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SUMMARY:International Women's Day Panel:  New Research on Gender in the Gl
 obal South - Dr Victoria Oluwamayowa Gbadegesin\, Dr Garima Jaju\, Dr Sher
 in Basheer Saheera
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DESCRIPTION:Celebrate International Women's Day with a panel discussion of
  new research on gender in the Global South featuring the following speake
 rs: \n\n*Dr Victoria Oluwamayowa Gbadegesin\, 'Female representation and g
 ender ideologies in Earth Women:  A multimodal approach to Nigerian ecocin
 ema'* \n\n* *Abstract:* Academic engagements with ecocinema typically focu
 s on the environmental\, economic and social effects of climate change on 
 human lives. However\, the gendered dimension\, which portrays not only th
 e differentiated impact of climate change on gender but also how climate c
 hange framing affects gender agency and obfuscates power structures underl
 ying climate knowledge\, has not been adequately explored\, especially in 
 Nigerian ecocinema studies. In this study\, I investigate female represent
 ations and gender ideologies in Earth Women\, a Nigerian environment and c
 limate change documentary. Using the theoretical framework of Multimodal C
 ritical Discourse Analysis\, I examine and reveal how communicative resour
 ces are deployed to conceptualise and communicate female gender relationsh
 ip with the environment. In affirming a link between female agency and nat
 ure as depicted in the filmic production\, I submit that while a viable an
 d healthy environment empowers the female gender\, a polluted environment 
 predisposes them to economic disempowerment\, health hazards and sometimes
  untimely death. These realities exacerbate the existing gender inequality
  in Nigerian communities\, and inhibit the government’s attempts at ecol
 ogical management.\n* *Speaker bio:* Dr Gbadegesin is a Senior Lecturer in
  the Department of English and Literary Studies at Federal University Oye-
 Ekiti\, Nigeria. Her research interests include exploring multimodality in
  media and cultural discourse and analysing gender in different domains of
  language use.  She is a Fellow of the African Humanities Program under th
 e American Council of Learned Societies and\, in Lent 2024\,  a Wolfson Co
 llege Visiting Fellow and 2024 CRASSH Scholar from the Global South.\n\n\n
 *Dr Garima Jaju\, 'Isha's wait: Money\, love and kinship amidst domestic r
 uins in India'*\n\n* *Abstract:* Isha waits in her low-income parent’s h
 ome for her estranged husband\, charged for dowry and domestic violence\, 
 to pay her the legally mandated ‘maintenance money’. I listen to her a
 s she talks about pyaar\, or love\, and domestic violence as arising from 
 the absence of its ehsaas\, or feeling/realization\, by the abusive husban
 d. The awaited money is infused with the hopeful imagination that it will 
 generate both pyaar and its ehsaas. I argue that money becomes a substance
  of kinship that is assigned a disciplining role in engendering the ethica
 l transformation of a ‘bad’ husband to create ‘good’ kinship. Expl
 oring how the tenuous promise of money sustains imaginations of kinship fu
 tures\, I outline how centrally money shapes the experience of domestic vi
 olence and the dealing of its aftermath.\n* *Speaker bio:*  Dr. Garima Jaj
 u is a Smuts Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the Centre of South Asian S
 tudies and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. She is an economic
  anthropologist working on work and labor\, studying its intersection with
  politics\, ethics\, and love. She holds a DPhil and MPhil from Oxford Uni
 versity and a BA from Delhi University.\n\n\n*Dr Sherin Basheer Saheera\, 
 'Gender\, Islam and the Muslim Question in India'*\n\n* *Abstract:* The Mu
 slim minority of India emerged as a specific constitutional as well as soc
 ial category in the context of the partition of India. However\, in constr
 ucting this socially marginalised category and establishing its historicit
 y\, gender discourse has been widely employed. In recent times the Islamop
 hobic tendencies in the western context have also contributed to this proc
 ess\, and the feminist and left approaches to gender in Islam have not qui
 te disengaged from this engendering. Based on the arguments in my book _Ge
 ndering Minorities: Muslim Women and the Politics of Modernity_ ( 2021)\, 
 I intend to discuss the framing of Muslim women’s agency in contemporary
  India.\n* *Speaker bio:* Dr Sherin Basheer Saheera is Associate Professor
 \, at the Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies\, The Eng
 lish and Foreign Languages University\, Hyderabad\, India.  She is current
 ly a Wolfson College Visiting Fellow and the 2024 Charles Wallace India Tr
 ust Fellow at CRASSH. Her academic interests include Secularism and Religi
 on in India\, Gender Studies\, Comparative Studies\, Regional Cinema\, Con
 temporary Art and Urban Studies. Her PhD dissertation on ‘Islam and Wome
 n in Kerala\,’ is an attempt to study the political presence of Muslim w
 omen in South India through a post-secular lens.   In addition to _Genderi
 ng Minorities: Muslim Women and the Politics of Modernity_ (Orient Blacksw
 an: 2021)\, she is also the author of _Feminism\, Desheeyatha\, Muthalaq: 
 Prathi Vyavahaarangalude Raashtreeyam_ (Feminism\, Nationalism and Triple 
 Talaq: The Politics of Counter Discourses) 2018\, in Malayalam.  Her curre
 nt research project\,  ‘Reconciling Faith\, Modernity and Nation: A Stud
 y of Early Muslim Women’s Journals from South India’\, analyses early 
 20th-century women’s journals in Kerala\, where a large number of writer
 s and readership consisted of Muslim men and women. Building on the work o
 f scholars like Saba Mahmood on the Middle East and Egypt\, this study of 
 early twentieth century Muslim Women’s journals in Malayalam allows us t
 o understand ‘Muslim woman’ as a political subject at the intersection
  of colonialism\, minority status\, faith and gender.\n \n*Details*\nThis 
 event is open to all\, free to attend and there is no need to book.\n\n*Ac
 cess*\nThis event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of
  the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is
  an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College\, Cambridge\, UK\, CB3 9BB
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