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Echoes of Women's Resistance in Africa: A Conversation with Ruth Murambadoro

Interview by Elaine Coburn Dr. Ruth Murambadaro, your work is concerned with “echoes of resistance” among women in Zimbabwe, women who are not always able to express themselves directly in the ongoing context of patriarchal authoritarianism. What does the concept of echoes of resistance evoke for you, in Zimbabwe today, and how does this concept […]

Critical Femininities

Critical Femininities is an emerging field of study that seeks to examine femininity unhinged from “woman” (Dahl, 2012). In addition to elucidating and theorizing feminine and femme identities, Critical Femininities scholars follow traditions in non-academic femme writing and feminist and queer scholarship to understand femininity as subversive (Hoskin & Taylor, 2019), understand femme-ininity as a […]

Racial Injustice and the Limits of Reparative Policies: A Conversation with Carmela Murdocca

Interview by Serena Aprile Your work focuses on the intersections of racialization and criminalization, especially for Black and Indigenous people in social and legal politics in Canada. What inspired you to choose this difficult but important theme as the focus for your research? I am interested in debates about the possibilities and limits of redress […]

Making 'Girl-and-Women-Friendly Cities': A Conversation with Fazileh Davdar-Khani

Interview by Elaine Coburn Interview with Fazileh Dadvar-Khani, Professor of Rural and Gender Geography at the University of Tehran, Iran, and Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Canada. Professor Davdar-Khani writes here from the Secretariat for the academic platform at the Urban Economy Forum and from the Secretariat for the Canada […]