RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE REGIMES: Solidarities & Contestations Solidarities & Contestations

Abstract

This is the fourth g-conference held since the first event in 2012, and its purpose continues to be to bring together the entire range of Swedish gender research, to support collaboration between different parts of this multifaceted field, and to strengthen the relationship between the academic community and other actors in society. The theme of the conference invites us to think together about how feminist and other critical scholars can resist and rework dominant modes of knowledge production and mobilise for solidarities. The conference title – Rethinking Knowledge Regimes – refers to multiple aspects of knowledge production, such as travelling of concepts between scholars and schools of thought, different political subjects and organisations, ideological competition on the use of ”proper knowledge”, the geopolitics and corpo-politics of knowledge, stemming from the question of who is entitled to produce knowledge or what can be seen as a problem worth researching.