Intersectionality, Inequality and Bordering

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Date
Time
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
Kamran Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT)

About this event

Nira Yuval–Davis, Professor and Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East London

In this paper Professor Yuval-Davis be looking on the ways intersectionality analytical perspective can help us to understand social inequlities as well as its limitations. I shall then try and forward the analysis by linking intersectional inequalities to different kinds of borderings - of states, of economic zones, of different political projects of belonging and of informal/familial networks of support.

Nira Yuval-Davis is the Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network of Women In Militarized Conflict Zones. She has been a member of the Sociology panel of the UK 2008 RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) and is currently on the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) Sociology panel. She has acted as a consultant to various NGOs and Human Rights organizations such as the UNDP, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Amnesty International, AWID and the international Investigative Women’s Delegation ‘Justice in the Gujarat’. She is an editor of the book series The Politics of Intersectionality of Palgrave MacMilan, New York.
In her recent major ESRC research project she used participatory theatre techniques as a research methodology working with refugees in East London. Currently she is a partner in a major EU research project on ‘Borderscapes’, leading an international team which is examining everyday bordering in metropolitan cities and different European border zones from an intersectional situated gaze perspective.

Nira Yuval-Davis has written extensively on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and gender relations in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her written and edited books are Woman-Nation-State, 1989, Racialized Boundaries, 1992, Unsettling Settler Societies, 1995, Gender and Nation, 1997, Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms, 2004, The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations, 2011. Her works were translated to more than ten languages.

Organiser: Dr Gina Heathcote

Contact email: gh21@soas.ac.uk

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