Power Asymmetries and Asymmetric Justice. Gender, Ideologies and Democracy (Session I)

Thursday, 10 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: FSE025 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice (host committee)

Language: English

The recent geopolitical scenario is bringing with it new evidence of power and justice asymmetries. Public discourse has started to change. The public sphere has become more polarized, injustice seem to have grown while the attention to it seems to have decreased both at an international and national level. New ideologies are emerging, bringing with them new narratives on the balance of power that affect issues such as justice, power, gender, democracy.
The session will explore power asymmetries, their meaning, origin, discourse and effects in different fields, both from a theoretical and from an empirical perspective. Therefore we welcome papers that will address themes such as:
- Power, in its different meanings, modalities and, most of all, distributions;
- Democracy, in its changing, narrowing and becoming;
- Gender disparities and injustice
- Justice, in its asymmetric modalities;
- Ideologies justifying power and justice asymmetries.
Session Organizer:
Flaminia SACCA, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Chair:
Flaminia SACCA, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Co-Chair:
Lorenzo VIVIANI, University of Pisa, Italy
Oral Presentations
The Representation of “Gender Ideology”: The Beginning of a New Political Ideology?
Fabio MOSTACCIO, University of Messina, Italy; Milena MEO, Italy