Meenakshi gopinath biography
BIOGRAPHY: Meenakshi Gopinath is currently Chair, Centre for Policy Research, and Founder-Director of Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace.
She is the founder and incumbent director of the Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), a non governmental organization promoting peace and socio-political leadership among the women of South Asia and a former member of the National Security Advisory Board, the first woman to serve the Government of..
Meenakshi Gopinath
Day 3: Learning from the Community: Collective Actions in the Face of Emergency
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Meenakshi Gopinath, Founder-Director, Women in Security Conflict, Management and Peace (WISCOMP), New Delhi, India
The Symbol & the Substance: The Ethics of Care in an Embattled World
The world is today in a liminal space, where the old is dying and the new has yet to be born.
To live in today’s world is, for many, to live a life of paradox and contradiction. Unprecedented breakthroughs in science and technology coexist with symptoms of decay and despair. New crises plummet unprecedented numbers of human beings into ‘precarity’ – economic, social, and psychological.
The added disruptions caused by COVID have completely reconfigured the world as we knew it – revealing the Janus face of the anthropocentric and androcentric paradigms of ‘progress’ and its associated pathologies.
This presentation is an invitation to dialogue on how a new conceptual vocabular