The Feminist South Asia Pre-Conference at Madison 2012 foregrounds Location as a spatial and temporal category to frame an interdisciplinary discussion.
We invite papers that outline the location of time in the feminist studies of gender in South Asia. Time has been significant to the historian as it remains to the scholar of music, dance, theater and performance. We call for probing analyses of the ways in which multiple conceptions of time have played a role in the organization of work, politics, the construction of genealogies, narratives and performances. Have age and generation been sufficiently attended to in the ways in which scholars study South Asian feminisms? What has changed between the study of women and feminism in the 1950s and in the present?
We also invite papers that focus on locations and dislocations around questions of space, place and cultures in the study of gender and women in South Asia. Space grounds the materiality of daily lives, as property and its distribution, in marked and unmarked traffics across borders and boundaries. It also connects legacies of feminist methodologies around the politics of location and identity, of speaking “from” or speaking “nearby.” We invite papers that engage space as bases of identities and politics dynamically: What have specific locations enabled and fractured for feminist ethnographers and geographers? How does gender inflect processes of migration? How do we trace the linkages between gendered imperatives of nation-states and trans-national entities, including social movements and NGOs?
Please submit your 100 –word abstracts to both of the organizers by April 30, 2012.
Srimati Basu, University of Kentucky, sbasu@kentucky.edu
Indrani Chatterjee, Rutgers University, NJ, ichatterjee23@gmail.com.