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Gendering Asia Network Conference in Akureyri, Iceland, 1-3 June 2007

Gendered Modernity and Vulnerabilities in Asia

This conference addresses gendered modernity and vulnerabilities as they unfold in Asia in a context of global processes of change. The central theme is how men and women – either as individuals or groups – are positioned and also position themselves in contexts of change.

Modernization processes in Asia result in rapid changes of practices and meanings. Money, people and information are coursing through the region at rates never experienced before. Information, new knowledge and ideas are created within the region and introduced from outside the region. In creating change and in coping with the consequences of change men and women use a variety of resources: social, cultural, physical, economic and political. Their access to and ways of using these affect how they shape and deal with change and their capacity to deal with marginalization and/or vulnerable positions.

Call for papers

We invite papers that address questions such as:


• How are people positioned and how do they position themselves and use material and cultural resources to shape, become part of or survive within modernity?

 
• What vulnerabilities are involved and exposed, in what ways are they gendered and how are they addressed?


• How are the processes of modernity themselves gendered?

 
• How are effects of the processes gendered?

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Josephine Chuen-juei Ho

Professor and Chair, Department of English

President, Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan

Coordinator, Center for the Study of Sexualities

National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan


"Bidding for Vulnerability: Asian Modernity and Its Emergent Gender Stance"

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Naila Kabeer

Fellow, Professorial Fellow

Institute of Development Studies

University of Sussex, UK

"Reconfigurations of Marriage and Markets in the Context of Globalisation: Reflections on the Asian Context"

Sponsors
Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies - ASÍS
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Centre for Asian Studies - Göteborg University
Icelandic Ministry of Social Affairs
Clara Lachmanns Fond
Icelandair
Town of Akureyri
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