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Up-Rising / انتِ ـ فاضة: Iraq and the Feminist Imagination

What do uprisings tell us about the social world? How do they teach us to theorize and analyze the contemporary conjuncture? Uprisings, in their various and contradictory forms, reveal the deployment, structure and functioning of social, political, economic and epistemic violence(s). Placing Iraq and Iraqis at the center of knowledge production and theorization, I will reflect on the various ways in which the Iraqi uprising and Iraqi activists enrich and challenge the sociological and feminist imagination on issues of justice, dignity, belonging and beyond.

Zahra Ali is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers Univer-sity Newark. Her research explores dyna-mics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s), the Middle East and contexts of war and conflicts with a focus on contem-porary Iraq. Ali engages with transna-tional and (post/de)colonial feminisms and epistemologies. Ali is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation (Cam-bridge University Press, 2018), she also co-edited the journal volume Pluriversa-lisme Décolonial with Sonia Dayan-Herzb-run (Kimé, 2017) and edited Féminismes Islamiques (La Fabrique editions, 2012), translated from French into German, Turkish and Spanish.










When: Tue., Nov. 10, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Where: The Cooper Union
7 E. 7th St. | 41 Cooper Sq.
212-353-4100
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What do uprisings tell us about the social world? How do they teach us to theorize and analyze the contemporary conjuncture? Uprisings, in their various and contradictory forms, reveal the deployment, structure and functioning of social, political, economic and epistemic violence(s). Placing Iraq and Iraqis at the center of knowledge production and theorization, I will reflect on the various ways in which the Iraqi uprising and Iraqi activists enrich and challenge the sociological and feminist imagination on issues of justice, dignity, belonging and beyond.

Zahra Ali is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers Univer-sity Newark. Her research explores dyna-mics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s), the Middle East and contexts of war and conflicts with a focus on contem-porary Iraq. Ali engages with transna-tional and (post/de)colonial feminisms and epistemologies. Ali is the author of Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation (Cam-bridge University Press, 2018), she also co-edited the journal volume Pluriversa-lisme Décolonial with Sonia Dayan-Herzb-run (Kimé, 2017) and edited Féminismes Islamiques (La Fabrique editions, 2012), translated from French into German, Turkish and Spanish.
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