Abstract
This colloquium offers a transnational feminist and queer studies approach to examine the disjunctures and contestations of state-sponsored journalism and media concerning gendered violence, against a digital media landscape that is heterogenous and globally diverse. With examples from India, Turkey, Balkans and Palestine, we examine the political impact of these disruptions and ruptures, including making visible state practices of silencing of voices of victims and journalists. We examine the feminist and queer media spaces – across numerous geographies and locations –from which resistance to state narratives emerges. Our examples from four sites, with very different media histories, include the vigorous transnational debates and dissent around accounts of sexual violence in Israel, the question of genocide and ecocide in Gaza being raised by global south feminists, as well as challenges to the Indian and Turkish states’ justifying the violence on gendered bodies of minorities and refugees. To understand the impact of contemporary digital media, we also compare the differences and commonalities within and between 1990s-era media narratives of mass wartime rape in the Balkans and the contemporaneous state practices in the three regions mentioned above. The papers take as feminist/queer analytical tools the discussion of media spectacle and visibility, the kinds of non-state and state platforms covering gendered violence, the use of racial and gendered narratives and tropes within state media (photojournalism, documentary cinema, and television and newspapers, social media, streaming), and the debates concerning gendered state violence in the digital sphere that have energized transnational dissent.
Presenters
Inderpal GrewalProfessor Emeritus, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, United States Evren Savci
Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, United States Sherene Razack
Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies, UCLA, California, United States Minoo Moallem
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Media Studies, UC Berkeley, California, United States Rana Jaleel
Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies and Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis, United States
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KEYWORDS
GENDER, FEMINIST, QUEER, STATE, SEXUAL, VIOLENCE
