Transnational Feminist Solidarity as Praxis: Angela Davis in Egypt
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
12:00 pm – 1:10 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event; Other
12 PM New York l 6 PM Vienna
The Transnational Feminism, Solidarity, and Social Justice lecture series continues with Sara Salem, who will focus a trip Angela Davis made to Egypt in the early 1980s to explore questions of transnational feminist solidarity and feminist difference. The emphasis on Marxism and feminism enabled Egyptian feminists to forge solidarity with women across the globe, including Angela Davis, who located gender oppression within the same structures—namely, capitalism and imperialism. Salem will demonstrate how the encounters Davis had with feminists during this trip reveal much about the workings of transnational feminism as praxis, as well as the possibilities of feminist solidarity that sees difference as productive rather than divisive.
Sara Salem is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and global histories of anticolonialism. Her recently published book with Cambridge University Press is entitled Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony (2020).
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