GENDER ARC PUBLIC LECTURE @ UL
 
‘Naked Protest:Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons’
 
Dr Imogen Tyler,
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology
Co-Director for the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Lancaster University
 
Time: 4 pm  Tuesday 30 April
 
Venue: KBG-16  (Kemmy Business School)
 
Title of Lecture:
‘Naked Protest:Maternal Politics and the Feminist Commons’
In this lecture, Dr Tylor explores the practice of ‘feminist commoning’ through an examination of three protests:  a naked protest  by a group of mothers, 'failed' asylum seekers and `illegal immigrants‘ at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre in England in 2008, the use of  the 'naked curse' in protests by indigenous mothers against global oil corporations in the Niger Delta in 2005, and the 'Expose the Naked Truth' protest enacted by the feminist activist network CodePink in New York in 2010, against the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Texas. Weaving together activist materials, news reports, interviews, documentaries and historical data, she examines these seemingly local and disparate protests together in order to elucidate the transnational connections between these naked protests. Her aim is consider the common forms of what she terms ‘maternal politics’, which are being mobilised by women in different geo-political spaces, in their resistance to the gendered architectures of expropriation effected by neoliberalism.
 
 
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology