White Feminism Workshop

Merve Degirmenci merve.degirmenci@urbanepraxis.berlin deutsche Lautsprache Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin
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with Rahmatullah Hayat

The workshop will be held in German; please indicate on the registration form if you need an English translation.

You can find information about the facilities here: https://www.urbanepraxis.berlin/barrierefreiheit/


This workshop explores how security is constructed politically and what role gender plays in this process. Drawing on the concepts of securitization and white feminism, we examine how notions of threat arise and how criminalization, racism, and feminist discourses can reinforce one another. Together, we will discuss why white feminism does not have an emancipatory effect for everyone, but often contributes to the legitimization of exclusion and state control, and why the concept of femonationalism describes these connections more precisely. In doing so, we also focus on how social belonging in Germany is negotiated through debates on gender, religion, and security, and how these negotiations materialize in urban spaces—for example, through surveillance, urban planning, or the regulation of public spaces. The workshop invites participants to critically examine these mechanisms and to reflect on their own perspectives in the context of power, space, and inequality.

Rahmatullah Bio:

Rahmatullah is a freelance political educator with a focus on racism and anti-racism, especially anti-Muslim racism. As a student of the global ‘war on terror’, his work explores the cultural politics of anti-Muslim racism in geopolitics, European migration policy and global development work. A particular focus is on its manifestations along the axes of gender and sexuality.

Info:

This workshop builds on previous workshops on anti-Muslim racism, but attendance at those workshops is not required. As preparation, we recommend reading this text, though that is also optional: https://www.urbanepraxis.berlin/other/amr-antimuslimischer-rassismus/

This is optional and is intended to help you prepare on your own; the content will be briefly reviewed during the introductory session on white feminism in the workshop.

Registration

Form: https://forms.gle/gd3XaF92qY3JyjkZA

You can register until 6 p.m. on July 14; there is no registration confirmation, so just come!

The workshop will be held in German; please indicate on the registration form if you need an English translation.