Round-table presentation: Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Citizenship, Birte Siim and Pauline Stoltz eds. (fortc. 2024)

Abstract

Abstract: The Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Citizenship (fortc. 2024) aims to explore different perspectives and approaches to gender and citizenship, with a special focus on intersectional and transnational approaches. One objective is 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. Another objective is to contextualize issues concerning gender and citizenship in different parts of the world by asking how 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? In the Handbook these issues are explored in depth by critical feminist researchers based in Europe, Africa, India, Australia, North and South America. The chapters explore recent feminist theoretical, analytical, and normative contributions to and controversies about key concepts, approaches, topics, and strategies in contemporary scholarship about gender and citizenship. They critically explore 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. The four selected roundtable presentations address key issues in the feminist contributions to gender and citizenship that in different ways concern theoretical and normative debates about activist citizenship, Right-wing populism, nationalism and bordering, statelessness, politics of belonging, colonialism/de-colonialism/postcolonialism and anti-gender movements. The titles of the four presentations are: 1. Intersectional and transnational approaches to gender and citizenship: contestations and contributions; 2. Global perspectives on citizenship, statelessness, and gender. 3. Re-nationalizing citizenship and democratic backsliding: anti-gender movements in central and eastern Europe; and 4. Acts of citizenship: resisting sexual violence in South Africa.

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Global perspectives on citizenship, statelessness, and gender	View Paper Details
Re-nationalizing citizenship and democratic backsliding: Anti-gender movements in central-eastern Europe	View Paper Details
Ruptures, aesthetics of nakedness and rage against sexual violence in South Africa	View Paper Details
Intersectional and transnational approaches to gender and citizenship: Contributions and contestations	View Paper Details