Gendering the politics of alienation : Séminaire de recherche

Le GERMAC (CECRI & DVLP c/o ISPOLE & IACCHOS) dans le cadre de l'Action de Recherche Concertée ARC-SERTIS (Resistance to International Injunctions and Prescriptions in Africa & the Middle East),
en collaboration avec le LaRHis et le GREG vous propose un séminaire de recherche :

“Gendering the politics of alienation: Arab revolution and women’s sentiments of loss and despair” avec le Prof. Dr Afaf Jabiri, University of East London, Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)

From the start of the Arab revolutions in late 2010, a connection between the law, state, political economy, gender norms and orientalist ideology has formed the foundation of women’s systematic exclusion from politics. By unmasking processes in Egypt that have created the ideological and material conditions of externalising women’s revolutionary acts, estranging their political involvement, and exposing them to various forms of violence, this article offers a gendered political reading of the concept of alienation. The article suggests that gender-normative ideology’s characterisation of women’s images, roles and acts during and after revolutions, corresponds to the most profound form of alienation. The article identifies the externalisation and subjugation of women, and objectification of their revolutionary acts as modes of alienation. Moreover, it proposes that the implementing of these modes of alienation are necessary for creating conditions that allow for the reconfiguration of power dynamics that restore the authoritarian power of the state. This discussion suggests that the sphere of politics not only relates to political activism and conflict between revolutions and counter-revolutions, but that it is also a battlefield for the (re)production of gender normative knowledge.