Organized by: Dr. Esther von der Osten, Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin, PD Dr. Susanne Lettow, Margherita von Brentano Center for Gender Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Dr. Tuija Pulkkinen, Department of Cultures, Director doctoral program Gender, Culture and Society (SKY), University of Helsinki.

Input

Jule Govrin (Berlin)

The pandemic confronts us with our relationality and shared vulnerability. At the same time, it reveals how people are rendered structurally vulnerable and precarious. How to rethink equality, but also inequality, on the basis of bodies? On one hand, Verónica Gago and Luci Cavallero propose a perspective at economy from below, starting from bodies. Following this suggestion, it becomes apparent how certain bodies are vulnerabilized through forms of differential exploitation according to the international and gendered division of labor. On the other hand, feminist body politics and solidaristic practices of care unfold egalitarian potential – and thus points to a universalism from below. 

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