Calendar
Spring Seminar Series: Cinzia Solari (UMass Boston)
- Starts:
- 12:00 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Ends:
- 1:15 pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2025
- Location:
- SOC 241, 96 Cummington Mall
- URL:
- https://www.bu.edu/sociology/community/sociology-seminar-series/
"The Gender Order of Neoliberalism"
What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, and cultural realities of neoliberalism’s global gender order. Blending social theory, rich empirical evidence, and a multi-sited understanding of neoliberalism, this talk is an invitation to question taken-for-granted knowledge about gender and capitalism, and to look to grassroots international movements of the past to chart the path to a fairer future.
Bio: Cinzia D. Solari is Associate Professor of Sociology at UMass Boston. She is a feminist ethnographer whose work has focused on post-Soviet peoples as they make their way in a capitalist world. Dr. Solari has used the tools of global ethnography to investigate the intersections of migration, modernity, and neoliberal capitalism. Recent investigations into how pro and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is deployed by nation-states in the international area have led to her current research which focuses on nonbinary and transgender youth. She is a first-generation scholar.