Description
This panel explores the central role of women in contemporary protest against state violence, inequality and environmental degradation. The panel brings together comparative perspectives from case studies from India, Russia and Kenya and examines a variety of protest forms ranging from institutional activism to organized mass protests to individual forms of embodied everyday resistance. Contributors will highlight how gendered power relations influence strategies of women’s protest and discuss intersectional approaches that account for race, class, and age in understanding women’s protest participation and political agency. The discussion aims to generate new insights into how women’s protest reshapes democratic practice and will be of interest to scholars of protest movements and everyday resistance practices as well as scholars working on the specific geographic areas.