Securofeminism and the Saving of the Muslim Woman, by Prof. Lila Abu Lughod

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Date and Time : 2 November 2019, 11amAdd to Calendar 02/11/2019 11:00 02/11/2019 12:30 Asia/Kolkata Securofeminism and the saving of the Muslim Woman, by Prof. Lila Abu Lughod Must check for Details and on Event day before visiting :
https://www.delhievents.com/2019/10/talk-securofeminism-saving-muslim-woman-prof-lila-abu-lughod-jnu.html School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067
Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | SAA Map
Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' &  'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'

Event Description : School of Arts and Aesthetics and Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, SIS
Securofeminism and the saving of the Muslim Woman, a lecture by Prof. Lila Abu Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University

The talk will be chaired by Prof. Romila Thapar, Professor Emerita, JNU

Increasingly, democratic feminists have been troubled by some gender experts and women's rights advocates clamoring for inclusion in a new "soft" branch of the global security enterprise that goes under the trademark CVE (Countering Violent Extremism), or PVE (Preventing Violent Extremism). Critical feminsits are raising concerns about the advocacy by what I call "Securofeminists" for mainstreaming gender and installing women in leadership positions in the expanding field of counter-terrorism. Although most women's rights advocates bend over backwards not to name or specifically frame Muslims for violence, we need to ask how Governance Feminists (Feminists who work closely with institutions of international and state power, in Janet Halley's definition) can take care not to contribute to a dangerous framing of this community and religious group, erasing the agency of diverse women and the political histories and contexts of contemporary gender violence.

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