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This conference addresses the changing and multi-faceted
relationship between the nation-state and feminist legal
theory. In the context of neo-liberal and globalising tendencies,
where the nation-state is perceived as having declining
relevance, this conference critically addresses the impact
of geography and politics on feminist legal theory.
This event includes the special
stream ‘Equality and the State’, funded
by the British Academy and the Feminism and Legal Theory
Project (Emory University, USA), and organized by the FLT
project and Keele Law School (UK). This stream is open to
attend to all conference participants, but no longer taking
any papers. Those giving papers in this stream should register
for the whole conference.
Exploring:
- The territorial roots and origins of feminist legal
theories
- How geo-political histories have shaped the development
of feminist equality theory and practice
- Whether feminist legal theory can productively cross
national and regional boundaries, and the problems of
implanting perspectives from elsewhere, particularly when
they come from regions with very different geo-political
contexts and histories
- The generating of new ‘indigenous’ forms
of feminist legal and political theory, particularly in
the South and East
- The ways in which different, critical, feminist perspectives
imagine both the nation-state and strategies for its reform
or transformation
- The space beyond the nation-state - the challenges posed
by trans-national and global feminist legal scholarship
- The contribution legal pluralism might make to a less-state
centred feminist legal theory
NB: Registration is now closed for this event.
This event is supported by the British Academy and in collaboration
with the Feminism and Legal Theory Project. |
