5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

The duplicity of powerful Western states towards the Gaza genocide has exposed the discursive and material cracks in the Eurocentric ‘Rules-Based Order” rooted in colonial and imperial violence. This calls for critical decolonial efforts to reimagine new conceptualizations of the ‘human’, ‘the global’ and ‘the universally just.” This panel brings together researchers who engage in anti-imperial and decolonial feminist understanding of transnational sociopolitical and cultural crises, especially the rise of extremist rightwing nationalisms across the world and the re-emergence of Cold War antagonisms in Euro-American societies, the rescinding of liberal rights and freedoms, rising anti-immigrant sentiments, and blatant Sinophobia and Islamophobia. We examine the possibilities (and limitations) of decolonial and anti-oppressive analyses and actions for building transnational feminist and antiracist solidarities that could lead to alternative ways of knowing and being, and naming the human and social justice outside the disciplinary prescriptions of western social sciences, humanities and law.

The panelists are:

Hadeel Abu Hussein, Research Fellow, Erasmus University, Why is the Struggle of Women in East Jerusalem, Palestine, a Feminist and Anti-Colonial issue?

Fahad Ahmad, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Discipline and Exclusion: Security and Gender under Counter-radicalization

Amina Jamal, Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Feminist Politics for a Multipolar World? A speculative paper from a transnational feminist perspective.

Jane Ku, Associate Professor, University of Windsor,Violence and the Crisis in American Imperial Order: Decolonial and Anti-Imperial Feminist Literacy in Developing an Unrespectable Feminism

Vasanthi Venkatesh, Associate Professor, University of Windsor, Praxis of Refusal and Fugitivity as Counter-Pedagogy