Feminist Infrastructural Critique: Life-Affirming Practices Against Capital, published in July 2024, is thematic issue of the FKW Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture. The editors, Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, and Claudia Lomoschitz, will introduce the notion of feminist infrastructural critique and the thematic issue as a whole: fourteen contributions by thirty-six authors write about their activist feminist infrastructural practices in a wide range of geographies ranging, among others, from the Brazilian Amazon to different cities in Europe, Pakistan, the Seychelles, Syria, Puerto Rico. Taken together they show that infrastructure can be practiced otherwise and resists capital’s colonization of nature and bodies that is built on infrastructure.

The contributions focus on the life-affirming dimensions of infrastructural practices foregrounding that use, maintenance, and repair are key to resisting, and overcoming, infrastructural violence and injustice.

Contributors Urška Jurman and Vida Rucli, both part of the Ecologies of Care group, will speak about their specific work on sites under pressure in Ljubljana and Topolò/Topolove respectively.

The event will be moderatored by Helena Schmidt.

Organisation and production: City of Women Festival in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, and with the support of the ERSTE Foundation. Co-oganizer: Škuc Gallery.