Working through Transformative Agendas: Lessons from Feminist and Intersectional Scholars across the Global South and North

While feminist and intersectional scholars work through transformative social justice agendas, they do so across diverse, but also, increasingly challenging political, economic, social, and historical contexts. Creating spaces for dialogue and mutual learning can strengthen collective insights, capacities and strategies for change.

We promote through this panel therefore, critical dialogue between feminist and intersectional scholars across the Global South and north, who are working through transformative agendas. We will encourage panellists to explore four core areas, namely, (i) evidence, practices and tools that promote gender-transformative and intersectional programming (ii) experiences and tensions related to contextuality and/or volatility, (ii) sustaining collaborative advocacy, research and policy influence, (iv) practical recommendations for inclusive and sustainable social change.

We expect that the session will allow scholars across these regions to position not just feminism or intersectionality in practice, but to speak through the possibilities, experiences, tensions of advancing transformative agendas. Ultimately, this session seeks to situate the theory-praxis-change nexus inherent within transformative processes, but with specific interrogations of the ebbs and flows within global intellectual and political undertakings. This engagement will serve as a platform for exchange, collaboration and direction for transformative praxis.

The session will include 4-5, 15-20-minute oral presentations. We especially encourage submissions around the following topics:

Feminist and Intersectional Scholarship in Practice
Building partnerships and collective action
Critical dialogue, interdisciplinary and transnational fusions
Cross-regional movements and learnings
New directions, dialogue, and points of departure