IGS Seminar: Imagining a Postneoliberal Future: The Queer (Im)possibilities of Ecuador’s Citizen Revolution

Date: 30 JUN 2016, 18:30-20:30
Venue: Room 604 (6th floor), Graduate School of Humanities & Sciences Building, Ochanomizu University

Speaker：Amy Lind, PhD. (Professor and Head of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, USA)

Abstract

Ecuador’s “postneoliberal” Citizen Revolution (2007+) is one of the most radical experiments in Latin America’s challenge to the global neoliberal hegemony. Couched in socialist, revolutionary language, the Citizen Revolution has utilized a contradictory mix of messages concerning gender, sexuality and family, pointing simultaneously to the possibility and impossibility of queerness, understood as a challenge to colonial formations of sexual, gender and racial norms and taxonomies. In this presentation I address five key forms of resignification in the Citizen Revolution – family, nation, economy, life, and citizenship ? and argue that despite their revolutionary potential in “refounding” the nation and challenging colonial formations, more often than not these resignifications render queerness impossible.

Coodinator: Hisako Motoyama (Ochanomizu University）
Mariko Adachi (IGS, Ochanomizu University), Miyuki Daimaruya(IGS, Ochanomizu University)

Admission Free
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Organizer：Institute for Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University
ochagrads@gmail.com（Motoyama）