Religious Discourse and Gender Security in Southern Thailand
Autor/in:
Marddent, Amporn
Quelle: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12 (2019) 2, S 225-247
Inhalt: This article describes the complexity of applying human security through the notion of gender equality in southern Thailand where violent conflict has been prevalent for nearly half a century in a Malay-Muslim-dominated society. It explores how the concepts of gender and security have been interpreted in Malay-Muslim leaders’ outlooks. To define security more broadly, the article surveys the various notions of peacebuilding dealing with comprehensive human security and any security threat, thus not limited to state of war or physical violence only. In the prolonged armed violence and conflict, like that faced in Thailand’s Deep South, women’s security and their role in peacebuilding emerge as pertinent concerns. The discontinuities within the narratives of women and security highlight a divergence connected to personal-political imaginations of conflict whereby subtle variations in violent conflict can be seen as the products of different policy prescriptions, local cultural norms, and the project outcomes of women groups supported by governmental organizations and national and international donors. Thus, in order to reflect upon how contemporary security notions are framed, gendered security perceptions ought to be considered as they signify the exercise of peacebuilding programs in the local context. Persistent advocacy of gender equality is about cultural change, which eventually becomes a modality for non-violent society.
Schlagwörter:Thailand; Thailand; Kulturwandel; cultural change; menschliche Sicherheit; human security; Gender; gender; Gleichheit; equality; gender-specific factors; politischer Konflikt; political conflict; Gewalt; violence; Friedenssicherung; peacekeeping; religiöser Konflikt; religious conflict; Islam; Islam; Deep South of Thailand; Gender Security; Malay-Muslim Women; Peacebuilding
SSOAR Kategorie:Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Gender equality and children's equality in liberal and conservative discourses: implications toward language and society
Autor/in:
Odrowąż-Coates, Anna
Quelle: Society Register, 3 (2019) 4, S 7-16
Inhalt: This introductory article is intended to open the volume of work prepared by the participants of the 12th UNESCO Janusz Korczak Chair International Summer School. The participants presented these papers at the RC25 ISA Interim International Conference in Warsaw, entitled: "Language and Society. Research Advances in Social Sciences" (26-27.09.2019), exploring the concepts of gender equality and children's equality in liberal and conservative discourses and practices invested in language. The papers in this volume primarily use the methodology of discourse analysis and a range of tools and methods within this framework. The purpose is to shed light on how discourses inform preferences, behaviours and representations, towards the positioning of individuals in society, based on their respective gender and their individual status - whether an adult or a child. It is interesting to explore what is expected of the holders of these positions and whether they are able to confront and renegotiate their situation. The authors look into gendered childhood, analysing if differences can be found in so-called conservative and liberal discourses. The gender aspect of childhood and the resistance towards children’s expected positions interlinked to their gender is visible to diverse degrees in this selection of papers. The concept of social positioning due to one's gender is at the heart of this volume. Therefore, this Editorial forms a theoretical backstage for the volume of works included in the special post-conference issue of Society Register.
Schlagwörter:Kindheit; childhood; gender; Kind; child; Erwachsener; adult; Gleichstellung; affirmative action; family unit; ideology; political orientation; sociology of religion; power; social positioning
SSOAR Kategorie:Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Language and discourse in Nigerian education: historic implication of gender issues
Autor/in:
Offiong, Ekwutosi Essien
Quelle: Society Register, 3 (2019) 4, S 37-56
Inhalt: This paper examines the influence and power of language in education in Nigeria from the precolonial to colonial and post-colonial times. This is with regards to the effect of language on gender issues within the country. Nigeria, a country on the west coast of Africa is multi-ethnic with over 150 (one hundred and fifty) ethnic groups with their different indigenous languages and cultures. As a colony of the British, the Christian missionaries who first introduced western form of education in Nigeria used the British English language as a medium of communication and subsequently with the establishment of colonial administration in the country, English language was made the official language of the country. This paper contains a critical analysis of the use of English Language in the country and its implications on communication in social and economic interactions of individuals within the various communities across the country. It argues that the proliferation of the English language was through education of which the male gender benefitted more than their female counterparts due to the patriarchal dominance in the country. The data for the study was collated from random interviews and other written sources. The research discovered that the knowledge and ability to speak fluently and write the English language had a direct influence on the socio-political and economic status of individuals within the country. The women who benefitted from this were comparatively fewer than the men due to some prevailing conditions of what could be called in the present the subjugation of women the society. Critical discourse analysis is adopted for this study. It argues that English language dependency by Nigerians shows that forms of the colonial experience is still evident and these were all initiated during the past interactions with west through the transatlantic slave trade and colonial rule. This is because discourse as a social construct is created and perpetuated by the persons who have the language power and means of communication. The Nigerian family being of a conservative orientation derives its power directly from the father who is the patriarch of the family as obtained in the traditional set up of communities and the Nigerian society in general. This has grave effect on the opposite gender.
