While new modes of collective agency can emerge by drawing on gendered vulnerability as a site of political agency, the production of the female vulnerable subject also functions as a technology of postcolonial governmentality. Our talk will investigate the role of civil society and the state in promoting and obstructing gender justice by addressing the following questions: How is the problem of gender violence constituted in post/colonial societies? What knowledge is produced towards handling and solving the problem? How are specific forms of
interventions rationalized? How does the tactical deployment of vulnerability of women simultaneously make them “governmentalizable”?