{"id":5366,"date":"2011-01-25T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:15:52","slug":"cfp-gendered-exclusion-in-uncertain-times-postmulticulturalism-denizenship-and-radicalism-in-europe-event-092011-geneva-dl-25022011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=5366","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Gendered Exclusion in Uncertain Times \u2013 (Post)Multiculturalism, Denizenship and Radicalism in Europe (Event: 09\/2011, Geneva); DL: 25.02.2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

RN32 Political Sociology\/ RN 33 Women’s and Gender Studies: Social Relations in Turbulent Times <\/strong>(Web) <\/a><\/p>\n

Venue: Genf\/Geneva, Switzerland
\nTime: 7th-10th September 2011
\nDeadline:<\/strong> 25th February 2011<\/p>\n

Panel: Gendered Exclusion in Uncertain Times \u2013 (Post)Multiculturalism, Denizenship and Radicalism in Europe
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\nThe first decade of the third millennium appears to epitomize a turbulent times: the September 11th suicide attacks, the global economic meltdown, the rise of radical right populist parties across Europe, and the ever louder critical voices against multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

These are just some examples among many other political developments that shape the debate around discursive exclusionary projects and the calls for forging a common national\/European project around issues of shared identity and cultural homogeneity in turbulent times.<\/p>\n

Paramount to all these concepts are the preoccupation with maintaining an illusory unity and the ever growing demographic panic, coupled with the fear of cultural dilution, which are used to justify an ever closer policing of hierarchies, borders and bodies. These fleshes out problems raised by a type of \u201csecond class of citizenship\u201d projected onto immediate \u201cOthers\u201d, based on differences of gender and sexual orientation, of class, religion, ethnicity and \u201crace\u201d. Distinctions and borders are construed around these dimensions, and keeping the so constructed categories apart is a constant discursive disciplinary preoccupation. Gendered hierarchies are elaborated to enforce heteronormative patriarchies as sole domains of intelligibility. In this context, fears of masculine feebleness or sexual deviancy, thus failure to accomplish the task of national reproduction, are seconded by that of national dilution \u2013 of allowing native women to interact with male immigrant \u201cOthers\u201d. Concomitantly, the feminine \u201cOthers\u201d are projected in terms of oppressed subjects that need the European civilizatory help in order to break free from aged patriarchal oppression.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, authors are encouraged to submit papers investigating the apparently dichotomous distinction that separates the gendered categories of \u201cUs\u201d as opposed to \u201cOthers\u201d in present Europe.<\/p>\n