Doing Intersectionality in Gender Based Violence: The Dynamics of Inclusion, Opposition, Coalition and Power

Abstract

This panel examines intersectionality in gender-based violence policy and policymaking processes where violence is conceptualised as a sign of crisis. The papers study how gender-based violence is problematized and treated in the context of the intersections of gender and multiple inequalities. The question of how gender-based violence is (re)presented to be a problem through and by policies and political actors and what intervention mechanisms and types of solutions that are proposed to ‘solve’ the problem will be interrogated. How intersectionality is ‘dealt with’ in the making of gender-based violence policy and in the accompanying (re)negotiations of gender. Empirically, the panel examines how political institutions, governmental bodies, movement organisations, and other policy actors, work with intersectionality in practice. The papers refer to intersectional arenas in policymaking across a range of forms of violence linked to gender inequalities and to the future of feminism. The panel asks how dynamics of inclusion, opposition, coalition and power are linked to policy changes ad neoliberal shifts. What inequalities or constellations of inequality groups are consulted and have a voice in the making of policy? How do women’s organisations or equality commissions or policies include/exclude inequalities and their intersections? Within a framework of violence as a sign of crisis the papers presented in this panel discuss the future of feminism.

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