Panel @ ECAS 2019 – Call for abstracts

I’m pleased to annonce that it’s now open the call for papers for the panel “Continuities and contestations in responding to gender-based violence: laws, practices, definitions“, which will be held at the next European Conference on African Studies in Edinburgh, 12-14 Jun 2019. Please see below the call. You can submit a paper by 21 January 2019 following this link. Looking forward to reading you!

Short abstract
This panel wants to discuss the diachronic and contested development of juridical responses to gender-based violence in African countries and invites fieldworkers to reflect on how, in this particular domain, law constitutes a semi-autonomous social field.

Long abstract
A persisting issue in Africa is that the defence of gendered minorities as a social and political stake principally emerged as the result of colonial policies and, then, development and humanitarian ones. The very definitions of what it has being locally considered gendered justice reflect these ongoing histories of power and governamentalities. Continue reading