CentreLGS PECANS International Workshops and Network Development Programme
Lead Research Organisation:
Keele University
Department Name: Inst for Law Politics and Justice
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Craig Elaine
(2011)
Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity
Dara Purvis (Author)
(2011)
A female disease : the unintentional gendering of fibromyalgia social security claims
in Texas journal of women and the law
Karaian L
(2012)
Lolita speaks: 'Sexting,' teenage girls and the law
in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal
Lenon S
(2012)
Hidden Hegemonies of the Rainbow: The Racialised Scaffolding of Forced Marriage and Civil Partnership in the UK
in Journal of Intercultural Studies
McGlynn, Clare; Munro, Vanessa E.
(2010)
Rethinking Rape Law: International and Comparative Perspectives
Oliver M
(2012)
The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief GENDERING THE INTERSECTIONS OF NEO-CONSERVATISM AND NEO-LIBERALISM
in International Feminist Journal of Politics
Otomo Y
(2011)
Law and the Question of the (Nonhuman) Animal
in Society & Animals
Ummni Khan (Author)
(2011)
Running in(to) the family : 8 short stories about sex workers, clients, husbands, and wives
in American University journal of gender, social policy & the law
| Title | Equality claims and population control |
| Description | Critical Race Theory generally and intersectionality theory in particular have provided scholars and activists with clear accounts of how the legal approaches to oppression that have been taken up through the anti-discrimination principle have failed to sufficiently change conditions for those facing the most violent manifestations of settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and xenophobia. These interventions have exposed how discrimination principle's reliance on individual harm, intentionality, and universalized categories of identity has made it ineffective at eradicating these forms of harm and violence and has obscured the actual operations of systems of meaning and control that produce maldistribution and targeted violence. This paper follows this line of thinking an additional step to focus on the racialized-gendered distribution schemes that operate at the population level through programs that declare themselves race and gender neutral but are founded in the production and maintenance of race and gender categories as vectors for distributing life chances. In the context of intensifying criminal and immigration enforcement and wealth disparity, it is essential to turn our attention to what Foucault called "state racism"--the operation of population-level programs that target some for increased security and life chances while marking others for insecurity and premature death. This paper looks at how social movements resisting intersectional state violence are formulating demands (like prison abolition and an end to immigration enforcement) that exceed the narrow confines of the discrimination principle and take administrative systems as adversaries in ways that pull the nation-state form itself into crisis. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/31 |
| Description | This grant developed PECANS, an international network of postgraduate researchers and early career scholars working in the field of Law, Gender and Sexuality. |
| Exploitation Route | PECANS continues to operate, as a self-supporting network, through an email list, with a steering committee (as established during the ESRC funded period) taking responsibility for organising one or two events each year. Facebook is used to keep the network growing (see https://www.facebook.com/groups/248930631931180/?fref=ts) . |
| Sectors | Education |
| URL | http://www.clgs-pecans.org.uk/ |
| Description | Social impact on the issue of teenage 'sexting' resulted from the following publication by Lara Karaian (PECANS visiting fellow, 2010): Karaian, L (2012) "Lolita Speaks: 'Sexting', Teenage Girls and the Law", Crime, Media, Culture 8(1): 57-73. Early versions of this paper were presented in a work-in-progress session at Keele University during Karaian's visiting fellowship, and a session at the PECANS 2010 'Transgressing Power(s)' workshop in London. Social impact on the issue of transphobia resulted from Jemma Tosh's work, presented at the PECANS 2011 'Interrogating (In)equality' workshop in Vancouver. As a result of her work on the criminal law response to teenage sexting Karaian was asked to be the keynote of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa's (EFS) annual General Members meeting. EFS offer a variety of different programs and services to provide women with confidential and supportive living and learning environments. Since Karaian's talk, the Elizabeth Fry Society has gone on to inform youth groups on the issue of 'sexting' and its legal regulation. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Education,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal |
| Description | 'Interrogating (in)equality' : an interdisciplinary postgraduate & early career scholars conference in the broad area of law, gender and sexuality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Much law, gender and sexuality research deals with issues of equality: arguing for legal and social equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer people; interrogating the gendered dimensions of exploitation, violence or crime; and understanding experiences of regulation and subjugation are all major dimensions of research in gender, sexuality and law. But what do we mean when we talk of inequality? The aim of this postgraduate and early career scholars' conference is to discuss themes and questions such as: • How do intersections of gender, sexuality, race, religion, disability and class work to confound, support, challenge, frustrate or reinforce experiences of (in)equality? • Does the fight for equality mean fighting for 'inclusion'? • Is there a relationship between equality in law and social justice in practice? • How do people experience and/or challenge inequality inside and outside the law? • Do legal spaces accommodate people's experiences of difference and equality? • In the centenary year of International Women's Day, are "women's issues" still politically urgent? • Can academic research that champions equality for some result in silencing the causes of others? academic impact and networking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Bodies of law : law and