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In person icon Roundtable on Methods for Researching Gendered Institutions: Where Are We Now? Where Next?

Gender
Governance
Institutions
Political Methodology
Feminism
Methods
P074
Barbara Gaweda
University of Helsinki
Louise Chappell
University of New South Wales
Georgina Waylen
University of Manchester

Friday 09:00 - 10:45 CEST (12/06/2015) In person icon Building: Gamla torget, Floor: 2, Room: Brusewitz

Abstract

This roundtable brings together feminist scholars employing gendered institutional analysis under the broad umbrella of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (www.femfiin.com), which seeks to expose the ways in which political institutions are gendered, and the processes by which particular gendered patterns of power are replicated or challenged (see, for example, Kenny 2007; Krook and Mackay 2011, Lovenduski 1998, 2011). Challenging and transforming political institutions has long been recognized as central to feminist projects of change. Existing institutions - the global and local “rules of the game” -can be reformed or new institutions created. We now have a wealth of case studies about efforts to insert new actors, new rules and new ideas into old institutions and emerging work integrating gender concerns into wider institutional design processes. The focus of this workshop is to take stock of the methods we use to capture the work that gender and institutions do: what are the limits and promise of the methods we have used to date? How do we identify gender bias in the rules, practices and norms of institutions of politics and governance? How do we operationalise concepts such as gender regimes, informal institutions, hegemonic masculinity, gendered knowledge, and gendered logics of appropriateness etc.? What other methods do we need to excavate, understand and explain gendered institutions, their impacts – and their potential for transformation? Participants will discuss strategies that have worked and not worked in their work on institutions such as the International Criminal Court (Chappell), the European Commission (Cavaghan) and the UN (Mackay); political parties in the global North and South (Kenny, Bjarnegard), legislatures (Childs and Allen) and executives (Waylen); and methods to be discussed include: process -tracing, ethnographic and observational analysis, comparative and single case studies, interviews, narrative analysis, behavioural and mixed methods.

Title Details
Roundtable Participant - Meryl Kenny View Paper Details
Roundtable Participant - Elin Bjarnegård View Paper Details
Roundtable Participant - Sarah Childs View Paper Details
Roundtable Participant - Rosalind Cavaghan View Paper Details
Roundtable Participant - Peter Allen View Paper Details