Intersectional and transnational approaches to Gender and Politics: contemporary issues and challenges

Abstract

Citizenship is essential for our ideas about equality, social justice, and democracy. This is relevant for thinking about local, national, or regional forms of citizenship, human rights and global citizenship. Gender is important for citizenship since claims for gender equality and social justice are central aims of democratic processes. Gender and gender identity interact with categories, such as sexual orientation, ‘race’, class, religion, nationality, and indigeneity. Issues concerning gender and citizenship have been, and still are, politically contested by actors within civil society and political institutions in societies around the world. These issues have long time engaged many feminist and critical researchers. This panel includes scholars interested in theoretical, analytical, and normative approaches, topics, and contemporary debates about gender and citizenship to present critical, feminist, and transformative citizenship approaches, concepts, and innovative research with a special focus on intersectional and transnational approaches. The panel first addresses papers with different perspectives and approaches to gender and citizenship, transnationalism, or intersectionality. Papers that aim to conceptualize key issues in feminist thinking concerned with intersections of gender, race, masculinities, and sexuality, for example Black feminist and post-colonial and decolonizing feminist thought, critical masculinity studies and key issues in sexual citizenship. Secondly, it addresses papers that contextualize issues concerning gender and citizenship in different parts of the world. How do contexts of time, place, space, and agency influence our understandings of when, where, why and how struggles against discrimination, marginalization and recognition and rights to citizenship have emerged and developed in different parts of the world? Thirdly, it addresses papers that examine how different struggles over gender and citizenship in Europe and across the world influence contemporary issues and challenges investigating links between old and new topics and trends. For example, emerging discussions about, how acts of citizenship, and affective citizenship are mediated, how gender can lead to exclusionary as well as inclusive forms of citizenship and solidarity politics. Finally, the panel includes papers concerned with normative debates exploring national, glocal, and global strategies for the future of gender and citizenship.

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