CommArts Seminar | In The Name of Women's Rights - The Rise of Femonationalism

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Date:

Friday, 12 June 2015 - Friday, 12 June 2015

Time:

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Room:

Room 601, Level 6

UQ Location:

Michie Building (St Lucia)

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Full Description:: My aim in this presentation is to propose a political-economic theoretical frame for reading the contemporary mobilizations of the idea of 'gender equality' in debates on immigrants' and above all Muslims' integration, particularly in Europe. More specifically, I focus on the ways in which very different political actors such as right-wing nationalists, feminist intellectual and femocrats (or state feminists) as well as neo-liberal governments have all resorted to the theme of women's rights to stigmatise Muslim migrants and have implemented specific policies with this aim.

Dr Sara Farris holds degrees from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza”. Sara previously taught sociology at the University of Amsterdam, University of Brunel and King’s College. She has also been a member scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, in Princeton (2012/2013), Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Cluster of Excellence in Konstanz (2011) and at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (2009-2010).