Reframing Democracy -: Intersectional and Transnational Challenges

Reframing Democracy – intersectional and transnational challenges

This 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.