Mutually assured survival: feminist solidarities amidst planetary threats

相互确保生存:在地球威胁中的女性团结

LSE: Public lectures and events

2025-10-22

1 小时 21 分钟
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Contributor(s): Dr Lyn Ossome, Professor Shirin M Rai, Dr Gloria Novović | We are beset by existential planetary threats - from environmental emergencies and public heath crises to grotesque inequalities and wars. Can global feminist solidarity and a feminist theory of social reproduction provide an emancipatory agenda that will foster the material conditions that make the reproduction of human and non-human life possible?
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • And a very warm welcome to both our in-person and our online audience.

  • I am Charmila Parmanand,

  • Assistant Professor in Gender Development and Globalization at the Department of Gender Studies here at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • It is my pleasure to chair tonight's event, Mutually Assured Survival,

  • Feminist Solidarities Amidst Planetary Threats,

  • generously hosted by the Ralph Miliband Program here at LSE.

  • This conversation is happening amidst existential planetary threats from environmental emergencies and public health crises to grotesque inequalities and wars.

  • This conversation is part of a series of interventions attached to an upcoming special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics co-edited by Dr. Gloria Novovich and Professor Shirin Rai.

  • So before we begin, just a few housekeeping notes.

  • Please put your mobile phones on silent to avoid disrupting the discussion.

  • Please note that this event is being recorded and we hope to make a podcast of it available online.

  • So let's go.

  • We have three remarkable feminist scholars and thinkers with us tonight and we're very lucky to have them here.

  • The first Dr. Lin Osome is an associate professor and director of the Macarera Institute of Social Research at Macarera University and current president of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.

  • Her work is in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory with research interests in gendered labor,

  • land and agrarian questions, the modern state, and the political economy of gendered violence.

  • Her books include Gender, Ethnicity,

  • and Violence in Kenya's Transitions to Democracy, States of Violence,