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Gender, Democracy and Inequalities: Intersectional Analyses
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC12 Sociology of Law (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
For the first time, an ISA meeting highlights ‘intersectionality’ in its heading. Hence, the Gender, Law and Society WG of the RCSL, which already encompasses intersectionality as one of its keypoints, would like to submit a session devoted to intersectional analyses of democracy, inequalities and environment issues in the current international context. The 2010-2020 decade, although it has provided with numerous examples of gendered and intersectional forms of inequality underlining the many threats women and minorities keep facing (sexual harassment, persistence of economic oppression, ‘glass cliff’ phenomenon; human trafficking, everyday harassment of LGBT communities, restriction of reproductive rights, notably abortion, rising number of femicides), has also provided platforms for women and minorities to speak up. Thanks to social media in particular, voices have been heard that used to be silenced, e.g. the #MeToo movement and its local variants.
Building on the insightful discussions in our WG sessions at the 2018 RCSL/SDJ meeting in Lisbon, we welcome intersectional analyses of democratic structures and justice systems across the world, which seem to perpetuate patriarchal and heteronormative norms of power. These norms are also claimed, notably by eco-feminists, to exert similar forms of oppression on the Earth, leading to environmental disasters and global climate change. Papers analysing these phenomena from a theoretical, historical or field-based perspective are welcome, the session aiming at shedding light on the gendered, intersectional, transnational and global dimensions of and resistance to inequalities, especially in times when the urgency of migration and climate change issues has been widely recognized.