On 8 November Dr Nandita Shaw will give a public lecture at the International Institute of Social Studies on the challenges to the Indian Women's Movement. As the co-director of Akshara, a not-for-profit women's organization based in Mumbai, Shah has worked towards empowering women to articulate, demand and access their rights by enhancing women’s leadership and focusing on issues of gender justice and social justice and engaging men in this struggle and as part of the solution.
- Speaker
- Date
- Thursday 8 Nov 2018, 16:00 - 18:00
- Type
- Lecture
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 3.01
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
In her lecture, Nandita Shah will speak about the ongoing campaigns in the women's movement in India such as the uniform civil code, the MeToo campaign, violence against women, and initiatives to make the city of Mumbai safe and inclusive for women.
About the speaker
Nandita Shah has over 30 years of experience strengthening the women’s movements locally, nationally and internationally both through her activism and writing. She has coordinated a concerted engagement for inclusion of gender in the Master Plan of Mumbai (2014-34) and for the first time in the history of the country a gender chapter has been added and new legends have been created. Since 2004, she has been an active member in the International council of the World Social Forum which is one of the most important platforms for alternative voices globally.
She completed her PhD from University of Amsterdam and is an ISS alumna, specializing in women and development. Her co-authored book Issues at Stake: Theory and Practice in the Contemporary Women's Movement in India and Contingent Workers: Women and Industrial Restructuring in two industries in Mumbai, have been an important contribution to women’s studies and the women’s movement.
She has taught courses on Women’s Studies in India and abroad. She is currently on the Civil Society Advisory Group for UNWomen MCO based in India. She is an active member of a feminist collective Forum against oppression of women, Mumbai.
