Event Date: March 9, 2022 - 11:00am to 1:00pm EST
Location: online

Presented by CIPS and the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies

Cross-border Solidarities in Twenty-First Century Contexts: Feminist Perspectives and Activist Practices (edited by Janet M. Conway, Pascale Dufour and Dominique Masson)

This collection considers how political solidarities are being understood and constructed in a variety of cross-border struggles and for what ends under twenty-first century conditions. In studies grounded in different world regions at a variety of scales, authors address the following issues: how the Cold War divide and its aftermath have structured contemporary asymmetries in European LGBT movements and in ‘global’ feminisms; how ‘colonial difference’ in Latin America confronts feminist and social justice movements with problems of translation across worlds; how travelling concepts essential to constructing solidarities across distance and difference traverse linguistic divides and attendant power imbalances in world cities and transnational networks; how rurality as a form of colonial difference challenges established categories of intersectional feminism. Feminist politics of power and difference, and attention to gendered agency, are at the centre of this inquiry into the possibility of twenty-first century solidarities across borders.

After an introduction to the book, presenters will briefly offer five-minute snapshots of their chapters. Q&As will be woven in throughout.

The book can be accessed via the University of Ottawa library here.

Order of presentations:

Introduction.
Presenter: Janet Conway, Brock University

Studying “Global Feminism” as a Transnational Assemblage.  Geopolitics of Women’s Rights in the (Post)Cold War (1975-1995).
Presenter: Ioana Cîrstocea, CNRS & CESSP, Paris

European Solidarities across the East/West Divide : Power and Difference in Lesbian and Gay Transnational Cooperation with Poland in the mid-2000s.
Presenter: Agnès Chetaille, Université libre de Bruxelles

Solidarity-Building as Praxis: Anti-Extractivism and the World March of Women in the Macro-Norte Region of Peru.
Presenter: Dominique Masson, University of Ottawa

Allowing Rural Difference to Make a Difference: the Brazilian Marcha das Margaridas
Presenters: Renata Motta & Marco Antonio Teixeira, Freie Universität Berlin

The Cosmopolitical Challenge of Building Border-Crossing Feminist Solidarities.
Presenter: Johanna Leinius, University of Kassel

Power, Translation and Localized Transnational Feminism.
Presenter: Geneviève Pagé, Université du Québec à Montréal

(Mis)translations in Translocal Solidarity-Building and the Need for Controlled Equivocation: Cuerpo-Territorio in the World March of Women.
Presenter: Nathalie Lebon, Gettysburg College, USA

Afterword.
Presenter: Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut

Editor bios:

Janet Conway is Full Professor of Sociology at Brock University and former Canada Research Chair in Social Justice. She held the Nancy Rowell Jackman Chair in Women’s Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University 2019-2021. She is author of more than 50 scholarly works including Edges of Global Justice: The World Social Forum and its ‘Others’ (2013). With Nathalie Lebon, she is editor of Latin American Perspectives 48, Popular Feminisms: Pasts, Presents and Futures.

Pascale Dufour is Full Professor at the University of Montreal, Political Science Department. She directs the research team on Democracy and Political Action (www.capedmontreal.com). She has published « Pour une analyse comparée de la transnationalisation des solidarités. La Marche mondiale des femmes comme « objet » transnational complexe », Revue internationale de politique comparée, 23, 2, 2016 : 145-175 as well as several books and articles on the World March of Women.

Dominique Masson is Full Professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies of the University of Ottawa. She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC-funded research project on solidarity-building in the World March of Women. With Pascale Dufour and Dominique Caouette, she co-directed the edited volume Solidarities beyond Borders. Transnationalizing Women’s Movements (2010). Since 2017, she has published on the construction of solidarities around food sovereignty in the World March of Women.