Who Are We
The concepts of Feminism and Queer have been interwoven into our discourses at various forums and panels of the IUAES. We wish to deal with all aspects of feminisms and queer theory. As a concept, feminism points to the widening disparities of wealth, health, power, and access to citizenship and human rights that characterize the current global era as a historically-contingent conjuncture that social scientists seek to interrogate and better understand. These growing disparities are grounded in intersecting dimensions of difference that implicate hierarchies and social asymmetries that are organized around gender, race, ethnonational or religious status, class, caste, sexuality, generation (i.e., age), or differences in ability. The most relevant intersections vary across contexts of time and space. The cultural logics, regimes of representation, geopolitics, and formations of political economy that contribute to the feminism and queer are deepening the social inequalities that re-shape the terrain upon which diverse human agents are differentially positioned to navigate within a variety of contexts, which range from local to transnational levels.
The International Commission on Global Feminisms and Queer Politics provides a platform for engaging in critical analysis on aspects of globalization, neoliberalism, development, and socio-political and gender dynamics that are often neglected within established bodies of anthropological research.
More about the history of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and links to all of the Commissions you my find at its homepage.
Activities
With the aim of undertaking multidisciplinary and international research on transnational feminisms and queer politics in all regions of the world, through its local and global events and publications, the commission travels the world to identify and consolidate marginalized voices in feminist and queer anthropology, arts, and humanities in general.
During the 18th IUAES/ WAU Congress held at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil in 2018, there was a calling on all women scientists to participate in the Global Network of Feminist Anthropology: “a moment for the Meeting of All Women”. The full content of the articles presented during this Congress available at 18th IUAES World Congress Proceedings, divided into four volumes.
The first conference oficialy organized by the Global Commission of Feminism and Queer Politics developed from the title: And Women in the History of Anthropology? It took place at the Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador in Brazil on July 24-26, 2018 http://www.womeninanthropology.ufba.br/.
Since then, it is with great satisfaction that discussion networks in the area of gender and sexuality have grown in forums and panels organized by IUAES/WAU – World Anthropological Union.
In 2023, at the 19th edition of the IUAES / WAU Congress held in India, we had the registration of 8 panels entirely dedicated to the theme of gender and sexuality,(P023/ P027/ P034/ P039/ P064/ P087/ PT148/ PT161) apart from participations in round tables and virtual panels.
Today we are happy to be collaborating with hundreds of scientists, researchers, artists, journalists, universities, and associations in all continents.
Appplication
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Chairs
Chair:
Miriam Pillar Grossi (Brasil) – email: miriamgrossi@gmail.com
Deputy-Chair:
Martha Patricia Castañeda Salgado (Mexico)
Members / participants
| Adriana Piscitelli | Brazil |
| Agnieszka Koscianska | Poland |
| Akitomo Shinga | Japan |
| Alinne Bonetti | Brazil |
| Amanda Medeiros-Oliveira | Brazil |
| Ana Cecilia Gaitán | Argentina |
| Anabella Barragán Solís | Mexico |
| Andrea Carolina | Mexico |
| Andrea Rottmann | Germany |
| Athanasia (Nancy) Francis | UK |
| Ângela Figueiredo | Brazil |
| Anita Keinz | Germany |
| Asuno Tase | India |
| Candice Vidal e Souza | Brazil |
| Carmelita Afonseca Silva | Cape Verde |
| Carmen Gregorio Gil | Spain |
| Carmen Rial | Brazil |
| Caterina Alessandra Rea | Brazil |
| Cecília Maria Bacellar Sardenberg | Brazil |
| Clementina Baptista Furtado | Cape Verde |
| Dayuan Chen | UK |
| Debjani Bhattacharyya | India |
| Douglas Santos da Silva | Portugal |
| Eufémia Vicente Rocha | Cape Verde |
| Elisete Schwade – Brazil | Brazil |
| Fabiene Moraes de Vasconcelos Gama | Brazil |
| Fatima Weiss | Brazil |
| Faye Venetia Harrison | USA |
| Fernanda Moraes – France | France |
| Felipe Bruno Martins Fernandes | Brazil |
| Fiona Hackney | UK |
| Giselle Guilhon Antunes Camargo | Brazil |
| Grażyna Kubica-Heller | Polonia |
| Grit Kirstin Koeltzch | Argentina |
| Heather O’Leary | USA |
| Helen Macdonald | South Africa |
| Heloisa Buarque de Almeida | Brazil |
| José Ignacio Pichardo Galán | Spain |
| José María Valcuende del Río | Spain |
| Katarzyna Kosmala | Uk |
| Lia Zanotta Machado | Brazil |
| Laura Mercedes Oyhantcabal | Uruguay |
| Loveena Sehra | India |
| Maiara Diana Amaral Pereira | Brazil |
| Margaret Bullen | Spain |
| Mara Viveros Vigolla | Colombia |
| Marek Sancho Höhne | Germany |
| María Augusta Rodrigues Ribeiro | Nicaragua |
| Maria Lis Baiocchi | USA |
| Maria Soledad Cutuli | Argentina |
| Mario Pecheny | Argentina |
| Marion Teodósio De Quadros | Brazil |
| Marisa Ruiz Trejo | Mexico |
| Martha Patricia Castañeda Salgado | Mexico |
| Mary Rosaria Goldsmith Connelly | Mexico |
| Miren Elixabete Imaz Martínez | Spain |
| Miriam Pillar Grossi | Brazil |
| Monica tarducci | Argentina |
| Nasim Basiri | Iran |
| Neisenuo Apon Rengma | India |
| Nilika Mehrotra | India |
| Nimisha John | India |
| Olga Orlic – Croatia | Croatia |
| Paola Bacchetta | USA |
| Patricia Alexandra Godinho Gomes | Brazil |
| Reem Kassem | Egypt |
| Rozeli Maria Porto | Brazil |
| Ropfuvino Krose | India |
| Saptarshi Bairagi | India |
| Savita Borai | India |
| Rezwana Karim Snigdha | Bangladesh |
| Subhadra Channa | India |
| Sumit saurabh srivastava | India |
| Susana Rostagnol | Uruguay |
| Suzana Moura Maia | Brazil |
| Suzana Vergara | Brazil |
| Tânia Welter | Brazil |
| Vanja Petrovic | Serbia |
| Vinicius Kauê Ferreira | Brazil |
| Yihungle Ndang | India |
