Women Claim Home Gendered Dimensions of Urban Regeneration, Forced Displacement and Activism in Cambodia and Sri Lanka
Event details
As part of the Centre for Women's Studies "Women's Studies Now!" research seminar series, this seminar is a discussion between Dr Asha Abeyasekera’s research on women’s home-making as an ethical and political life principle in the context of dislocation in Sri Lanka and Dr Saba Joshi’s research on rural women’s activism against land dispossession in Cambodia.
The session will feature the short documentary film – BEING HERE: Stories of Home – based on Asha Abeyasekera’s research in Sri Lanka followed by a discussion on Joshi’s research on the gendered dimensions of dispossession, activism and claim-making among rural citizens dispossessed of their homes and agricultural lands in Cambodia.
About the speakers
Asha L. Abeyasekera and Saba Joshi
Asha L. Abeyasekera is a Lecturer at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York. She obtained her PhD in International Development and Social Anthropology from the University of Bath.
Her research interests include intimate relations and women’s subjectivities; ethical self-making; women’s care work and the gendered labour of home-making; and cross-cultural expressions of emotions and wellbeing.
She is the author of Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka (2021, Rutgers).
Saba Joshi is a Lecturer in Gender and Development, at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of York.
Her research focuses on gender in international relations, social movements, land politics and agrarian change, with a geographical focus on South and Southeast Asia.
Her PhD thesis obtained from the Graduate Institute, Geneva examined the politics of large-scale land acquisitions in contemporary Cambodia, drawing on 16 months of field research carried across five rural provinces.
Her research has been published in journals such as Third World Quarterly, Globalizations and the International Journal of Feminist Politics (recipient of the 2020 Enloe Award- best article by an early career scholar).
Contact
Centre for Women's Studies
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