Against the genocidal function of liberal feminism: lessons from Palestine's resistance

This talk extends work on gendered ecologies of waste in Palestine to explore the structural relationship between Western liberal feminism and imperialist accumulation in Gaza.

It will examine how from the 1936-1939 Great Revolt to the Intifada, Palestinian women revolutionaries developed anti-imperialist praxes refusing both colonial domination and Western feminist frameworks.

It explores how women in besieged Gaza enacted this revolutionary praxis and transformed genocide into sites of disobedience. It will argue how this demonstrates anti-imperialist feminist pedagogy produced through revolutionary struggle rather than academic abstraction.

These practices centre national liberation, reject liberal inclusion within imperial structures, and offer revolutionary lessons for confronting US-led imperialism's gendered violence across the Global South.

This event is part of the Society's Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group (GFGRG) online seminar series.

Speaker

• Walaa Alqaisiya