CALL FOR PAPERS :

Brave New World: The Gendered Political Economy of Terrorism and Fundamentalism. Abstracts of proposed papers should be about 500 words and should reach by 5th of December 2011. Draft papers should be submitted by 15th February 2012.

CALL FOR PAPERS

            St Stephen's College, the Kartini Network Asia (KAN) and SANGAT are jointly organizing a two-day International Conference titled Brave New World: The Gendered Political Economy of Terrorism and Fundamentalism. The conference will be held in Delhi, India between 12 - 17 March 2012 (the precise will dates will be notified shortly). As the title indicates, the conference aims to explore through the lens of gender, the political-economic bases of the relationship between the phenomena commonly referred to as ‘terrorism’ and fundamentalisms of various kinds. The conference will focus on a critical examination of the phenomena noted above with the idea to identify and think through some of the links between them. How may we understand the complex and intricate links between terrorism, types of fundamentalism and the Neoliberal economic regime/Neoliberalism. How do these draw on and impact dominant regimes of gender and sexuality? How are the meanings of these phenomena manufactured, and challenged? Over the two days of the conference, we hope to cover this terrain extensively – in terms of the range of issues and dimension of these multiple relations – and intensively – in terms of specific levels, regions and/or cases which might be examined in this light. While some possible themes/panels are listed below, paper proposals are of course free to explore areas and issues outside of the ones listed below:

1.                  Framing Terrorism, Fundamentalism, Gender, Sexuality (TFGS)

2.                  The (International) Political Economy of TFGS

3.                  Nationalism and TFGS

4.                  Conflict, conflict resolution, human security, and human development.

5.                  Imagining TFGS: Cinema, Media Literary and other Representations of TFGS

6.                  Gendered violence and violent gendering in TFGS/ the many violences of TFGS

7.                  Honor, shame, shamelessness and TFGS

8.                  Globalization/trans-nationalization and TFGS

9.                  Economies of desire and TFGS

10.              Social, symbolic and corporeal boundaries in TFGS

11.              Everyday practices that shape TFGS

12.              Discourses of ‘development’/ ‘underdevelopment’ and TFGS

13.              Corporate investments in/promotion of TFGS

14.              State policies and the shaping of TFGS

15.              TFGS reshaping private and public

16.              Feminist responses to TFGS

Abstracts of proposed papers should be about 500 words and should reach by 5^th of December 2011. Draft papers should be submitted by 15^th February 2012.

Abstracts and queries should be addressed to Karen Gabriel at tfgsconf.delhi@yahoo.in and to karengabriel@ststephens.edu