Whose Rights, Which Rights?

Apr 13 2022 8

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Debates about abortion rights and the marriage for all or the hostility towards feminists and gender studies are making it undeniable – women’s and gender rights have increasingly been called into question and attacked. The podcast “Whose Rights, Which Rights?” takes up these conflicts over gender, equality and the formulation and implementation of legal claims. In each episode we take a closer look at one aspect of the topic, such as fundamentalist religion, the “care crisis” or growing right-wing populism. The podcast is based on a cooperation between the Hertz 87.9 campus radio and the research group “Global Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld, where 20 scientists from different disciplines deal with this topic. Based on the current state of the debate, we will explore the respective research area of the fellows in each episode and ask more precisely how and why women’s and gender rights are being attacked.

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Episode 10: Global Contestations of Gender Rights - a conclusion

Apr 13 2022 23 mins

To conclude our podcasts, Katharina Ussling once again talks with two of the research group leaders - Dr. Alexandra Scheele and Prof. Julia Roth - about the results of the research group "Global Contestations of Women's and Gender Rights" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Bielefeld University. She asks about the results of the joint work, the importance of inter

Episode 9: Radical Theory of Democracy: A Perspective to Understand the Contestations of Gender Rights

Apr 10 2022 34 mins

Already in other episodes of the podcast we have talked about how democratic principles are questioned and the representation and participation of individual groups is restricted. This is the case, for example, in Hungary when the government questions equality goals or puts massive pressure on the LGBTIQ community and makes them invisible. But it is also problematic when democratic

Episode 8 - Covid-19 state responses as contestation within global capitalism and the multi-layered meaning of social reproduction

Dec 08 2021 47 mins

One topic is all over the News since the beginning of 2020: the Covid-19 crisis. The global approach to societal, economic and social consequences varies widely. But one thing is clear: those who are already disadvantaged will be even more so: at home, more women are once again taking care of children and the household, people in underpaid jobs and especially in nursing - gender in

Episode 7 - Post-colonial perspectives on women´s and gender rights

Dec 06 2021 21 mins

With his work Orientalism in 1978, some would say, Edward Said laid the foundation for today's post-colonialism and provided many linking points for academic and social debates. How important postcolonial perspectives are, we see not only in academic research, but also when the news reports that statues of colonial rulers and slave traders are sunk in harbor basins.In this episode

Episode 6 - Women's rights in Nigeria

Aug 29 2021 26 mins

What happens when powerful people, companies and politicians exploit a country because it is rich in oil and gas? What does the fight for women’s rights look like when education is a scarce resource? This episode is about a very specific field study in Nigeria. Katharina Ußling talks about contestations when it comes to natural resource governance in the Niger Delta communities

Episode 5 - Right-wing populism and the anti-gender movement

Aug 06 2021 42 mins

Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Victor Orban in Hungary or Sebastian Kurz in Austria – countries all over the world are still or again governed by right-wing conservative to right-wing populist politicians. But right-wing populist views and gender-hostile ideologies can also be found in our entire environment, among friends, at work, or in the family. How does the anti-gender discourse

Epsiode 4 - How are gender and reproductive rights questioned today?

Jun 14 2021 31 mins

Only 55% of all women worldwide are physically self-determined. Almost half of all women cannot decide whether to have sex, have children or seek medical care. And we’re not even talking about LGBTQIA rights yet. Is a dystopian world à la Margaret Atwood’s “The handmaid’s tale” more conceivable than we would like to imagine? What influence do right-wing conservative and

Episode 3 - Religious and secular women´s movements

Jun 04 2021 45 mins

Women and gender movements exist all over the world, and while they often fight for the same goals, there is no one feminist movement or the one feminism. In this episode we talk about the relationship between religious and secular women´s movements in Pakistan and the countries of North Africa. Katharina Ußling talks to Prof. Fatima Sadiqi and Prof. Shirin Zubair about the influ

Episode 2 - Feminist critiques of religion

May 19 2021 27 mins

Feminist and scientific critiques of religion are important for different reasons. In this episode, we clarify why with Prof. Dr. Ina Kerner. Katharina Ußling also discusses with Ina Kerner the appropriation of criticism of religion by right-wing groups, especially the AfD, and the mixing of feminism with anti-Muslim racism.guest: Prof. Dr. Ina Kerner music: Broke für Free – Me

Episode 1 - Introducing the research group

May 07 2021 44 mins

In the first episode we introduce the interdisciplinary research group of the ZiF and its convenors. We discuss the three main research topics: gender division of labor and care work, authoritarian forms of religion and their instrumentalization as well as the gendering of citizenship and the questioning of sexual rights.guests: PD Dr. Alexandra Scheele, Prof. Heidemarie Winkel, Pr