Chakravartty to lecture at women's studies center
Paula Chakravartty, associate professor of Communication, will discuss “Exclusion and Citizenship in the ‘Global information Society’: Lessons from Feminist Transnational Activism” on Monday, Oct. 1 at 4 p.m. at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center.
In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals outlined by the United Nations emphasized that access to information and communication technologies such as telephones, computers and the Internet, should be considered a basic socio-economic need alongside access to food, shelter, education and health care. However, the gender divide on this issue is sharp. Chakravartty will trace the recent history of feminist activist mobilization through the UN around the inequalities and exclusions that are a central component of the neo-liberal model of a “global information society” that promises to flatten differences between North and South.
The center is located 83 College St. in South Hadley on the campus of Mount Holyoke College.
September 24, 2007.
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