Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) Congress – September 9 to 11, 2024
Together with colleagues from the Gender Research Committee of the SSA we are organizing a panel on (De-) Gendering vulnerabilities.
Gender studies have always been concerned with how vulnerability is intertwined with gender. Looking back at historical developments in sociological research on gender, concepts of vulnerability have changed. While the focus was initially on socio-structural inequalities, which provided an important contribution to making gender differences visible, new concepts emerged focusing more on how vulnerability is linked to a collectively female experience of inequality. The planned workshop will critically discuss the relationship between gender and vulnerabilities in different research contexts. To what extent is gender (ir)relevant with regard to vulnerable groups and how does the category influence the perception and construction of vulnerabilities in the first place (e.g., single parents, employees in the low-wage sector, sex workers, welfare recipients)? How do organizations or national contexts (re)poduce vulnerabilities and how is gender linked to it (e.g., science, school, labor market, social work)?
Full call for papers: https://www.fhnw.ch/plattformen/sgs-kongress/call-for-papers/
Please submit your abstract of maximum 2000 characters by 5 January 2024 to stephanie.steinmetz at unil.ch.
Organizers: Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne, Quartier UNIL-Mouline), Nathalie Pasche (Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW), Christina Bornatici (FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences), Irene Kriesi (Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training, SFUVET), Lucia Lanfranconi (Bern University of Applied Sciences & Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts); Isabelle Zinn (Bern University of Applied Sciences & University of Lausanne), Martina Peitz (Independent researcher).