In recent discussions on gender justice, an increased focus has been on transnational feminist networks to facilitate “solidarity across borders”. In the face of growing global interdependence, the hope is that a transnational citizen’s movement could potentially galvanize global co-operation to overcome gender violence and promote gender equality.

In her talk, Nikita Dhawan argues that while new modes of collective agency can emerge by drawing on gendered vulnerability as a site of political agency, “global sisterhood” can inadvertently function as a tactic of neoliberal authority. Her lecture critically engages with the promise and limits of global gender justice from a postcolonial perspective.