Centre for Gender Studies (CGS), SOAS

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The Centre for Gender Studies (CGS) at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is an interdisciplinary space promoting research and teaching on gender and sexuality with particular reference to Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their diasporas. Since its inception in 2005, CGS has become a hub of research and training working to support anti-racist feminisms and social movements challenging normative constructions of gender and sexuality. Members' focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle East productively disrupts the teleologies of 'Western' feminism and their critical study of Europe and its 'others' has earned the CGS a reputation as a vivid centre for queer and trans thought, transnational feminisms, critical legal theory and anti-racist knowledge production. Grappling with the legacy of SOAS as a training ground for the administrators of Anglophone Empires, CGS not only tackles the long complex entanglements of modern feminisms with white imperialism and postcolonial nationalisms, it also incubates new strategies to decolonise feminist scholarship and praxis.

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School of Oriental and African Studies
London