The one day dialogue is being organised in collaboration with FES. The FES is a German non-profit organization committed to the ideals of social democracy. Gender is one of its key work areas, which it mainstreams in other work lines.
Taking space as a question, this dialogue draws attention to the ways in which women in Media and Diplomacy situate, formulate, navigate, encounters with ‘difference’ the idea of space. The idea of both dialogue and difference is integral to this conversation, given the location of this in India. In consonant with critical feminist scholarship, we explore the politics of ‘stories -so- far’. We call attention to the implicit hierarchies in the ordering of spaces- both in Media and Diplomacy, the norms, the exclusions as women navigate both from the margins, and the front. We lay emphasis on the politics of situated knowledge, given the differing contextual realities in South Asia, the differing feminist histories and of course the coloniality in the politics of knowledge production itself.