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Women and Politics in Asia

The conference series โWomen and Politics in Asiaโ started 2003 in Sweden, at Halmstad University, and was continued 2004 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and 2005 in Islamabad, Pakistan. In 2009, the fourth international conference of its kind will be convened by the Institute of Social Science at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.

Building upon โWomen and Politics in Asia 2005: Discovering the Gender Face of Politicsโ, Women and Politics in Asia: A Springboard for Democracy? aims to reflect upon the links between

democracy and the feminisation of the halls of political power
gender and (power) politicsgender relations and gender ideologies and their impact on specific socio-political systems, modes of interaction / participation and citizenship discourses
gendered forms of political participation and agency

within Greater Asia in an integrated comparative perspective. This region of the world is interesting for students of democracy for a number of reasons: Many Asian countries have acceded to different forms of democratic government in the past few years while other countries belong to the group of fragile states, struggling with instable or autocratic governments, heterogeneous gender and identity politics and/or with internally contested democratisation/liberalisation and state-building projects resulting in distinctive gendered outcomes. The vast majority boast extremely diverse populations, which generates enormous challenges for the establishment of balanced political representation and participation; many countries have adopted affirmative action measures to increase the representation of women and ethnic groups in their parliaments; many countries have elected women to the highest positions of executive and legislative power; finally, many countries are confronted with national and international initiatives for gender mainstreaming, women machineries and progressive gender policy regimes as part of a good governance concept of ODA donor countries or lobbying from (trans)national womenโs movements and non-governmental organizations throughout the region.

Conference Organizers:

Professor Dr. Claudia Derichs

Director of the Institute of Social Science, University of Hildesheim

derichs@uni-hildesheim.de

Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg dos Ramos Pinรฉu

Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Hildesheim

andrea.fleschenberg@uni-hildesheim.de

Contact Address

University of Hildesheim

Institute of Social Science

Marienburger Platz 22

D-31141 Hildesheim Germany

Email: wpa_2009@yahoo.com

The conference is organized in cooperation with the Heinrich-Bรถll-Foundation and with the support of the University of Hildesheim, ZIF - Centre for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies at the University of Hildesheim and the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony*.

For further information, please read more from : http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/de/35265.htm

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Source: http://www.awid.org/eng/Women-in-Action/Events-around-the-world/Conference10
When: 28/6/2009