Schlagwörter:gender; Nigeria; Nigeria; communication; englische Sprache; Kommunikation; Diskurs; discourse; English language; Keywords; english language; power; education; gender; communication; discourse
SSOAR Kategorie:Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik, Makroebene des Bildungswesens, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Titelübersetzung:Gender, Generation, and Intersectionality
Autor/in:
Windheuser, Jeannette
Quelle: Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung / Discourse. Journal of Childhood and Adolescence Research, 14 (2019) 2, S 141-154
Inhalt: Der Beitrag untersucht ein der Intersektionalitätsforschung vorgelagertes Problem. Aus differenzfeministischer und erziehungswissenschaftlicher Theorieperspektive wird nach der phänomenspezifischen Form von Geschlecht und Generation gefragt. Auf dieser Grundlage werden zwei zentrale Prämissen der Intersektionalitätsforschung hinsichtlich einer darin wirksamen symbolischen Ordnung untersucht, die durch ihr Verhältnis zur Natur herausfordert.
Schlagwörter:Intersektionalität; intersectionality; gender-specific factors; Generation; generation; gender; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; geschlechtliche und generationale Differenz; Natur; Angewiesenheit; difference of gender and generation; nature; dependency
Machinery of Male Violence: Embodied Properties and Chronic Crisis amongst Partners in Vietnam
Autor/in:
Rydstrom, Helle
Quelle: ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 12 (2019) 2, S 167-185
Inhalt: This article takes the notion of crisis as a helpful analytical entry point to unfold the tem- poralities and modalities of the machinery of violence as manifested in men's abuse of their female partners in Vietnam. Based on ethnographic research I conducted over the years, the article argues that some types of crises might be episodic, and thus a bracketing of daily life, while others, such as intimate partner violence, might settle as a crisis of chronicity; as a condition of prolonged difficulties and pain that surreptitiously becomes a new 'normal'. The machinery of violence, the article shows, refers to processes of symbolic and material transformations of a targeted woman, shaped in accordance with a perpetrator's essentialist imaginations about her embodied properties (e.g., gender, sexuality, age, ethnicity, and bodyableness). Such violence is invigorated by a patrilineal organization of society and a systemic permissiveness to male-to-female abuse. A battered woman is confined to an interregnum; a space in which the laws of protection do not apply and male violence is perpetrated with impunity. Yet, men's violence against their female partners also is combatted and resisted in Vietnamese society.
To whom it may concern? Gründungsförderung und Gleichstellung an Schweizer Fachhochschulen
Titelübersetzung:To whom it may concern? Spin-off promotion and gender equality at Swiss universities of applied sciences
Autor/in:
Liebig, Brigitte; Schneider, Noemi
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 11 (2019) 3, S 100-115
Inhalt: Im Zuge der Reformen des Hochschulwesens gewinnt die Förderung von wissenschaftsbasierten Gründungen an Bedeutung. Erste Erhebungen zur Schweiz zeigen jedoch, dass Akademikerinnen deutlich seltener ausgründen als Akademiker. Das als "Leaky Pipeline" bezeichnete Phänomen ist auch im Bereich von Gründungsaktivitäten an Schweizer Fachhochschulen deutlich erkennbar. Anschließend an Perspektiven der Gender- und Hochschulforschung beleuchtet der Beitrag zentrale Voraussetzungen für Gründungsaktivitäten von Frauen an Schweizer Fachhochschulen. Empirische Grundlage bilden eine schriftliche Umfrage aus den Jahren 2017/18 an öffentlich-rechtlichen Fachhochschulen der Schweiz sowie Interviews mit Gleichstellungsbeauftragten und Gründungszentren dieser Hochschulen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen nicht nur, dass Wissenschaftlerinnen kaum als Zielgruppen der Gründungsförderung an Fachhochschulen erkannt werden, sondern dass auch kaum spezifische Unterstützungsmaßnahmen für Frauen existieren. Dabei ist das Bewusstsein für den Gender Gap im Bereich Gründen bis jetzt gering - dies gilt gleichermaßen für Gründungsverantwortliche wie für Gleichstellungs- und Diversitätsbeauftragte der Hochschulen.
