Online seminar series: What is the Global South and why it matters - Session 14

Session 1: Women as Co-Constituents of the Global South: Feminist internationalism in shaping the Afro-Asian consciousness

Speaker: Tejasvi Saxena, Doctoral Candidate, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University

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.

Date and Time: Wednesday 11 March, 1pm–2pm GMT/BST

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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

About the seminar series

This online seminar series aims at both centring and critiquing discussions around the ‘Global South’.

Contributions will come from leading academics drawn principally from the social and human sciences whose research or practice engages with, challenges, or advances the concept of the ‘Global South’ and who, to do so, draw on a variety of theoretical, scholarship and research positions.

The series will be of interest to academics, professionals, students, researchers and policy makers eager to diversify their knowledge and make their professional practice more inclusive. It would appeal to those working in the areas of criminal justice including prisons, probation services and policing, education, nursing, psychology, social policy, sociology, and social work.

The series will take place every Wednesday, 1-2pm (BST/GMT), in February and March 2026, starting Wednesday 11 February. It will be Co-Chaired by Professor Elaine Arnull and Dr Amy Duvenage.

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If you have any questions, please email elaine.arnull@solent.ac.uk.