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

This panel showcases decolonial feminist research from Canadian or North American junior and senior scholars. The papers will present recent works that are intersectional and challenge settler colonialism, white supremacy and reductive understanding of human history, movements, environment and the sociopolitical world in general. They will engage with how feminist theories, methods, analyses or praxes can or have challenged the current state of gendered racisms, fundamentalisms, nationalisms, neoliberal capitalism, exploitation of the environment, precaritizing of peoples, or violence and fears brought by the crisis in western hegemony as well as new tactics of suppression, surveillance and various forms of oppressions. While focused in Canada and North America, the papers will help build bridges with feminist works in the Global South and with minorities constructed through gender and sexual categories, hierarchies of race, caste, ability, nationality, class and religion, and enforced mobilities or immobilities. They may also focus on the relationalities, connections and alternative feminist visions that are created through forces of domination as well as resistance.