory norms, policies and practices that do not adequately consider the needs of diverse women or mothers. Their work is often sorted, segregated, and routinely devalued and devalorised. Acknowledging ongoing and persistent gender inequalities in workplaces and the labour market, this session invited papers that explore and consider the material conditions of gender and work under capitalist patriarchy. We also invited scholars to consider the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated, reified, or transformed intersecting inequalities.

Gender intersects with other axes of identity to create particular experiences of working life. Women, girls, and marginalized groups earn less, have fewer opportunities for employment, education and training, and contend with poverty, health challenges, discriminatory norms, policies and practices that do not adequately consider the needs of diverse women or mothers. Their work is often sorted, segregated, and routinely devalued and devalorised. Acknowledging ongoing and persistent gender inequalities in workplaces and the labour market, this session invited papers that explore and consider the material conditions of gender and work under capitalist patriarchy. We also invited scholars to consider the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated, reified, or transformed intersecting inequalities.

This session critically engages with the concept and practice of intersectionality as an academic and political project. In seeking to understand its intellectual and activist origins, co-optations, and continuing relevance, the session poses the following questions: How is intersectionality articulated and applied today, what does it offer? How do analyses and action that are intersectional transform and expand feminist and sociological projects? Can intersectional frameworks account for complex identities and social locations without privileging particular oppressions or statuses of social stratification? Is it helpful to supplement intersectional analysis with other frameworks (e.g. queer theory, crip theory)? What is the role of intersectional research in challenging Whiteness, carceral/militarized state violence, sexual and gender-based violence, and other multidimensional oppressions? What strategies does intersectionality bring to address inequality and advance inclusiveness? How does intersectionality shape coalition and solidarity building strategies? What can intersectionality contribute to both social justice struggles and to productive world-making and joy producing practices?

This session invited papers which discuss and analyze feminist approaches to challenging war and violence, as well as all forms of hatred including misogyny, racism, and speciesism. The escalation of war and violence across the globe, combined with the urgency of the climate crisis, call for alternative paradigms which highlight the interconnectedness of all life on the planet, including human life and the more than human world. Building on the conference theme, Challenging Hate: Sustaining shared futures, we invite anticolonial, decolonizing, and intersectional feminist and ecofeminist perspectives which challenge all forms of oppression, inequality and hatred among peoples, as well as destructive human relations with the environment and other species in our interdependent world.

Amidst the evolving geopolitical landscape, marked by the Taliban's ascendancy in Afghanistan, the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran, escalating femicides in Turkey, the increasing gender-based violence in Sudan amidst war, the genocide in Gaza coupled with criminalization of solidarity with Palestine, and gender-related adversities from the Arab region to Pakistan and India, there is an emerging paradigm shift in feminist alliances. A proactive younger generation is envisioning a progressive future, underpinned by collective mobilization against state-sanctioned gender violence. In the context of "Challenging Hate: Sustaining Shared Futures," in this session we focus on understanding the nature of solidarity, particularly where human rights violations intersect with gender inequalities.

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