A materialist account of patriarchy under the post-colonial state I Mohammed Elnaiem

A materialist account of patriarchy under the post-colonial state
Speaker: Mohammed Elnaiem (University of Cambridge)
11 May 2022
Public Seminar Series, Trinity term 2022: 'Resistance, Justice, Liberation: Critical Approaches to Knowledge Production on War, Violence and Colonization'
Series convenor: Dr Dilar Dirik (Joyce Pearce Junior Research Fellow)
About the Seminar
Women were at the heart, and continue to be at the forefront, of decolonisation and the struggle for self-determination. The promise for self-determination often came hand in hand with a commitment by national liberation movements to uproot and overthrow patriarchy. Yet, just as neocolonialism re-entrenches itself in the post-colonial state, so too did the domination of women remain a fundamental pillar of so-called post-colonial sovereignty. This lecture will seek to explain how the structural necessity of patriarchy has not been overcome by decolonisation.