The aim of this seminar is to address and discuss how intersectionality can help us to explore how the markers of racialisation intersects with other markers such as gender, class, sexuality, nationality etc. within the context of Europe.
28.03.2023 kl. 13.30 - 16.00
Much has been said about the theoretical and methodological journey of intersectionality from the United States to Europe within feminist studies. A shift away from the intersection of race and gender in favor of focus on gender, ethnicity, and migration has taken place in the Nordic region, where the role of the categories ‘race’ and racialization have been neglected. However, during the last decade, we have witnessed a steady rise in critical studies on whiteness, racialization and racism within the Nordics across disciplines both within social science and humanities. In such studies intersectionality has both directly and indirectly guided these studies.
The aim of this seminar is to address and discuss how intersectionality can help us to explore how the markers of racialisation intersects with other markers such as gender, class, sexuality, nationality etc. within the context of Europe.
By stressing the empirical setting of Europe this seminar further discuss how the marker of race and racialized hierarchy, as one of the ‘original’ markers or hierarchies, has returned to intersectionality studies – just in another geopolitical setting. Thus, the seminar will ask: What kind of differences do we see when intersectionality travels? and is intersectionality still a useful analytical lens?
| 13.30 - 13.40 | Welcome by Marlene Spanger |
| 13.40 - 14.10 |
The travel of intersectionality and its challenges |
| 14.10-14.30 |
Who’s Afraid of “Race”? - Translational and conceptual challenges in Danish Intersectionality Work |
| 14.30 - 14.45 | Discussion |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Break |
| 15.00 - 15.20 | Female soldiers in the Danish Armed Forces Helene Pristed, senior researcher, Videnscenteret, Veterancenteret |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Racial hierarchy in the Danish labour market |
| 15.40 - 15.55 | Discussion |
| 15.55 - 16.00 | Wrapping up |
Please register via this link no later than 23 March 2023.
If you have any questions regarding the seminar, please contact Marlene Spanger at spanger@dps.aau.dk.
Global Refugee Studies Research Group, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University
Aalborg University Copenhagen, A. C. Meyers Vænge 10, room: 3.084A, 2450 Copenhagen SV
06.06.2023 - 07.06.2023
Join the Center for Displacement, Migration, and Integration (MIX) inter-disciplinary conference on June 6-7 in Nordkraft, Aalborg. This time – leave the academic paper reading in the hindsight, and join the conversations and open discussions about how service design, health services, urban planning, and energy planning affect the future of migration.
15.06.2023 at 12.00 PM - 16.06.2023 at 15.00 PM
In this two-day workshop, taking place in Aalborg on the 15th and 16th of June 2023, we would like to discuss the numerous contemporary breaks and continuities in the meaning of citizenship, especially – but not exclusively – under the impact of recent events.