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Held as part of our House Series, this year's Stein Rokkan Lecture focuses on the relationship between the field of education and voter opinion, using evidence from across Europe and the United States.
Chair
Sophie Withaeckx
Contributors
Miriam Mona Mukalazi
Dr Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürümis
Jelena Savić
Dounia Bourabain
Mieke Verloo
Sarah Bracke
How can we build an epistemically just feminist research community and how can we challenge white innocence when engaging with public debates so strongly marked by it?
The contributions of this Round Table discuss mechanisms and technologies of white ignorance in both mainstream and feminist political research in Europe; and the practices required to transcend its dominance in our institutions and in public debates. Mukalazi and Süleymanoğlu discuss how white ignorance shapes research agendas, methodologies and findings within their sub-disciplines and the methodological practices required, and findings which are yielded when white ignorance, coloniality and its operation is problematised.
Savic and Bourabain discuss technologies of white ignorance in the public sphere focusing on the digital realm and higher education. How is ignorance of racial discrimination maintained in European HE institutions and how is this resisted by racialized scholars? How is white ignorance produced in the digital public sphere? What effect do these dynamics have on the collective European self-image and the knowledge and history we can access and share? Our final two contributors Verloo and Bracke discuss the collective reflexivity required to transcend white ignorance in the canon of gender studies; and in our interactions with policy makers, where we likely find ourselves engaging with predefined agendas shaped by the very ignorance and innocence we wish to challenge.
Chairs
dr. Petra Debusscher
dr. Laura Luciani
Contributors
dr. Koen Slootmaeckers
Dr Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürümis
dr. Marta Rawłuszko
dr. Sophie Jacquot
dr. Toni Haastrup
The June 2024 European Parliament elections could mark a turning point in the European Union’s politics and policy initiatives, both domestically and internationally. EU citizens will be casting their ballot against the backdrop of crucial issues for Europe and the world, such as the rise of the far-right, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s war on Gaza, the green transition, and economic challenges.
This roundtable seeks to critically examine the gendered implications of the EU elections, with a primary focus on how the changing composition of the European Parliament is likely to shape the agendas for gender and LGBTQ+ equality and the EU’s commitment to promoting human rights and feminist principles on the global stage. In this roundtable, we will bring together diverse scholars with various backgrounds, each offering a unique and relevant perspective on the outcome of the EU elections. Going beyond the mere interpretation of results, we will discuss what the European elections imply for representation and diversity within EU institutions, changing opportunities and constraints for feminist activism and intersectional alliances, and their consequences on the EU’s engagement with gender in foreign and security policies over the next five years.