Workshop on Proposed Volume “Politics of Waiting and an Expanding Gender Horizon: The Social, Political, and Legal Discourses in India” | Organised By Centre for Women and the Law

The Centre for Women and the Law (CWL) is organising an in-person workshop on December 14, 2024, on the NLSIU campus for a proposed volume titled ‘Politics of Waiting and an Expanding Gender Horizon: The Social, Political, and Legal Discourses in India.’

Overview

The proposed volume aims to reimagine ‘gender’ through the conceptual framework of the ‘politics of waiting’. As we explore the social and legal discourses shaping and transforming ‘gender’ as an analytical category, we intend to push our thinking to examine the intersection between gender and waiting. This one-day workshop, designed to deliver constructive feedback to the contributors, is instrumental for manuscript preparation. Twelve chapters with contributors from all over the country are invited to the NLSIU campus. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge (Taylor & Francis).

The editors of the volume are Dr. Debangana Chatterjee and Dr. Sarasu Thomas.

Schedule

The workshop will commence at 9:30 am and conclude at 6 pm.

• Session I | 9.30 am – 11.15 am | Breaching the Wait: The Discourses on Rights and Legal Phallocentrism
• Session II | 11.30 am – 12.30 pm | ‘Labour’ of Love: Waiting as Neoliberal Subjects
• Session III | 12.30 pm – 2 pm | Instrumentalising the Wait: A Site of Resistance and Tool for Oppression
• Session IV | 3 pm – 4 pm | The Caged Bodies in Waiting
• Session V | 4 pm – 5 pm | The Contemporary Humanitarian Crises: Juxtaposing the Global and Local

Here is the full schedule.