15.06.2021, 18:15 Uhr
Chiara Bottici (New School for Social Research, New York)
Anarchafeminism
Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Director of Gender Studies at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College (New York). She is the author, among others, of Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (2014). Her feminist experimental writing Per tre miti, forse quattro was published in 2016 and is forthcoming in an English translation with Bloomsbury under the title A feminist mythology, along with her Anarchafeminism, which will also be published in Fall 2021.
How can we be sure the oppressed do not become oppressors in their turn? How to put forward a call for a feminist position that does not turn the latter into yet another tool for oppression? It has become something of a commonplace to argue that, in order to fight the subjugation of women, it is necessary to adopt a broad understanding of the more general mechanisms of domination, namely one that unpacks the ways in which different forms of oppression intersect with one another. Yet, strikingly enough, in the contemporary literature engaging with intersectionality, there is hardly any mention of a particular feminist tradition of the past that has been claiming exactly the same point for a very long time: anarchist feminism, or as Chiara Bottici prefers to call it, “anarchafeminism.”
29.06.2021, 18:15 Uhr
Maria Pía Lara (Universidad Autonomo Metropolitana Iztapalapa, México)
Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary
Professor María Pía Lara teaches political philosophy and ethics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa (México). She is the author of Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere (1998), Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment (2007), The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization and Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary (2020).
"Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary" is a theorization about how we, as feminists, can decolonize the political space. Decolonizing the political space is not only a matter of changing the vocabulary. It is also the task of learning to represent ourselves as agents capable of redesigning all the spaces we inhabit. Envisioning the feminist imaginary will take us to work through the critical reconstruction of how patriarchy and capitalism have shaped our world: institutions like the law and education, but also religion and the public-private split. Feminism has begun to articulate new ways of imagining ourselves, with others, with nature and through relational agency.
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