LGBTIQ-Wähler*innen in Berlin und Wien: politische Präferenzen, Parteienwettbewerb und elektorale Resonanz
Titelübersetzung:LGBTIQ voters in Berlin and Vienna: political preferences, competition between political parties and electoral resonance
Autor/in:
Nève, Dorothée de; Ferch, Niklas
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 3, S 118-135
Inhalt: Die vorliegende explorative Studie widmet sich dem Wahlverhalten von LGBTIQ-Personen im Kontext der Abgeordnetenhauswahl in Berlin (2016) und der Gemeinderatswahl in Wien (2015). Untersucht wird erstens die queer-politische Agenda der Parteien und zweitens das Wahlverhalten von LGBTIQ, einer bislang in der Wahlforschung weitestgehend ignorierten Bevölkerungsgruppe. Der Vergleich der untersuchten Wahlprogramme zeigt, dass queer-politische Themen Marker für Differenz und Konkurrenz im Parteienwettbewerb darstellen. Die Ergebnisse der Onlinebefragung zeigen, dass die Methode eines selbstselektiven Samples geeignet ist, um die politischen Präferenzen von LGBTIQ-Personen zu untersuchen. Die Parteipräferenz für grüne Parteien ist sowohl in Berlin als auch in Wien ausgeprägt. Jenseits dessen gibt es indes in Berlin wie auch in Wien LGBTIQ-Personen, die rechtspopulistische Parteien und Positionen unterstützen.
Schlagwörter:Queer Studies; queer studies; Wahlforschung; election research; Österreich; Austria; Federal Republic of Germany; Geschlechterpolitik; gender policy; Parteipolitik; party politics; Wahlverhalten; voting behavior; Gender; gender; LGBTIQ
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Zur Produktivität intersektionaler und queertheoretischer Ansätze in der Modeforschung
Titelübersetzung:Intersectionality and queer theory as critical approaches in fashion studies
Autor/in:
Weilandt, Maria
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 3, S 12-23
Inhalt: Mode und Geschlecht sind innerhalb modischer Praktiken auf komplexe Art und Weise miteinander verbunden. In diesem Beitrag schlage ich vor, eine intersektionale und eine queertheoretische Perspektive in die Modeforschung zu integrieren, um der Ambivalenz und Hybridität modischer Praktiken methodisch zu begegnen. Dabei fasse ich zunächst Gender als interdependente Kategorie, die in sich bereits durch andere Kategorien konstruiert ist. Anhand zweier Beispiele, der modischen Stereotypisierungen dapper und DapperQ, skizziere ich beispielhaft, was eine solche Perspektive in der Modeforschung leisten kann. Dabei geht es exemplarisch darum, wie modische Gendernormen visuell und textuell konstruiert sind und wie sie, innerhalb queerer Praktiken, gestört bzw. dekonstruiert werden.
The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs
Titelübersetzung:Die Heimatvorstellung in einer Welt der Zirkulation: Dampfmotoren, Frauen und Migration im Lichte der Bhojpuri-Volkslieder
Autor/in:
Sinha, Nitin
Quelle: International Review of Social History, 63 (2018) 2, S 203-237
Inhalt: The historical juncture of the 1840s to 1860s witnessed three developments: first, the introduction of the new means of communication (steamships and railways); second, new industrial and plantation investments in and outside of India, creating demand for labour; and third, the expansion of a print culture that went beyond the urban elite domain to reflect the world of small towns and villages. In this constellation of social, economic, and technological changes, this article looks at the idea of home, construction of womanhood and the interlaced lifecycles of migrant men and non-migrant women in a period of Indian history marked by “circulation”. Moving away from the predominant focus on migrant men, the article attempts to recreate the social world of non-migrant women left behind in the villages of northern and eastern India. While engaging with the framework of circulation, the article calls for it to be redesigned to allow histories of mobility and immobility, male and female and villages and cities to appear in the same analytical field. Although migration has been reasonably well explored, the issue of marriage is inadequately addressed in South Asian migration studies. “Separated conjugality” is one aspect of this, and the displacement of young girls from their natal home to in-laws’ is another. Through the use of Bhojpuri folksongs, the article brings together migration and marriage as two important social events to understand the different but interlaced lifecycles of gendered (im)mobilities.
"Why all the fuss about practice theory?" Zum Verhältnis von Geschlechter- und Praxistheorie aus Sicht einer Historikerin
Titelübersetzung:"Why all the fuss about practice theory?" A historian's perspective on the relation between gender and practice theory
Autor/in:
Böth, Mareike
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 1, S 13-28
Inhalt: Aus geschichtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive beleuchtet der Aufsatz einerseits zentrale geschlechtertheoretische Konzepte ('doing gender', 'doing difference' bzw. Intersektionalität) als Beiträge zur Praxistheorie und arbeitet andererseits Impulse der aktuellen Praxeologie-Debatte für die Geschlechter- und Körpergeschichte heraus. Die wechselseitigen Potenziale von Geschlechter- und Praxistheorie werden anhand einer Analyse frühneuzeitlicher Körperpraktiken in den Briefen Liselottes von der Pfalz (1651-1722) aufgezeigt.
Inhalt: This article first revisits key concepts in gender studies ("doing gender", "doing difference" and "intersectionality") from a historical perspective, portraying them as crucial contributions to praxeology. Second, it draws on the impetus which practice theory can provide as regards the history of gender and the body. Based on an analysis of early modern bodily practices described in letters written by Elisabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatinate (1652-1722), the article demonstrates how gender theory and practice theory can enrich each other.