Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism

This talk will centre the dialogue in my co-authored article 'Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism: A manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register' which  considers the possibility of a feminist approach to global constitutionalism and argues for a twofold critique: first, a feminist interrogation of the dominance of a specifically male history of Western and Anglo-European knowledge frames; and second, a self-critique within feminist approaches to global regimes and the broader feminist scholarship. The article centres the contextual understanding of what happens at the periphery of feminist scholarship to consider regional perspectives of non-English - non-dominant representations. It asks us to explore alternative, decolonized encounters to challenge the racist histories of knowledge production.

Dr Lucia Kula is an International Human Rights Lawyer and Lecturer in Law and Gender at SOAS. Her research focuses on an interdisciplinary study of international law, forced migration and gendered violence through an auto-ethnographic lens. With a background in EU law and human rights law, her interest in the language and the epistemology of legal scholarship weaves together the lived experiences of those in liminal spaces of belonging such as borders and borderlands. 

Through an interrogation of feminist legal scholarship, she examines how legal theory understands (il)legality and (im)mobility, and how conflict and violence affects displaced bodies through the multidimensional continuum of cross-border migration.

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