Gender, Race, and Religion in the Spectacle of Citizenship – 24th February 2010
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Gender Institute (London School of Economics) Public Lecture: Minoo Moallem – 24 Feb – 6.30pm
The LSE Gender Institute in association with the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies present:
Minoo Moallem, Professor and Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Gender, Race, and Religion in the Spectacle of Citizenship
- Date: Wednesday 24 February 2010
Time: 6.30-8.00pm
Place: New Theatre (East Building) at the LSE
Respondent: Dr Nadje Al-Ali, Reader in Gender Studies, SOAS
Chair: Dr Sumi Madhok, Lecturer in Transnational Gender Studies, LSE Gender Institute
Abstract: This paper elaborates on the significance of visual images and their circulation in the formation and transformation of citizenship in a transnational and postcolonial context. By focusing on the example of Iran and the Iranian diaspora, I interrogate new forms of governmentality that have emerged in mass mediated spaces linking notions of political citizenship and cultural citizenship. I argue that the circulation of visual images in, what I call, the spectacle of citizenship, has not only played an important role in the formation of modern citizen-subjects in Iran, but also continues to be an important site of cultural and political negotiations, pushing notions of nation, identity, religion, secularism, belonging, and citizenship beyond their limits. The Iranian example further illustrates the expansion of the public sphere to the transnational realm through the extension of nationalism beyond its territorial boundaries, opening up space for an interrogation of regional negotiations, national transgressions and transnational transactions.
This will be followed by a drinks reception at the Gender Institute.
For speaker biographies and a list of all forthcoming events, visit http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/genderInstitute/events/seminarseries09.htm
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