Welfare State and Social Citizenship

Abstract

Speakers: Trudie Knijn and Eva Fodor Feminist knowledge has deeply transformed political science research by bringing attention to the power inequalities manifest in political theory and practice. Many feminist concepts have travelled well beyond the boundaries of gender and sexuality research, challenging and altering the mainstream of the discipline of political science. However, the success of feminist political science has also created some problems including the risk of diluting the subversive potential of feminist knowledge as well as promoting the use of feminist concepts that ignores their origins and meaning in white, queer and black feminist thought. Each seminar aims to foster the transmission and transformation of feminist knowledge by putting into dialogue diverse scholars across East and West and North and South divides to discuss their understanding of core feminist concepts and approaches relating to diverse thematic areas. In this second seminar of our newly launched online series, we discuss the contribution of feminist scholarship to the study of welfare state and social citizenship.