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How does a shift from focusing on the 'autonomous and independent subject'
to a framework of shared vulnerability transform intellectual, legal, and activist
terrains? This interdisciplinary panel explores how our ideas of personhood, the
state, politics, organizing, religion, consciousness, arts, and ethics change when
vulnerability becomes the lens through which we examine them, focusing particularly on
relationships of interdependence and structural inequality. Panelists include Martha
Albertson Fineman, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Colin Dayan, and Ilaria Vanni. This discussion,
moderated by Elizabeth Castelli, took place at The Scholar and Feminist Conference 2012,
Vulnerability: The Human and the Humanities.
In this panel, young feminist activists discuss their
areas of interest, what they see as the major challenges for feminist
movements, how organizing today compares to that by previous
generations, intersections between feminism and other approaches to
social justice, and how to build coalitions...
Published 01/30/13
Sonia Pierre (1963-2011), mobilized communities in the
Dominican Republic to advocate for citizenship and human rights for
Dominicans of Haitian descent. As the director of Movimiento de Mujeres
Dominico-Haitiana (MUDHA), she used legal challenges in domestic and
international courts to defend...
Published 12/06/12