[Air-L] CFP-""Gender-oriented mobilizations and social movements", ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck (Austria), 26-28 August 2020

[Elena Pavan]

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Dear all,

please see below the call for paper for the panel "Gender-oriented 
mobilizations and social movements" of the next General Conference of 
the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research), which will take 
place in Innsbruck (Austria), 26-28 August 2020. The panel is included 
in the section "Current Research and Challenges on Political 
Participation and Mobilization", endorsed by the ECPR Standing Group on 
Participation and Mobilisation.

If you wish to contribute to the panel, send an abstract (max 500 words) 
at elena.pavan at unitn.it <mailto:elena.pavan at unitn.it> by *February 10th, 
2020*.
The full panel proposal will then be submitted to the ECPR on 19 
February 2020. All those kind enough to submit abstracts will be kept up 
to date on progress throughout.

All the best,
Elena

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Gender-oriented mobilizations and social movements

All over the globe, we are witnessing increasing levels of mobilization 
that address sex, gender and sexuality from different angles. On the one 
hand, from Latin America to the US, Europe, Africa and Asia, women's, 
feminist and transfeminist, as well as LGBTQI movements are struggling 
offline as much as online to reclaim equal rights for all gender 
subjectivities, and to end all forms of gender-based violence, abuse and 
discrimination. On the other hand, conservative and reactionary groups 
are mobilizing worldwide and crossdimensionally in the name of the 
"natural family", to defend traditional and binary gender-related roles, 
opposing any attempt to deconstruct or question them as well as 
revamping anti-abotion and pro-life claims. Also, gender-related issues 
become, more or less instrumentally, part of political parties' 
programmes and strategies thus opening complex entwinments between 
grassroots mobilizations and institutional politics.

This panel explores political participation and mobilization around the 
politics of sex, gender and sexuality. It collects papers that address 
the multifaceted nature of participation endeavors in this domain 
looking at dynamics that: i) cut across multiple spaces (the grassroots, 
political institutions and the space opened up by digital media); ii) 
are carried out in different modes (formal political alliances, social 
movements, online discussion networks); iii) are aimed at overcoming 
power unbalances amongst genders or, conversely, aspire at restoring a 
social and political order grounded in sexual dimorphism.

Abstracts should be sent to Elena Pavan (elena.pavan at unitn.it) by 
February 10th. The full panel proposal will then be submitted to the 
ECPR on 19 February 2020. All those kind enough to submit abstracts will 
be kept up to date on progress throughout.

-- 
Elena Pavan, PhD
Senior Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Social Research
via G.Verdi 26
38122 Trento (Italy)
https://unitn.academia.edu/ElenaPavan