Dear colleagues/Liebe Kolleg_innen,
At the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, we are organizing an online seminar series on COVID-19 during the fall. We are looking for contributions for that series and hope that we get together a group of researchers from gender studies who will highlight the necessity to consider gender studies research, knowledge, and critique during these times of crisis. See the call or link below for more details.
Am Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung in Karlstad organisieren wir in diesem Herbst eine Online-Seminar-Serie zum Thema COVID-19. Dazu möchten wir gerne Beiträge einladen, die die Wichtigkeit von Geschlechterforschung in Krisenzeiten deutlich machen. Mehr Information finden Sie im Call oder unter dem angegebenen Link.
Your colleagues from Karlstad/Die Kolleg_innen aus Karlstad
The politics and intersections of COVID-19: critical perspectives from gender studies
Call for contributions to an open online seminar series during the fall semester of 2020, organized by the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University
The current global pandemic has brought with it many challenges. Most obviously, the costs are seen in the lives lost and the health, emotional, social, and economic challenges that many people face around the globe due to the pandemic. While some also point to positive side effects of COVID-19 such as stark reductions in CO2-emissions, the pandemic is more likely to intensify already existing (social) inequalities than to alleviate them. This is most noticeable when it comes to health. Older people and people with pre-existing conditions are more likely to die from the virus. At the same time, according to public statistics men fall victim to COVID-19 more often than women. What is more, as more knowledge emerges about those infected with and dying from COVID-19, well-known intersections of gender, class, and race appear to determine who will survive this pandemic and who won’t. Socially, the pandemic also acerbates existing inequalities. In professions heavily exposed to infection risks, such as healthcare or daycare workers or teachers, employees are overwhelmingly women. In professions hardest hit economically, people in the lower income ranges feel the consequences by getting laid off and losing their income.
This is paired with racial discrimination. After the American president called Corona „the Chinese virus“, people identified as Chinese by others experienced an increase in racial discrimination in public in the US and Europe. At the same time, prejudices against racial minorities also gained traction in China where Black Africans, after reports of them supposedly bringing Corona-infections back to China, were discriminated against because of their skin color. Not least, the current pandemic also points to the violent heritage of colonialism, empire, and capitalism, with countries in the Global North paying themselves out of the direst consequences while at the same time being unwilling to share the financial burden of countries from the Global South. All this begs the question how social inequalities structure the current crisis and how the crisis will come to shape social inequalities in the future.
This online seminar series wants to tackle these questions. We are looking for contributions that reflect critically on the social consequences of COVID-19 from a gender studies perspectives, exploring the diverse politics and intersections of COVID-19. Contributions should consist of 30-45 minutes presentations followed by discussions that will be held online in a digital meeting room organized by the Centre for Gender Studies at Karlstad University during the fall of 2020. Contributors will be remunerated with 2000 SEK for their involvement and a publication of all contributions is planned at the end of the semester, either as a special issue or an edited collection. Abstracts of max 300 words and a short author bio should be send to sebastian.mohr@kau.se<mailto:sebastian.mohr@kau.se> until the 31st of May 2020. Contributors will be notified about their acceptance shortly thereafter.
You also find this call under the following link: www.kau.se/centrum-genusforskning/aktuellt/aktuella-evenemang
Sebastian Mohr
Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies
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Editor at Kvinder, Køn & Forskning/Women, Gender & Research<tidsskrift.dk/KKF>
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