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SUMMARY:Negotiating Space on the Right:  Everyday Politics of Israeli Zion
 ist Settler Women in the Southern West Bank\, Palestine - Dr. Akanksha Meh
 ta (Sussex)
DTSTART:20171026T161500Z
DTEND:20171026T180000Z
UID:TALK93895@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoglu
DESCRIPTION:Right-wing movements that have mobilize women have had very un
 easy encounters with feminism and feminist politics. Focusing mainly on th
 emes of motherhood and the familial\, feminist scholars often view the inc
 reasing participation of women in the right-wing as a 'problem' that needs
  to be 'countered\,' thereby silencing the multiplicity of narratives\, ro
 les\, and politics that encapsulate the everyday experiences of right-wing
  women. Moreover\, dominant theorizations of right-wing women either depic
 t them as ‘subjects/victims/pawns’ of right-wing men that live in ‘f
 alse consciousness’ or as beings with a ‘quasi/partial/limited’ agen
 cy\; ignoring sites of complexities\, contradictions\, subversions\, and r
 esistance among right-wing women. In this paper\, drawing on ethnographic 
 research conducted with right-wing women in the Zionist Settler movement i
 n Palestine-Israel in 2014\, I present narratives that examine the interse
 ctions of settler women’s everyday politics and space. I argue that thro
 ugh a politics of the everyday\, Zionist settler women construct\, transfo
 rm\, and negotiate with space and spatialities. These negotiations on the 
 right not only further their political violence and settler colonialism bu
 t also become means to bargain with patriarchal communities/homes\, male-f
 ormulated ideologies and discourses\, and male-dominated right-wing projec
 ts and spaces. These spatial negotiations replicate and affirm as well as 
 subvert and challenge patriarchal structures and power hierarchies\, troub
 ling the binaries of home/world\, private/public\, personal/political\, an
 d victim/agent.
LOCATION:Thomas Gray Room\, Pembroke College
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