This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances and will be rescheduled for a later date.
This seminar explores the development of religious fundamentalisms and fascist governments in the US, Europe and Africa and the role of queer feminist transnational solidarity in countering state and non state actors,
Drawing on three case studies in Africa, the seminar will offer some reflections on how movements are working to resist closing civic space and build collective protection and security approaches to sustain movements.
Dr. Awino Okech's teaching and research interests lies in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies. In addition, Dr Okech sees the processes through which knowledge production occurs as critical to transforming and re-thinking academic practice today. Therefore the politics of knowledge production, research and research(ing) form a central part for her teaching and researching focus. Prior to her appointment at the Centre for Gender Studies, she contributed to knowledge production and transfer through an adjunct teaching position with the African Leadership Centre at Kings College London where she co-convened the Gender Leadership and Society module as part of the MSc in Security, Leadership and Society.
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