DFG Forschungsgruppe Recht-Geschlecht-Kollektivität (Web)

Time: 01.-03.07.2020
Venue: Freie Universität Berlin
Proposals by: 03.01.2020

One of the most controversial issues in Western democracy today is the question of belonging and participation. Law plays a pivotal role here. Recent social conflicts such as those about anti-discrimination legislation and workers’ rights, the right to the city, the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers, or the demand for sexual self-determination bear witness to this dynamic.

Against this background, the conference of the interdisciplinary Research Group (FOR) focuses on the nexus of law, gender, and collectivity. The organizers question the efficacy of gendered collectivity in the context of a hegemonic male-oriented and hetero-normative tradition of civil law. Based on deeper insights into legally standardized and, at the same time, gendered collectivization processes, the organizers are interested in learning how current social conflicts manifest themselves, and how they can be understood and described in all their complexity.

The organizers look forward to receiving theoretical and empirical contributions, for instance, from a jurisprudential, historical, sociological, philosophical, and cultural-anthropological perspective. They invite contributions in the form of 15-minute presentations addressing the following topic areas while always also factoring in the role of law and taking into consideration how the issues relate to process of gendering.

I. Law – Gender – Knowledge: Spaces and Demarcations

Given that juridicial knowledge creates gender as well as … read more and source (Web)