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Conference report: Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World

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By Isabelle Cheng (University of Portsmouth), Lara Momesso (University of Central Lancashire) and Dafydd Fell (School of Oriental and African Studies) Academics around the world are frequently reminded by their governments, funding agencies, audiences and their own community that scholarship is not only for the pursuit of knowledge but also for making a difference to human life. Claiming that organising a conference can achieve these goals is an overstatement. Yet, hoping to facilitate a close dialogue between scholarship and activism was the rationale behind the design of our recent conference, Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border, and the People

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Conference: Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World

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Isabelle Cheng and Lara Momesso, CRaB members who specialise in migration in East Asia, have been awarded a total of €20,775 for organising an international conference entitled ‘Rethinking Transnationalism in the Global World: Contested State, Society, Border and People in between’ on 7-8 September 2017 at the University of Portsmouth. Attended by scholars from the UK, US, Germany, Japan, Macao, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan, this conference aims at enhancing the theorisation of transnationalism with reference to the rich experiences of Taiwan as a migration hub in East Asia. The conference will investigate transnationalism in four panels: sovereignty and

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Feminism, co-option and (racial) neoliberalism

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By Terese Jonsson At a recent event organised by the Women’s and Gender Studies research cluster at the University of Portsmouth, titled ‘Feminisms, anti-racism, social justice: Theories and strategies for our times’, the topic of feminism’s co-option by capitalist and racist forces was much discussed. The co-option of feminist language and politics by a variety of nefarious forces is a recurrent topic of feminist concern, with some of the most common culprits identified as capitalism/neoliberalism, racism, imperialism. For example, Nancy Fraser’s and Angela McRobbie’s analysis of the neoliberal co-option of feminist language and politics in the service of the market

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