The Sound of Silence - Conversations with Mainstream EU Studies

Abstract

In December 2023 the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) published a report on the state of Equalities+ thematics within the European Studies canon. The report finds that significant gaps and structural challenges in the way the EU studies canon is constructed. This matters because it has an impact on the way we think about the subject of our study and reproduce key assumptions about EU politics, policy and law. The silence around established and emerging debates around the role of the EU as an equality actor is a missed opportunity for us as scholars to draw attention to the all-encompassing nature of social hierarchies and their influence on institutional politics and policies, the pursuit of the “common” interest and the many different interpretations of equality as a principle. This roundtable offers an opportunity to discuss strategies for engaging with EU studies as a field and, in so doing, mainstreaming feminist, intersectional and critical approaches to the study of the EU and European politics more broadly. This non-standard panel will bring leading scholars and practitioners in the equalities+ space in conversation to examine strategies for mainstreaming feminist knowledge in the context of European studies.

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