The postsocialist ‘missing other’ of transnational feminism?

Madina Tlostanova, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Redi Koobak

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)81-87
Number of pages7
JournalFeminist Review
Volume121
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Mar 2019

Funding

Suruchi Thapar-Björkert is docent and senior lecturer at the Department of Government, University of Uppsala in Sweden. She has previously held academic positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Warwick, University of Wolverhampton and the University of Bristol in the UK. Her research falls in four specific areas: Gendered Discourses of Colonialism and Nationalism, Gendered Violence in India and Europe, Ethnicity, Social Capital and Social Exclusion and Qualitative Feminist Research Methodologies. She has published widely in these research areas in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Feminist Review, Feminist Theory, Sociological Review and Interventions. She is currently recipient of four Swedish Research Council funded projects on ‘Civil society and deliberative democracy’ (2015–2017), ‘The paradoxes of empowerment—employment guarantee, women and Dalits in India’ (2016–2019), ‘From waste to profit: gender, biopolitics and neo-liberalism in Indian commercial surrogacy’ (2017–2020) and ‘Understanding racism in healthcare: developing and implementing anti-racist strategies through shared knowledge production and evaluation’ (2018–2021).

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

  • postsocialist
  • transnational feminism
  • postcolonial
  • intersections
  • differences

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