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?