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In recent years, the world has witnessed growing feminist challenges and anti-feminist right-wing backlash. We have also observed the blurred boundaries between feminist politics and reactionary politics, as in the case where women’s self-empowerment is both a feminist goal and a neoliberal propaganda. As the power in the late capitalism develop new strategies and apparatuses to regulate, control, manage, and defuse feminist practices and politics, the key question at stake thus is one of autonomy. Departing from the Western, liberal notion of autonomy – defined as the realization of the desires of individual’s true will, our discussion draws on de-colonial, queer feminist insight of agency - that moves beyond the binary model of enacting and subverting norms  - to address the contemporary predicament. Against this backdrop, we invite the CDF community to explore how the changing communication environment re-shapes the ways in which autonomy is experienced and enacts, and how autonomy can be reimagined by different media practices and performances.

 

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