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A few thoughts on the 1st workshop of our @isanet #FemNukes21 series last night: taking a moment to appreciate that almost a year after cancellation, and despite BIG challenges, 22 academics & advocates from different parts of the world & different disciplines finally 'met' 1/6
Mingling informally online is tricky! But I loved talking to @talei_luscia about her PhD on movt for a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific & to @tamara_patton about how critical race theory might help understand rival interpretations of nukes technology and thus policy 2/6
It was great to finally 'meet' you @RebeccaHogue, to learn about your course on resistances to nuclear imperialisms and that your special issue on the same theme is now published: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57k5g5pc 3/6
Then what an honour to listen to Claire Slatter and Vanessa Griffen's reflections on the connections between feminist and anti-nuclear activism in the movt for a Nuclear-Free Pacific, and more - about the challenges posed by changing, complex power relations in the region 4/6
Claire and Vanessa posed challenges to us too: contextualise nuclear testing in colonial, militarised and economic structures; see diversity of 'the Pacific'; recognise agency of Pacific Islanders as long having their own analysis of 'IR'; leave missionary attitudes behind 5/6
Reminds me Claire & Teresia Teaiwa in 2013 implied efforts to bring Pacific voices 'into' feminist IR are misplaced, they already do it 'even if we have never named or claimed it as such' - this is feminist IR centring a lived experience of colonialism 6/6 https://www.jstor.org/stable/44214629?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
