Femmes, genre et politique

N08 - Micro-Paper Roundtable: Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow

Date: May 31 | Heure: 08:45am to 10:15am | Location: Classroom - CL 417 Room ID:15723

Chair/Président/Présidente : Stephanie Paterson (Concordia University)

Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities? Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow:

Michael Orsini (University of Ottawa)
Gina Starblanket (University of Manitoba)
Stephanie Paterson (Concordia University)
Francesca Scala (Concordia University)
John Grant (King’s University College, Western University)
Chamindra Weerawardhana (University of Victoria)
Toby Rollo (University of British Columbia)
Debra Thompson (University of Oregon)
Sarah Wiebe (University of Hawai‘i)
Jeanette Ashe (Douglas College)

Abstract: The motivation for this micro panel is two-fold. First, while courses, conferences, and debates in Political Science have shifted from “women and politics” to “gender and politics” many publications currently available in the field continue to discuss women and politics but largely fail to engage with both gender and feminist politics more broadly. For instance, there is very little scholarship in the field on the timely and complex topics of masculinities and politics and transgender politics. As a result, political scientists interested in discussing and/or teaching these topics are forced to go to other disciplinary publications such as Sociology or Cultural and Queer Studies. Second, within the last two years there have been a number of remarkable shifts in politics on the international, national, provincial and municipal level that are fundamentally connected to issues of gender. With this context in mind, the panel will provide an opportunity to bring together scholars offering complex treatments of both gender and politics on an array of topics, and in light of various collective identities and their intersections.