[Commlist] CFP - Feminist alliances: the discourses, practices and politics of solidarity among inequalities

updated call for papers for the conference on Feminist Alliances which 
will now be held on March 7, 2019

(please note the change of date from March 8th).

Keynote speakers: Donatella della Porta, Myra Marx Ferree, Isabelle 
Engeli, Chiara Saraceno, Marta Rawluszko and Mieke Verloo.

The deadline to send abstracts has been postponed to January 7th, 2019.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Feminist alliances: the discourses, practices and 
politics of solidarity among inequalities

International Conference, 7 March 2019, Department of Social and 
Political Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence,

Organizers: Donatella della Porta, Rossella Ciccia, Elena Pavan

Keynote speakers: Donatella della Porta, Isabelle Engeli, Myra Marx 
Ferree, Marta Rawłuszko, Chiara Saraceno, Mieke Verloo

Feminist movements have a long history of building alliances across 
social divisions of class, race, ethnicity, age, disability, and 
sexuality. These alliances have taken different forms ranging from the 
adoption of intersectional strategies within organizations, to staging 
coordinated campaigns, and the creation of advocacy and political 
coalitions at national and international levels. Such instances of 
collaboration strengthen the fight against all inequalities and have the 
potential to breed inclusive transformative projects. Nonetheless, the 
development of collaborative strategies among inequality-based 
organizations and political actors has been uneven across contexts and 
arenas and constantly endangered by the possibility of the exclusion of 
particular inequalities and dynamics of competition and conflict among 
groups.

The making of coalitions across inequalities and their political impacts 
is shaped by a complex range of factors. In recent years, a series of 
different crises– from the financial crash of 2008 to the refugee crisis 
and the rise of anti-politics, populist, racist and anti-gender 
mobilizations – have resulted in new threats and opportunities for 
solidarity among social movements, organizations and political actors 
representing different inequalities. Against this background, this 
conference focuses on the role played by discourses, practices and 
politics in the construction and political consequences of feminist 
alliances with inequalities defined by class, race/ethnicity, 
citizenship, age, disability and sexuality. We aim, in particular, to 
further discussion on intersectional feminist solidarity in political 
arenas such as 1) welfare state politics and policies; 2) knowledge 
production and the media; 3) civil society and grassroots politics, and 
4) the politics of space and the geographical structuring of 
inequalities. We welcome empirical or theoretical contributions which 
address one or more of the following issues:

1. What new goals and projects do coalitions among inequalities produce? 
How do we assess these goals from a normative and intersectionality 
perspective? Which gender equality principles are inclusive of other 
inequalities?
2. What forms have alliances between gender and other inequalities 
taken? Around which issues are alliances more likely to coalesce? Which 
strategies are adopted to build connections across issues and groups? 
When do groups support policies which do not benefit them directly?
3. What are the factors fostering or hindering coalitions across 
inequalities? What is the role played by issue framing, the use of media 
and digital communication technologies, resources, organizational forms, 
counter-movements, policy legacies, political institutions and the 
broader configurations of polities?
4. What are the outcomes of alliances between inequalities? What is the 
link between the forms and the composition of alliances and their 
outcomes? What other alliances and conditions are necessary for 
coalitions to influence politics and produce policy impacts?

Please send a 500 words abstracts to Rossella Ciccia 
((rossella.ciccia /at/ sns.it)) and Elena Pavan ((elena.pavan /at/ unitn.it)) by 
December 30th, 2018.
A selection of submissions to the conference will be invited to form the 
basis for a special issue to be published in an international leading 
journal.
Schedule
7 January 2018 Submission of abstracts
15 January 2019: Notification of acceptance
20 February 2019: Circulation of papers
7 March 2019: Conference at Palazzo Strozzi, Scuola Normale Superiore in 
Florence
31 May 2019: Submission of special issue proposal gathering selected papers

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