Gender and Politics Research Group
This group brings together lecturers and researchers who think of gender as a central analytical lens through which power, institutions, norms and identities should be studied.
Gender is increasingly prominent in research and teaching within the Department of Political Science. The members of our group approach gender politics from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. A number of researchers are interested in debates on gender and security with an emphasis on diplomacy, gender just peace, women and war, and soldiering. Our members also conduct research in gender and development on topics such as the Sustainable Development Goals and women’s empowerment.
Our group meets several times during the semester to discuss draft papers, articles and books proposed by our members. We welcome new members and guest researchers.
Rola El-Husseini Dean
Email: rola [dot] el-husseini_dean [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (rola[dot]el-husseini_dean[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)
Markus Holdo
E-mail: markus [dot] holdo [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (markus[dot]holdo[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)
Members at Political Science
- Abdelmoez, Joel
- Brolin, Linn
- Dandrifosse, Margaux
- Ekström, Hanna
- El-Husseini Dean, Rola (Convenor)
- Gregoratti, Catia
- Holdo, Markus (Convenor)
- Imre-Millei, Bibi
- Kalm, Sara
- Karlsson, Caroline
- Kempermann, Lena
- Magalhaes Teixeira, Barbara
- Nicoson, Christie
- Norocel, Ov Christian
- Pacciardi, Agnese
- Siow, Orlanda
- Stein, Anne Lene
- Taha, Hebatalla
Members outside Political Science
Include colleagues from Gender Studies, Economic History, Human Geography, Malmö University, Gothenburg University, Copenhagen University, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Aalborg University and Freie Universität Berlin
August 22, 12.00-13.00
Gender and Politics Research Group: “Feminist Political Science and Feminist Politics”
Welcome to an open conversation about whether research on gender and politics should be feminist and what that means.
We begin the conversation with a brief introduction based on Marian Sawer’s article “Feminist Political Science and Feminist Politics”. You find the article here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2014.930554
September 2, 12.00-13.00
October 9, 12.00-13.15
November 6, 12.00-13.00
November 19, 12.00-13.00
Welcome to a discussion on the “International Men’s Day” about men’s roles in feminist movements. Markus Holdo will begin the discussion by presenting work in progress and some reflections on others’ research on masculinity and men’s activism.
December 3 12:00 to 13:00 | Location: Large Conference Room, Eden (Ed 367)
Jointly organized with the Peace and International Politics Research Group | Location: Large Conference Room, Eden (Ed 367)
Link to the article: https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/68/2/sqae038/7642608
- 1 February (Ed 366, noon): Reading and discussion of Brännström and Gunneflo’s “Swedish Foreign Policy Feminisms: Women, Social Democracy and Capitalism”, Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47:2, 207-227.
- 6 March (room TBC by Dalia, 14:30-16:00): Reading and discussion of Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi’s Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (introduction and chapter 1). Co-organised with Public Administration and Political Theory research groups.
- 24 April 2023 (Ed 367, 13:15-14:30): Higher research seminar with Maria Martin de Almagro (University of Ghent) “Gender, Natural Resources and Conflict Prevention: Politics, Matter and Imaginaries”.
- 7 May (Ed 366, noon): Reading and discussion of Françoise Vergès’s A Feminist Theory of Violence: A Decolonial Perspective.
20 September 2023 12:15 to 14:30 | Research group meeting
Planning meeting followed by higher research seminar with Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick).
Gender and Politics Research Group | Svetnet (lu.se)
3 October 2023 12:00 to 13:00 | Research group meeting
Mona Krook (Rutgers University) will be presenting her work on semiotic violence and the US Capitol insurrection. This event is also co-sponsored by the Department of Gender Studies.
Gender and Politics Research Group and Comparative Politics Research Group | Svetnet (lu.se)
11 October 2023 12:15 to 13:00 | Research group meeting
Joel Abdelmoez (Lund University) "Whose Islam is it? The challenges of employing a gendered methodology in Islamic Studies”.
Gender and Politics Research Group | Svetnet (lu.se)
14 November 2023 12:00 to 13:00 | Research group meeting
Elin Bjarnegård (Uppsala University) “Rigging Representation: Procedural Autocratic Genderwashing”.
Gender and Politics Research Group and Comparative Politics Research Group | Svetnet (lu.se)
Gender and Politics Research Group: Feminism and the state
19 September 2022 12:15 to 13:00 | Research group meeting
Gender and Politics Research Group: The Sexual Contract
11 October 2022 12:15 to 13:00 | Research group meeting
Gender and Politics Research Group: Gendering externalisation
15 November 2022 12:15 to 13:00 | Research group meeting
24 February
Reading of “Troubling False Care: Towards a More Revolutionary ‘Care Revolution’ in the University” by Ann E. Bartos
17 March
Dr. Maj Grasten (Copenhagen Business School) and Dr. Miriam Bak McKenna (Roskilde University) “Legal Borderlands in the Global Care Economy”
19 April
Professor Hanne Marlene Dahl (Roskilde University University) “A Care Crisis in the Nordic Welfare State?”
13 May
Reading of “A critical reflexive politics of location, ‘feminist debt’ and thinking from the Global South” with Professor Sumi Madhok (LSE)
24 May
Dr. Priscyll Anctil (Lund University) and Dr. Luna K C (McGill University) “‘Bad Women?’ Re-integration of Female Combatants in Nepal and Colombia”
September 16
Group Discussion “How gender equal is Sweden?”
October 8
Dr. Claire Duncanson (University of Edinburgh)“Feminist Engagements with Green New Deals”
October 12
Dr. Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir (Malmö University) and Prof. Annica Kronsell (Gothenburg University) “Gender, intersectionality and climate institutions in industrialized states”
November 30
Nela Porobić Isaković and Gorana Mlinarevic (WILPF)“The Peace that is Not. 25 years of experimenting with peace in Bosnia and Herzogovina - feminist critique of neoliberal approaches to peace building”.
May 20
Workshop with doctoral students:
- Caroline Karlsson “The knowledge production of the incest taboo”
- Georgia de Leeuw “On emotions”
- Jessica Cheung “Feminist Foreign Policy: A typology”
May 10
Dr. Cristian Norocel, (Lund University) “The Discursive Contours of Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 ‘Referendum for Family’ in Romania” (with Ionela BĂLUȚĂ, University of Bucharest, Romania).
April 28
Dean Cooper-Cunningham (Copenhagen University) “Security, Sexuality, and Memes: International Contestation of Russian Political Homophobia”.
April 19
Workshop with doctoral students:
- Anne Stein “Linking Peace and Resistance: The idea of agonistic peace epistemic disruptions”
- Christie Nicoson “Feminist peace and the politics of climate change”
- Leila Sunagic “The Formation of Diverse Social Movement Coalition: The Art of Balancing. A Case study of the Women’s Movement in Morocco”
February 25
Dr. Emily Flore St. Denny (Copenhagen University) "Policy learning to reduce inequalities: The case of Scottish gender mainstreaming in a multi-level UK".
December 16
Dr. Pauline Stoltz (Aalborg University) “Gender, resistance and transnational memories of violent conflicts”
November 23
Dr. Douglas Brommesson (Lund University) “Teach more, but do not expect any applause": Are women doubly discriminated against in universities' recruitment processes”
September 21
Group discussion: Feminist Solidarities
Research Group Seminars
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