From February to March 2016, PhD student Mary Austin, was in Indonesia researching links between the anti-Suharto student movement, feminist NGOs and trade unions in the movement for an Indonesian domestic workers’ law. She was greatly assisted by a Language Acquisition grant of £640 from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences which helped her improve her interviewing and transcription/translating skills.
In February 2016, PhD student Paniz Musawi Natanzi, spoke at the Ab-Anbar Art Gallery in Tehran, Iran, on The Gendering Power of Disney from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective: Deconstructing Gender Roles and Relations from Snow White to Robin Hood. Find the event on Facebook here – https://www.facebook.com/events/914048845330900/
CGS students, including MA students Niharika Pandit, Nandita Dutta, and Aapurv Jain, participated in a demonstration outside the Indian high commission in London. The protest was in solidarity with protestors in Indian universities. #STANDWITHJNU
PhD Candidate, Akanksha Mehta, along with several other PhD students in the UK formulated a solidarity statement to stand with students, faculty, and protestors at India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Several PhD students, faculty members, and MA students signed the petition. The petition can be found at Kafila #StandWithJNU: Solidarity Statement by Academics in the UK This is a statement by over three hundred and fifty academics based in the UK. We,
CGS PhD Student, Kim Zinngrebe reflects on the silence on sexual violence among Palestinian feminists in Israel in Feminist Review‘s latest issue (Issue 112 – a themed issue on violence) http://www.palgrave-journals.com/…/v112/n1/pdf/fr201558a.pdf
Former CGS PhD student, Dr Zahra Ali reviews Ayesha Chaudhry’s book – domestic violence and the Islamic tradition: ethics, law and the Muslim discourse on gender – for Feminist Review‘s latest issue (Issue 112- a themed issue on violence) http://www.palgrave-journals.com/fr/journal/v112/n1/pdf/fr201560a.pdf
PhD candidate Akanksha Mehta wrote an article titled, The aesthetics of “everyday” violence: narratives of violence and Hindu right-wing women, for a special issue of Critical Studies of Terrorism on Everyday Violence. Access it here. Abstract “Right-wing” movements see significant participation by women who espouse their exclusionary and violent politics while at the same time often contest their patriarchal spaces. Women also serve as discursive and symbolic markers that regularly form the basis of