本所將舉辦「思想與實踐」系列講座，資訊如下：

講題：Reproducing Utopia: The Traffic in Women, Sexual Violence, and Settler-Colonial Founding

主講人：Janice Feng, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Philosophy Trent University (Canada)

與談人：趙恩潔 En-Chieh Chao  國立中山大學社會學系 教授兼系主任

時間：2026年5月18日（一）14:00-16:00

地點：政治所演講廳（社SS 3010-2）

語言：英語

活動亮點：

當代政治思想中，烏托邦理念正經歷復興。然而，烏托邦思想不僅與極權主義存在關聯，更與殖民主義及帝國主義有著深刻的歷史與邏輯連結。本講座聚焦近代早期，透過解讀Henry Neville的烏托邦小說《松樹島》，並對照歐洲殖民美洲的實踐，揭示強制異性戀生殖如何成為烏托邦敘事與殖民地建構的核心。烏托邦的實現以女性，尤其是原住民與種族化女性的身體與生育為代價。去殖民化烏托邦政治思想，必須正視這一關鍵問題：誰在再製烏托邦？

The contemporary moment has seen a resurgence of utopian political thinking. Scholars from different fields deliberately evoke utopia and take up utopia as a modality of theorizing to imagine alternative forms of collective political life that would enable us to move forward from the current impasse and overcome the sense of hopelessness. More commonly, in its common-sensical use, utopia often works as a shorthand of an idyllic and ideal society, signaling a time and place that is better than the here and now. 
Some political philosophers have consistently defended the emancipatory value of utopian political thinking against charges that associate it with totalitarianism, leveled by conservatives and anti-communists in the second half of the twentieth century. Yet they do not acknowledge the left-critique of utopianism: that it is deeply intertwined with colonialism and imperialism both historically and logically. In this talk, I turn to the early modern period, which was critical to the development of utopian political thought as well as settler colonialism. Reading Henry Neville’s utopian novel, The Isle of Pines, along with early modern European settler-colonial practices in the Americas, I argue that compulsory heterosexual reproduction is absolutely central to both. That is, the narration of utopia and the actual founding and erection of utopia—settler colony—both hinge on heterosexual and heteronormative reproduction. As such, utopia entails the traffic in women, and sexual and gendered violence against women, especially racialized (in the narrative) and Indigenous women (in practice). To decolonize utopian political thought—to continue to evoke utopia to envision liberation and justice—demands that we attend to this central yet often ignored question: who reproduces utopia?

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