Call for abstract: Gender, Law, and Power. The South-North Engagement and Action (posponed to 15.08.2024!)
Online - 15/08/2024
The call for the book Gender, Law, and Power: The South-North Engagement and Action is still open, until August 15,2024!
The book will be published in the book series Gender Perspectives in Law, Springer.
This volume would complement and extend the perspectives and understandings provided by books published in the series by opening a new space for dialogue—between the Global South and the Global North. Instead of taking the South and the North as self-evident and coherent discursive and political concept-entities, the volume will attempt to bring legal, gender, and feminist studies scholars and activists, anthropologists, historians, and social scientists concerned with injustice, oppression, and discrimination along the intersecting axes of gender, sex-orientation, race, class (and caste) from across the globe in conversation with each other.The effort will be to critically consider asymmetrical relations and structures of power, dominant socio-cultural norms, and state and legal imperatives that occasion and perpetrate inequality and injustice and explore their varied manifestations in the quotidian lives of Nation-States, gendered citizens, migrants, ‘undocumented’ residents, and several other vulnerable groups of people. This will be accompanied by situated, context-specific studies of gender and trans-gender bias and discrimination as well as struggles against them with a special focus on efforts to change laws to make them more responsive to concerns of gender as well as the impact of such calls and mobilization.
This volume would complement and extend the perspectives and understandings provided by books published in the series by opening a new space for dialogue—between the Global South and the Global North. Instead of taking the South and the North as self-evident and coherent discursive and political concept-entities, the volume will attempt to bring legal, gender, and feminist studies scholars and activists, anthropologists, historians, and social scientists concerned with injustice, oppression, and discrimination along the intersecting axes of gender, sex-orientation, race, class (and caste) from across the globe in conversation with each other.The effort will be to critically consider asymmetrical relations and structures of power, dominant socio-cultural norms, and state and legal imperatives that occasion and perpetrate inequality and injustice and explore their varied manifestations in the quotidian lives of Nation-States, gendered citizens, migrants, ‘undocumented’ residents, and several other vulnerable groups of people. This will be accompanied by situated, context-specific studies of gender and trans-gender bias and discrimination as well as struggles against them with a special focus on efforts to change laws to make them more responsive to concerns of gender as well as the impact of such calls and mobilization.
