Management and equipment. Structure
- Centre Chair
- Academic Staff
Objectives
- To be an interdisciplinary space promoting research and teaching on gender and sexuality with particular reference to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas.
- To create a hub of research and training working to support anti-racist feminisms and social movements challenging normative constructions of gender and sexuality. Their focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East productively disrupts the teleologies of ‘Western’ feminism and our critical study of Europe and its ‘others’ has earned us a reputation as a vivid centre for queer and trans thought, transnational feminisms, critical legal theory and anti-racist knowledge production.
- not only tackle the long complex entanglements of modern feminisms with white imperialism and postcolonial nationalisms, but also incubate new strategies to decolonise feminist scholarship and praxis.
- Offering a suite of MA Programmes, Postgraduate Research Degrees, Online Postgraduate Degrees and Short Summer Courses, CGS at SOAS stands at the cutting-edge of postgraduate education for the next generation of change makers with new visions for feminist futures.
- Drawing annual cohorts of students who have received a wide range of disciplinary training in their undergraduate years in both Global South and Global North contexts, CGS cultivates a unique interdisciplinary space committed to forging connections between feminist scholarship and activism.
Research and results
- The fateful marriage: political violence and violence against women (Publication by Deniz Kandiyoti).
- Reflections on the silence on sexual violence among Palestinian feminists in Israel (Publication by Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe).
- Sexual violence in Iraq: Challenges for transnational feminist politics (Publication by Nadje Al-Ali).
- Rethinking and intersectionally deconstructing contemporary sex workers rights in England and Wales (Molly Ackhurst).
- Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan: Guardianship over Women (Book published by Afaf Jabiri).
- The Protection of Civilians and Protection of Peacekeeping Mandates: Gender and Ethics in Collective Security (Publication by Gina Heathcote).
- Sustaining Conflict: Apathy and Domination in Israel-Palestine (Book published by Nadje Al-Ali).
- ‘The Devil is in the Details’: development, women’s rights and religious fundamentalisms (Publication by Isabel Marler).
- Young grassroots activism on the rise in Iraq: voices from Baghdad and Najaf (Publication by Zahra Ali).