the body |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Law mediates various power structures and is interwoven with numerous other knowledges that participate in the construction, normalization and regulation of bodies, such as medicine, social media, religion and the nation-state. Numerous feminist legal scholars have commented on law's intimate relationship to, for example, medical discourses, arguing that the shape of legal power has changed to more regulatory and disciplinary forms. Inevitably law's relationship to bodies/states of embodiment alters as it takes on these increasingly pervasive roles. One might conclude that the notion of a space where the law will not intervene is a liberal fantasy, out of step with the reality of law's operations. How, then, should law be evaluated and/or harnessed? Our interdisciplinary one-day workshop aims to cover these and other issues pertaining to law and the body. academic impact |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | PECANS reading group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A reading group with Professor Margaret Davies, to discuss a series of short articles considering what it means to undertake feminist research today. academic impact |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Sexuality and legal transformation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An interdisciplinary postgraduate & early career scholars conference April 8th & 9th, 2011, Westminster University, London, UK Legal and legislative change does not occur in a vacuum. This two_day postgraduate and early career scholars' workshop seeks to explore contexts under which legal change relating to sexuality and gender occurs. It also seeks to address means by which issues of sexuality, law, bodies and power interact, react against or mutually reinforce each other in the context of legal and activist discourse and how this process can impact upon wider social structures. The workshops aim is to provide a supportive and friendly environment for postgraduates and early career scholars to present their work, meet fellow researchers and benefit from interdisciplinary exchange within the excellent surroundings of the University of Westminster, London. The workshop features papers that focus on the context of legal transformation, drawing upon both global and local qualitative understandings of 'transformation'. These understandings are informed by and drawn from the broad social conceptualisations of, respectively, women, masculinity, rape, HIV and genital cutting. Also considered is the 'passing' of the law - evoking both the legislative and queer understandings of passing - in the context of issues ranging from marriage to lap dancing to education. The workshop sought to engage with LGBTOthers and the triangulation of these individuals, the family and the law; with particular reference to the recent and controversial areas of adoption, section 28 and age. It also considers what happens after law and questions the role of activism in the struggle of LGBT individuals with law. In addition Matthew Weait, reader in socio-legal studies and assistant Dean at Birkbeck University will be giving the keynote address entitled 'Making a Difference, Sustaining Difference: Identity and Re-Invention in Legal Scholarship and Activism'. Academic impact, especially skills and networking for early career scholars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Time for reflection? : considering the 'past', 'present', and 'future' of feminist legal scholarship : a roundtable discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In his "Theses On the Philosophy of History" (1940), Walter Benjamin called for a blasting open of the continuum of history. His call was one that would bring into question teleological narratives of progress, and urge a radical rethinking of the concept of the present. Similarly, Judith Jack Halberstam considers the ability of new temporal logics to open up new life narratives and alternative relations to time and space (2005). Though differently conceptualized, these insights from Benjamin and Halberstam make poignant interventions on the pitfalls of unreflective time, and the political possibilities of imagining a new temporality. What do such insights mean for feminist legal studies? Has an orientation towards a "future" feminist ideal been productive in feminist legal scholarship and activism? How does your own work engage with temporality? Does a reconceptualization of time offer any insight for your work, or for feminist legal projects more generally? Discussion of these questions intends to interrogate what is often taken for granted as "progress" within the field, and to consider the benefits and drawbacks of thinking feminist research and activism inside or outside (or indeed of deploying this dualism in the first place) the domain of chronological time. Roundtable Participants: Brenna Bhandar (Law, Kent), Julia Chryssostalis (Law, Westminster), Elena Loizidou (Law, Birkbeck), and Janice Richardson (Law, Exeter) Chair: Sarah Keenan (Law, Oxford Brookes) Panel Organiser: Stacy Douglas (Law, Kent) Academic impact only |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/16/85 |
| Description | Transgressing power(s) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Power has long been a central problematic in gender, sexuality and law scholarship, with a myriad of intersecting theoretical and methodological questions seeking to understand power in society. Yet the twin problematic of transgression and power continues to hold relevance for gender and sexuality scholarship. As power relations shift and change over time, different forms of transgressive, subversive and resistant practices emerge, shaped by activism and the necessities of the moment. The aim of this postgraduate and early career scholars' conference is to discuss, in light of your own research, themes and questions such as: How does the historical moment in which power relationships exist interact with the understandings of the exercise, limitations and potential of the exercise of power? In what ways do transgressive, subversive and resistant activist practices feed into academic scholarship on power relations? Have gender/sexuality/feminist scholars been too focused on the margins, therefore underestimating the significance of mainstream or hegemonic life in efforts to advance social change? Academic impact only |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |