TY - ABST
T1 - Reframing Democracy -
T2 - Christina Research Seminar
AU - Siim, Birte
N1 - PhD-seminar: Democratic Theory and Gendered Practices, University of Helsinki, May 30-31, 2016
PY - 2016/5/31
Y1 - 2016/5/31
N2 - Reframing Democracy – intersectional and transnational challengesThis presentation will explore the theoretical andnormative challenges to reframe feminist approaches to democracy fromintersectional and transnational perspectives and present empirical findingsfrom EU research projects. The recent economic crisis has inspired debatesabout equality and justice within and beyond the nation state and about theabilities of transnational civil society actors to influence the politicalagenda. Feminist scholarship has started to explore intersections of gender,class and diversity at national and transnational levels and to reframe feministapproaches to gender equality and justice. The intersectional challenges todemocracy include debates about gender, class and ethnicity/race; aboutparticipation/ representation and redistribution; about politics and economics.The transnational challenges include debates about intersections of democracywithin the nation state with supra-national EU and global governance. Birte Siim ispolitical scientist and Professor in Gender Research in the Social Sciences,Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. Her publications ondemocracy and citizenship include: GenderDiversities – Practicing Intersectionality in the European Union. Ethnicities. 2014 (14) 4 (with L.Rolandsen Agustin); “PoliticalIntersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere”, Politics & Gender, 2014 (10)01; “Conflictsand Negotiations about Framings of Gender and Ethnicity by Political Actors inthe European Public Sphere”; Journal ofInternational and Comparative Social Policy, 2014 (30) 1; Negotiations ofGender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere (ed. with M. Mokre), Palgrave/Macmillan 2013;“Citizenship” in K. Celis, V.Waylen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics, OUP, 2013; Gender and Citizenship – Politics and Agency in France, Britain andDenmark (CUP 2000). Her current work focuses on intersectionality/diversity,migration/multiculturalism, (trans) nationalism.
AB - Reframing Democracy – intersectional and transnational challengesThis presentation will explore the theoretical andnormative challenges to reframe feminist approaches to democracy fromintersectional and transnational perspectives and present empirical findingsfrom EU research projects. The recent economic crisis has inspired debatesabout equality and justice within and beyond the nation state and about theabilities of transnational civil society actors to influence the politicalagenda. Feminist scholarship has started to explore intersections of gender,class and diversity at national and transnational levels and to reframe feministapproaches to gender equality and justice. The intersectional challenges todemocracy include debates about gender, class and ethnicity/race; aboutparticipation/ representation and redistribution; about politics and economics.The transnational challenges include debates about intersections of democracywithin the nation state with supra-national EU and global governance. Birte Siim ispolitical scientist and Professor in Gender Research in the Social Sciences,Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. Her publications ondemocracy and citizenship include: GenderDiversities – Practicing Intersectionality in the European Union. Ethnicities. 2014 (14) 4 (with L.Rolandsen Agustin); “PoliticalIntersectionality and Democratic Politics in the European Public Sphere”, Politics & Gender, 2014 (10)01; “Conflictsand Negotiations about Framings of Gender and Ethnicity by Political Actors inthe European Public Sphere”; Journal ofInternational and Comparative Social Policy, 2014 (30) 1; Negotiations ofGender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere (ed. with M. Mokre), Palgrave/Macmillan 2013;“Citizenship” in K. Celis, V.Waylen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook on Gender and Politics, OUP, 2013; Gender and Citizenship – Politics and Agency in France, Britain andDenmark (CUP 2000). Her current work focuses on intersectionality/diversity,migration/multiculturalism, (trans) nationalism.
KW - Equality
KW - social justice
KW - activism
KW - participation
KW - redistribution
KW - recognition
KW - Yuval-Davis
KW - Fraser
KW - methodological nationalism
KW - transversal politics
KW - postnational citizenship
KW - acts of citizenship
M3 - Conference abstract for conference
Y2 - 29 April 2016 through 1 May 2016
ER -