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2026 Regional Conference - International Geographical
Union</b></font></font></font></p>
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August 2026, Istanbul University.</b></font></font></font></p>
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Gender and Geography: Care, Connection and Change.</font></font></font></p>
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for abstracts</b></u></i></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
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<span lang="en-US">Decolonial thinking in feminist
geographies</span></font></font></font></p>
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size="3" style="font-size:12pt"><b>Chair:</b></font></font></font><font
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</span></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font
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style="font-size:12pt"><span
style="font-weight:normal">Anindita
Datta, </span></font></font></font><font
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style="font-weight:normal">University
of Delhi (<a
href="mailto:adatta@geography.du.ac.in"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">adatta@geography.du.ac.in</a>)
and Joseli Maria Silva, Federal
University of Paraná and State University of
Ponta Grossa
(<a href="mailto:joseli.genero@gmail.com"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">joseli.genero@gmail.com</a>)</span></span></font></font></font></font><font
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color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="3" style="font-size:12pt">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:</font></font></font></p>
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Inter-relations between hegemonic and
counter-hegemonic productions
of knowledge.</font></font></font></p>
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Dichotomies between central places and the creation of
epistemic
peripheries.</font></font></font></p>
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Critiques of the Eurocentrism and “Westernism” of
feminist
theory.</font></font></font></p>
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Migrations, discrimination, and coloniality.</font></font></font></p>
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Coloniality and anti-racism in gender studies.</font></font></font></p>
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Decolonizing feminist methodologies.</font></font></font></p>
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Gender, feminisms, and queer theory as possibilities
of decolonial
emancipation.</font></font></font></p>
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style="font-weight:normal">Link
for submitting abstracts: </span></font></font></font><a
href="https://www.irc2026.org/en/ABSTRACT-SUBMISSION.html"
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any queries, please send an email to: </span></font></font></font><font
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<div dir="ltr"><b>PhD Joseli Maria Silva<br>
</b>Professor of Geography | University of Federal
University of Paraná (UFPR) - State University of Ponta
Grossa (UEPG)<br>
Chair on Gender Commission - International Geographic Union<br>
Chief Editor on Latin American Journal on Gender and
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