Joint Session of Workshop – CfP
Dear all,
Please see below a call for papers for a workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2020 that was co-sponsored by our standing group.
Best,
Joost
Dear Colleagues,
The coming spring at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Sciences Po, Toulouse, France – 14-17 April 2020 the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilisation is co-sponsoring a workshop titled:
The Changing Politics of Gender in Times of De-Democratisation
Papers can be submitted to the workshop by the 5th of November, 2019.
This
workshop aims to move forward in analysing and theorizing the
consequences of increased opposition and attacks to gender equality and
its advocates. Its focus will be threefold: 1) analysing and
understanding the relation between opposition to gender equality and
processes of de-democratization and the implications of backlash for
equality rights and policies supporting them; 2) analysing the dynamics
between actors that oppose and promote gender and sexuality rights
(movement-countermovement dynamics); and 3) analysing the responses of
gender rights advocates and particularly women’s movements to backlash
and hostilities.
We plan to address three larger sets of questions:
1.
What are the gendered dynamics and implications of current processes of
democratic backsliding, illiberalism and authoritarianism? Are gender
rights in decline in contexts of de-democratization and closing civic
space? Do we see backsliding and reversal in gender equality and sexual
rights and policies? How resilient are equality policies and
institutional arrangements established in the last two decades?
2.
What actors mobilize against gender and sexuality rights? What
strategies do they use to attack equality rights? Why and how are
anti-equality forces successful in mobilizing and attracting support
from governments and other powerful allies? How do anti-gender movements
deal with the promotors of gender equality and sexual rights, do they
directly interact with them? What is the role of the state in this
movement-countermovement dynamics?
3.
What does this evolving context means for equality advocacy? What do
the anti-gender attacks and hostile states mean for movement capacities
and strategies? Does activism falter in hostile conditions or do we see
resistance and strengthening? How are the relations between state and
gender rights organizations reconfigured and how does this affect the
inclusion and participation of these groups into policy processes? What
strategies do activists employ to prevent the regression of rights?
The workshop aims to bring together three fields of inquiry: research on gender policy change, democratization research with particular attention to gender aspects of democracy, and social movement research and particularly research on movement-countermovement dynamics and women’s movements, LGBT movements and their allies. The objective is to work towards a productive and intellectually stimulating communication across these fields in order to facilitate a better understanding of current challenges to gendered democracy.
The deadline for paper submissions on November 5th, 2019.
You can find more details about the topic of the workshop and the types of papers we solicit at:
All applications should be submitted directly via the ECPR website after the selecting the workshop “The Changing Politics of Gender in Times of De-Democratisation” from the dropdown menu at https://ecpr.eu/MyEcpr/Forms/PaperProposalForm.aspx?EventID=129
In case of questions please do not hesitate to contact
Andrea Krizsan at Krizsana@ceu.edu or Conny Roggeband at c.m.roggeband@uva.nl
Best wishes,
Andrea and Conny
