CURRENT

• Transnationalizing Justice

PAST:

• Feminisms and Global War

• Generations in Action

• Feminist Anger, Social Rage

CURRENT PROJECTS:

TRANSNATIONALIZING JUSTICE
As feminism has been integral to activist and human rights challenges to incarceration, so too has it aided in the development of international frameworks for justice that have expanded the domain of criminal law.  Transnationalizing Gender Justice stages a conversation between these two strains of feminism by bringing together scholars, activists, service providers and legal practitioners working in regions that have generated transnational conversations about the content and contours of justice to negotiate tensions between feminist challenges to the prison industrial complex and the necessity to address gender violence at an international level...(Full Details)

PAST PROJECTS:

FEMINISMS AND GLOBAL WAR PROJECT
The mission of the IAFR's first multi-year project, Feminisms and Global War, has been to increase the visibility and influence--while extending the analyses--of feminist critiques of international militarism and terrorism. Faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars and activists have worked together to generate new feminist strategies of intervention that derive from re-conceptualizations of problems for which war is now considered a necessary solution...(Full Details)

GENERATIONS IN ACTION: A COMMUNITY/UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIVE
Generations in Action works to connect girls and women in Santa Cruz County by fostering mentoring relationships across age cohorts and by establishing cross-generational coalitions. Generations in Action is the IAFR's central university /community partnership. Although the projects draw on and support the research of UCSC faculty and graduate students, they also seek to directly engage and serve the larger Santa Cruz community. Generations in Action combines research, theory and community activism through inter-generational dialogues and projects that examine the diverse contexts of our lives, varied attitudes towards culture and politics, and problems of and possibilities for social change along the intersecting axes of age, race, class, gender, and sexuality...(Full Details)

FEMINIST ANGER, SOCIAL RAGE
Feminist Anger, Social Rage will appeal to scholars from diverse disciplines and with a range of interests (e.g., feminist and psychoanalytic theorists, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, cultural and literary critics, philosophers, political theorists and political scientists, psychologists, film theorists, art historians and artists.) In developing this project, participants will explore--through research, publications and community-oriented activities--the relation of psychological to social phenomena, of individual to collective anger, and of collective anger to constructive and destructive political action...(Full Details)