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Long Abstract
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This panel, bringing together scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, will look at the conceptualisation of risk and marginality through a framework of intersectionality. Neoliberal technologies claim to be apparatuses of standardisation - sets of practices and norms that serve to minimise risk for supposed democratisation of participation in a "free" market-defined public sphere/space. Through intersectional readings of risk, this panel exposes and subverts the dominant discursive facade of standardisation of risk structured by neoliberal techno-regimes and their supporting political/ideological formations. The papers in this panel offer interpretations of practices of risk perception, risk construction and risk evaluation that are deeply situated and grounded in processes of cultural-religious-political-economic identity formations and expressions. How do closested queer men in contemporary India respond to instances of violence such as financial extortion or sexual abuse experienced through queer dating applications? How do societal perceptions of digital participation by young Muslim women in India translate into ‘self-imposed’ censorship or risk-taking practices? What kinds of futures are imagined, through an assessment of risk, in consenting to new forms of health technologies and interventions? How do these everyday negotiations of risk challenge dominant methodologies for doing social justice research among marginalised identities? Risk then is a compound of different locations that subjects occupy with regard to their gender, sexuality, religion, caste, and cultural and economic capital. This panel will analyse how the conceptualization and management of risk in everyday life are contingent upon an intersectional reading of identity, and by enquiring how such a reading of risk could generate expansive pathways towards healing. On the one hand, the panel will demonstrate the multiplicity of risk as it is woven into our ‘coloniality’, while, on the other, advocate for anti-colonial approaches to cognitive frameworks used to identify, apprehend and mitigate risk.
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