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Monday, 10 March 2008 |
This working group is directed at strengthening the links and increasing the synergy between teaching and research in the field of geography, architecture, psychology, sociology and history that focuses on urban space and gender. It is a continuation of Activity 1B2 (Gender, Diversity And (Urban) Space) in Athena2. The aim of this activity is to produce a module on MA level on Gender/Sexuality, Diversity and (urban) space in a European Perspective. In the final stages of Athena II a draft “prototype” module was developed. The subject of this module is the role of spatiality and urbanity in the construction of gender and sexual identities and vice-versa. It takes inot account the new interdisciplinary research in this field. This thematic area explores the ways that the sexual identities are constructed and performed across space, issues on citizenship and migration, violence in the city and at home, prostitution etc. In this approach gender/sexuality is treated not as a separate category but is approached from an “intersectional” point of view, in which gender interacts with other axes of difference and power. The group will cooperate with WG2 on social work.
Furthermore this group will continue to scan the field in order to keep an updated collection of similar activities in related fields inside and outside of academia (http://www.athena2.org/1b2/all_courses.php)
The work of this group is located in Output Area I: Curriculum development: forging links between education and research in a European dimension. |
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