Call for Papers
This
interdisciplinary conference will explore the discursive, historical,
political, social limits of legal systems, including state laws,
policies, institutionalised un-written based customs, traditions and
their operation about gender-related as well as gender-specific issues.
Legal systems often structure, impacts, controls, constructs or
deconstructs, intervenes and acts against certain relations whether
between or intra states. Legal norms established to protect or promote
gender equality may have unintended consequences and legal norms that
seem irrelevant to gender may nonetheless significantly impact gender
issues and various forms of gender-related violence.
The conference aims to engage with
different legal systems across cultures focusing on the ways in which
social mores are institutionalised in societies aiming to render a
subtle, complex account of the discursive construction of gender,
linking together ideologies, language, their cultural groundings and
their operation in legal context. It invites the participants to bring
in the cases that enable further discussions in relation to broader
contexts including social, political, cultural, economic and legal
processes that underlie the construction of the gendered subjectivities.
This
conference is open for papers across disciplines, including, but not
limited to, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies,
cultural studies, politics, international relations and else.
The conference will explore the following themes:
1- Language structure and legal system:
How do systematic aspects of language, structure the meaning of gender
roles and mediate the social conflicts with legal institutions deal? How
does law affect the meaning system that demarcates the boundaries
between right and wrong, moral and immoral? How do legal orders (such as
customary law, international law) interact with the hegemonic effects
of the state law? : In a related vein, how do we understand the complex
and non-determinist embodiment of social epistemologies in legal
language?
2- Power and Hegemony: How are both
imposition hegemony and moments, discourses acts of resistance made
possible in, through and by legal language? How do people use state law
or other legal norms to enact their hegemony and or to create
resistance?
3- Affect and Law: What are the
possibilities of thinking about the ‘affect’ and law? How should
particularly-debated cases that created public outrage be understood and
analysed in relation to court decisions especially when the decision
was against the public? How does the affect of ‘the law’ spread across
institutions, media and the public?
4- State and Law:
What is the role of ideology of official state in the
legal/institutional regimentation and sedimentation of language in the
legal institutions? What is the role of culture in legislation? In a
cultural relativism-universalism debate, what is the common
understanding of human rights and freedoms for the full realization of
this pledge?
5- International Law and Gender Politics: How do global political measures affect international law related to gender?
6- Employment and Labour Market:
How does discrimination and equality in relation to gender, apply
within the field of employment in a legal context? What are the
limitations of the principles of non-discrimination and equal treatment
in achieving to enter the labour market?
7- Migration:
What are the impacts of policies that cause gender-discrimination in
migration and refugee context? What kind of policy and practices are
needed in the global policy agenda to address gender equality in the
migration context?
The decision process for the contributions
will include two steps: in the first instance abstracts (up to 350
words) will be reviewed by the conference committee and those invited
for the second step will be asked to submit a full proceedings paper (up
to 4000 words). All papers invited for the final programme will be
published in the conference proceedings and will also be considered for a
potential edited book that will be compiled by the organisers after the
meeting. Formal meetings will be followed with a social programme and
relevant site visits organised by the host institutions.
http://www.socialstudies.org.uk/conferences/genderandlawconference--
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