[News] Session: Decolonial thinking in feminist geographies - IRC 2026 Regional Conference - International Geographical Union

[Sybille Bauriedl]

*IRC 2026 Regional Conference - International Geographical Union*

*17-21 August 2026, Istanbul University.*

Commission: Gender and Geography: Care, Connection and Change.

/_*Call for abstracts*_/


*Session:* Decolonial thinking in feminist geographies

*Chair:*Anindita Datta, University of Delhi (adatta at geography.du.ac.in) 
and Joseli Maria Silva, Federal University of Paraná and State 
University of Ponta Grossa (joseli.genero at gmail.com)


In this session, we, as two feminist geographers from and of the Global 
South, consider the geopolitics of knowledge in the production of 
feminist geographies. The current power relations in scientific practice 
have increasingly provoked encounters and interactions between 
researchers from diverse locations. This has been made possible by a 
shrinking world due to the expansion of the Internet, advances in air 
transport, and the strong growth of national policies to enhance the 
internationalization of scientific production. At the same time, a 
deepening of neoliberalism mediates the diverse ways of producing and 
circulating scientific knowledge (scientific journals, books, university 
positions) and the depoliticization of what engenders such a process has 
assuredly created new forms of colonization of knowledge and of 
epistemic racialization – a process we argue has picked up momentum 
within the past two decades. Discussing how scientific encounters among 
researchers from various locations have occurred, and their impacts on 
knowledge production and knowledge asymmetries, is an urgent and 
essential debate in these hybrid times of globalization. While we note 
that the relationships among researchers are intensified due to a 
shrinking world, we also sense the strengthening of the central places 
or “privileged cores” of enunciation of scientific discourse and the 
exacerbating of the epistemic silencing of those who are constituted as 
“others” due to being located in the “peripheries or margins”. We call 
for reflections on what can constitute decolonial emancipation- both in 
terms of subject, praxis, and methods within feminist geographies and 
invite presentations on the following topics:

- Inter-relations between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic productions of 
knowledge.

- Dichotomies between central places and the creation of epistemic 
peripheries.

- Critiques of the Eurocentrism and “Westernism” of feminist theory.

- Migrations, discrimination, and coloniality.

- Coloniality and anti-racism in gender studies.

- Decolonizing feminist methodologies.

- Gender, feminisms, and queer theory as possibilities of decolonial 
emancipation.


Link for submitting abstracts: _https://www.irc2026.org/en/_ 
<https://www.irc2026.org/en/ABSTRACT-SUBMISSION.html>


For any queries, please send an email to: adatta at geography.du.ac.in or 
joseli.genero at gmail.com



-- 
*PhD Joseli Maria Silva
*Professor of Geography | University of Federal University of Paraná 
(UFPR) - State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG)
Chair on Gender Commission - International Geographic Union
Chief Editor on Latin American Journal on Gender and Geography.
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