Southeast Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting
March 24-26, 2011
Structural Adjustments: Queering Privatization, Framing Disaster
Hosted by the Women's Studies Institute Georgia State University, College of Arts & SciencesStructural Adjustments: Queering Privatization, Framing Disaster
Recent devastation in Haiti and Chile, and their resonances with the breached levees in New Orleans, urge and remind us to put these events in context. Crumbled edifices, flooded and abandoned neighborhoods, and sensationalized images of the newly displaced surrounded by piles of rubble speak less to the physical weaknesses of buildings and more to the bankruptcy of social institutions that determine which populations and communities will be most impacted. As with official narratives of war and militarization (cast as “just” or “necessary”), or development and democracy (cast as “progress” or “inclusion”), the recourse to the framework of “natural disasters” overlooks the realities of systemic inequalities, and their gendered, sexualized, racialized, and classed dimensions.
This theme sheds light on such issues as the structural adjustment programs that have devastated indebted economies, the impact on buildings of these (un)natural disasters, and the shifting spaces resulting from gentrification and privatization. SEWSA 2011 will bring together scholars interested in asking how feminist, womanist, and queer modes of analysis can intervene in these narratives and open up possibilities for revisioning alternatives.
All submissions should be sent as an e-mail Word attachment to sewsa2011proposal@gmail.com no later than NOVEMBER 1, 2010.
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