Dienstag, 16.12.2025
Ringvorlesung „Politische Kipppunkte“: Against the War Regime and Authoritarian Tide: Politics of Care as a Feminist Counter-Strategy
18:00 - 19:30 Uhr
Hörsaal 5, Innrain 52e
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Firoozeh Farvardin
Firoozeh Farvardin is a sociologist with a multidisciplinary background, currently a university assistant in Gender and Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna. She completed her doctoral thesis at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she examined the historical transformation of state and family and gender politics in contemporary Iran. Her current research explores gender and sexual (counter)strategies and feminist futurity under authoritarian neoliberalism.
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Amid a global order marked by permanent polycrisis and proliferating war regimes, authoritarian forces are rising by weaponizing fear, nihilistic hope, and anti-gender politics, while hollowing out the very infrastructures that sustain life. The global far right presents itself not merely as a repressive force, but as a seductive horizon of order and belonging amid the instability created by decades of neoliberal restructuring. This talk examines feminist responses to this authoritarian landscape, emphasizing how contemporary feminist struggles harness affect, reclaim futurity, and cultivate collective care as a counter-political force.
Drawing on feminist perspectives on affective politics and necropolitical hope—the use of futurity to serve death-bound, hierarchical agendas—the presentation critically assesses how feminist movements resist a future defined by disposability. Instead, they forge alternative horizons grounded in care, embodied solidarity, and survival. From the Ni Una Menos movement to the Kurdish women’s movement, and across regions including India and Iran, feminist struggles not only defend life but also reimagine it through a politics of care that merges contentious politics with prefigurative life-making.
Focusing on the Jina uprising of 2022 in Iran, the talk analyzes how decentralized networks of care—emerging from reproductive workers’ associations, pandemic-era support initiatives, neighborhood commitees, and women-led collectives—provided conditions of possibility of the uprising and sustained revolutionary energy. These care infrastructures have evolved into autonomous spaces that not only challenge necropolitical governance but also offer a new horizon for radical transformation. By foregrounding feminist practices rooted in care, the presentation argues for the enduring potencia of feminisms to imagine and construct collective futures against the authoritarian tide.
This lecture will be held online and live-streamed in Lecture Hall 5 (Hörsaal 5).
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Forschungsplattform Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck