Seminar with Tejasvi Saxena, Shiv Nadar University

Women as Co-Constituents of the Global South: Feminist internationalism in shaping the Afro-Asian consciousness

The construction of the Global South as a transnational territory has long been reified, pivoting on non-alignment and Afro-Asian consciousness within the context of Indian Internationalist thought. However, these ideational constructs have been attributed solely to male leadership, exemplified by Nehru, Sukarno, Tito, and Nasser, thereby occluding the presence of women as co-constituents of the Global South. This talk discusses the inevitable presence of feminist internationalism in shaping the Afro-Asian consciousness through the conceptual framework of feminist decoloniality, reiterating the articulation of plurality of non-official modes of anticolonial thought that nourished the identity of the Global South.

About the speaker

Tejasvi Saxena is a final-year Doctoral Candidate at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies. His research interests are Postcolonial Feminism, Black Feminist Thought, Global Intellectual History and Decolonisation.Email: ts690@snu.edu.in