'I am still hopeful' an interview to Gloria Wekker by Rosalba Icaza (original) (raw)
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Frame: Journal of Literary Studies 27.2, 2014
The article provides an overview of theorizing on race and racism within Dutch feminist scholarship since the 1980s. In analyzing the scholarship, close attention is paid to the role scholarship from the United States has played in the development of intersectional theorizing in the Netherlands. In line with professor Gloria Wekker's characterization, I show how the transatlantic exchange of ideas in women's and gender studies has been a fertile 'cross-pollination'. Dutch scholars have been inspired by the work of US scholars of color, but have also adapted and translated those concepts to address the specificities of Dutch racism.
DiGeSt, 2018
This contribution is an interview with social and cultural anthropologist of Surinamese-Dutch background prof. dr. emerita Gloria Wekker. It discusses the debate that ensued in the Netherlands after the publication of her book White Innocence (2016), now translated in Dutch as Witte onschuld (2017). The interview covers the reception of the book, Wekker’s future work, and her legacy for the academic as well as public debates about gender and race. It goes into methodological questions concerning intersectional analysis and the notion of race as a social construct.
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis. Doing Gender in the Netherlands.
2014
Everyday Feminist Research Praxis: Doing Gender in The Netherlands offers a selection of previously unpublished work presented during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) conferences. Reflecting the wide spectrum of interdisciplinary gender studies, this volume is organised into four sections along four conceptual knots. These thematic entry-points are space/time, affectivity, public/private, and technological mediation. The central emphasis of this volume is twofold: first, the everyday is approached as a concretely grounded site of micro-political power struggles. Second, the contributors make explicit connections between theory and their everyday feminist research practices. They provide a reflexive account of their research, and put into words what drives them. The relation between theory and practice has been a key concern of feminist research in recent decades. The two domains are here not considered as oppositional, but rather contributors chart their interconnections and entanglements. The authors cover a wide topical area that includes, amongst others, digital representations of women movements; European homonationalism; fashion modelling and labour; sexual identities; child-birthing discourses; digital documentaries; fan fiction; and the post-human. As a whole, the interventions show how feminist research praxis remains crucial in critically disentangling naturalized routines of daily life, which in turn enables the scrutiny of, for example, the arbitrariness of entrenched power relations and the revealing of contradictory and layered, personal and collective, everyday trajectories. Everyday feminist research praxis, thus, energises possibilities for new forms of recognition, representation and redistribution of power. HARDBACK ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6011-6 ISBN-10: 1-4438-6011-5 Date of Publication: 01/08/2014 MORE INFORMATION: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/everyday-feminist-research-praxis SAMPLE CHAPTER: INTRODUCTION AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN PDF FORMAT: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61775 Cambridge Scholars Press
Introduction EVERYDAY FEMINIST RESEARCH PRAXIS. Doing Gender in the Netherlands
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EVERYDAY FEMINIST RESEARCH PRAXIS. Doing Gender in the Netherlands Everyday Feminist Research Praxis: Doing Gender in The Netherlands offers a selection of previously unpublished work presented during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) conferences. Reflecting the wide spectrum of interdisciplinary gender studies, this volume is organised into four sections along four conceptual knots. These thematic entry-points are space/time, affectivity, public/private, and technological mediation. The central emphasis of this volume is twofold: first, the everyday is approached as a concretely grounded site of micro-political power struggles. Second, the contributors make explicit connections between theory and their everyday feminist research practices. They provide a reflexive account of their research, and put into words what drives them. The relation between theory and practice has been a key concern of feminist research in recent decades. The two domains are here not considered as oppositional, but rather contributors chart their interconnections and entanglements. The authors cover a wide topical area that includes, amongst others, digital representations of women movements; European homonationalism; fashion modelling and labour; sexual identities; child-birthing discourses; digital documentaries; fan fiction; and the post-human. As a whole, the interventions show how feminist research praxis remains crucial in critically disentangling naturalized routines of daily life, which in turn enables the scrutiny of, for example, the arbitrariness of entrenched power relations and the revealing of contradictory and layered, personal and collective, everyday trajectories. Everyday feminist research praxis, thus, energises possibilities for new forms of recognition, representation and redistribution of power. HARDBACK ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6011-6 ISBN-10: 1-4438-6011-5 Date of Publication: 01/08/2014 MORE INFORMATION: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/everyday-feminist-research-praxis SAMPLE CHAPTER: INTRODUCTION AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN PDF FORMAT: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61775
As one of the first women of colour engaged in Dutch academia, professor Philomena Essed has first-hand experience with the impact of gendered, racialised, and classed processes of exclusion in the academy. Long before the concept of intersectionality became a buzzword in Gender Studies, these experiences have become the basis for her elaborate research on the impact of gender and ‘race’ in black women’s lives, in- and outside the academy. (...) Throughout her work, Philomena Essed has relentlessly pointed out the ‘sore spots’ in the Netherlands, and Western-European societies more broadly, by describing how racism, sexism, and classism permeate policies and institutions taken to be ‘neutral ’. Her influential first book 'Alledaags racisme' (Everyday racism) (1984) demonstrated how racism is about more than explicit ideologies and oppressive structures – it manifests itself in implicit statements and practices that function as small and big violations of black women’s rights and dignity. Since then, she has extensively published on the concepts of (everyday) racism and its relation to other processes of discrimination, like sexism and classism; she has critically analysed diversity and immigration policies; and formulated epistemological critiques on scholarship concerning gender, migration, and citizenship. In this conversation, we discuss how Philomena’s trajectory started from her own specific standpoint and the experience of being ‘different’.
Politeia, 2018
#FeesMustFall was a movement whose maxim was 'this revolution will be intersectional, or it will be bullshit.' This paper is a self reflection of my participation as a so called Radical Black Intersectional Feminist of #FeesMustFall, located at Stellenbosch University. It is also an attempt to bear witness to the double erasures taking place in the mainstream patriarchal narratives of #FeesMustFall. It bears witness to the fact that queer black womxn were the backbone of the movement and that Stellenbosch University was affected by #FeesMustFall. These constitute the double erasures taking place in terms of what is and can be known about #FeesMustFall. The reflection contained herein serves as a much-needed addition to the body of knowledge produced about #FeesMustFall.
From Happy to Critical Diversity: Intersectionality as a Paradigm for Gender and Diversity Research
2015
In our contribution to the round table of this newly launched journal we aim to present the contours of what we see as the way forward for education and research in 'diversity and gender' in our own context of working at a Flemish university (Ghent University) today. According to good old key tenets of feminist epistemology, we must mention that this reflection is a "situated" one and therefore rooted in our own structural location, positioning, professional genealogy, past and recent experiences and future hopes and envisionings in this particular field.