Gender, Leadership and Livelihood in a Global Context

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel features a range of important projects that examine how gender functions as a space for exclusion and coercion, but also forms opportunities for leadership and coalition-building. In addition to exploring different geographic and cultural contexts, these projects also shine an intersectional lens on the question of agency and how it can be enhanced or obstructed by certain experiences, enactments, and deployments of gender. Each project asks us to look at the varied spaces, places and forms in/by which agency is expressed, activated or constrained. The projects also ask our discipline to pay attention to the centrality of resistance, solidarity and community-organizing as critical levers of reform.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Women's Caucus for Political Science

Individual Presentations

• Gender Quotas, Local Peace-Building, and Indigenous Women’s Political Leadership - Gopika Solanki, Carleton University

• Reimagining Intersectionality & Social Exclusion: Lower Caste Muslim Women - Yasmeen Jahan, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi; MD AFTAB ALAM, University of Delhi

Chair

• Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi University of Portland

Discussants

• Jennifer Leigh Disney Winthrop University

• Phoebe W. Moon Mercer University