Feminist Imaginaries of Social Justice Otherwise

Monday, 7 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE002 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC32 Women, Gender and Society (host committee)

Language: English

Social Justice has become a ubiquitous antidote to address the intersecting socio-economic, health, and ecological crises. Yet, it remains ambiguous and means many different things in myriad disciplines.How do feminists define social justice. What are the imaginaries they draw upon from different philosophical, religious, and theoretical traditions across the global North and South to define a framework for social justice for a better world otherwise. This session invites papers that address this question from different feminist histories to understand how these might enable us to have a common language to address these intersecting crises.
Session Organizer:
Manisha DESAI, West Hartford, USA
Oral Presentations
From Carcerality to Impunity: Rethinking State Violence As Gendered Governance in India and Mexico.
Chaitanya LAKKIMSETTI, Texas A&M University, USA; Paulina GARCÍA-DEL MORAL, University of Guelph, Canada
The Unseen Architects: Black Women and the Building of American Democracy
Gail GARFIELD, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, USA
Feminist Hope(lessness) in Apocalyptic Times
Hansalbin SÄLTENBERG, Södertörn University, Sweden; Silvia DIAZ DIAZ, Spain