The Department of Gender Studies will be hosting a public lecture entitled 'Everyday Bordering, Autochthonic Politics and the Double Crisis of Governability and Governmentality'.
Speaker: Prof. Nira Yuval Davis
Venue: Francis Ebejer Hall, Lecture Theatre 2, University of Malta Msida Campus
Date: Wednesday 6 December
Time: from 16.15 to 18:00
In this lecture Prof Davis will discuss the double systemic crises of neo-liberal globalisation of governability
In this lecture Prof Davis will discuss the double systemic crises of neo-liberal globalisation of governability
of ‘nation-states’ and of governmentality of their citizens. She will examine the rising popularity of autochthonic populist politics as a bottom-up response to these crises and everyday bordering as a top-down policy response to both the crises and the rising populism. Prof Nira shall illustrate these developments with the changing politics in the UK that resulted with Brexit.
The general public is cordially invited to attend this public lecture.
RSVP Ms Marica Galea on +356 2340 3956 or send an email to marica.galea@um.edu.mt.
Nira Yuval-Davis is Professor Emeritus, Honorary Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has been the President of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, a founder member of Women Against Fundamentalism and the international research network on Women In Militarized Conflict Zones. She has acted as a consultant, among others, for UNDP and the UN Special Rapporteurs on Violence Against Women and Cultural Rights, Amnesty International and
AWID.
Nira Yuval-Davis has written widely on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected gendered
Nira Yuval-Davis has written widely on theoretical and empirical aspects of intersected gendered
nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and everyday bordering in Britain & Europe, Israel and other Settler Societies. Among her books are Woman-Nation-State, 1989,
Racialized Boundaries, 1992, Refusing Holy Orders 1992, Unsettling Settler Societies, 1995, Gender and
Nation,1997, The Warning Signs of Fundamentalism, 2004, The Politics of Belonging, 2011, Women Against Fundamentalism, 2014 and Bordering (Forthcoming). Her works have been translated into more than ten languages.
Nira Yuval-Davis has been selected to receive in the next ISA Congress the International Sociological Association second ever award in excellence in research and practice.
Nira Yuval-Davis has been selected to receive in the next ISA Congress the International Sociological Association second ever award in excellence in research and practice.
