関東支部：2022年度 第6回例会
日時：10月30日（日）13:30～15:00
場所：上野区民館 １階101集会室 （東京都台東区池之端1-1-12）
東京メトロ千代田線湯島駅徒歩2分、銀座線上野広小路駅、京成・JR上野駅
タイトル：COVID-19 and Connecting Gender Communities: Reflecting on Feminist Praxis During Lockdown in South Africa（ロックダウン下の南アフリカでジェンダー・コミュニティを繋ぐ：金曜日のオンライン対話）
講演者：Dr Babalwa Magoqwana（ネルソンマンデラ大学社会学・人類学科上級講師、同大学女性・ジェンダー研究センター長）
使用言語：英語（通訳なし）
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講演要旨：
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Coronavirus (COVID-19) a global pandemic in early March 2020, the Centre for Women and Gender Studies (CWGS/Centre) at Nelson Mandela University embarked on a series engagement under the name “Online Reading with the Author Friday” (which was later renamed, “Author Fridays”). The global pandemic disrupted life and forced all of us into our isolated spaces. This is when the CWGS started reimagining engagements to include academics, students and community members across different sectors and geographic spaces.
During this pandemic, it became clear that natural sciences and medical fields were central to the governments and pharmaceutical companies in answering critical questions raised by the global pandemic. The CWGS managed to create “imagined communities” (noted by Anderson) to centralise the social sciences and humanities perspectives in understanding the COVID-19 disruption, as this disconnected the global humanity -physically, intellectually, and emotionally. The Centre started driving conversations and engagements on what these global shifts meant for the global humanity from the social science and humanities perspectives.
This digital space garnered audiences across the different times zones, linking different scholars to share their work, discuss ideas from their isolated homes, celebrate their achievements during COVID-19 with a community and continue to build the younger generation of scholars through intergenerational dialogues centering different kinds of themes as features in South African national calendar, including health, women’s work, youth questions, women’s biographical and knowledge histories, queering Africa, gendered liberation heritage and many other topics. This paper uses this moment to reflect on the visual, thematic, and creative contributions of the Centre in connecting gender communities across space and time during the lockdown in South Africa.
講演者について：
Dr Babalwa Magoqwana is a founding director for the Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University, a senior lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology Department in Nelson Mandela University. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Rhodes University. She is a former president of the South African Sociological Association (SASA from 2017-2019). She is the recipient of the National Research Foundation/ First Rand Foundation Sabbatical Grant for her project on “Building a Woman-Centred Vernacular Sociology”. She has published in different areas including the sociology of gender, sociology of work, labour sociology, higher education, and indigenous knowledge systems.
ババルワ・マゴクヮナ博士：ネルソン・マンデラ大学の女性・ジェンダー研究センターの初代所長であり、ネルソン・マンデラ大学社会学・人類学部の上級講師。ローズ大学で社会学の博士号を取得。南アフリカ社会学会(SASA)の元会長(2017年から2019年まで)。「女性中心のヴァナキュラー社会学の構築」に関するプロジェクトで、国立研究財団／ファーストラント財団の特別研究助成金を受賞。これまでに、ジェンダー社会学、労働社会学、労働社会学、高等教育、先住民の知識体系など、さまざまな領域にかんする著書・論文等を発表。