Workshop on Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender

2010 Call for Applications: Workshop Fellows
Workshop on Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender (July 19 -August 6, 2010)
Organizers will cover all the costs of participation (travel, lodging, meals, daily stipend, and materials) for up to 23 qualified applicants (20 African, 3 U.S.) with support from a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a private philanthropy in the United States. The working language of the workshop is English. Professional fluency in English is absolutely required.
The workshop leaders are Dr. Gretchen Bauer (Department of Political Science, University of Delaware, USA), Dr. Aili Mari Tripp (Department of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), and Dr. Shireen Hassim (Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa).
Program announcements, the 2010 Application Form, and more information about the workshop can be found online at the APSA Africa Workshops project website, www.apsanet.org/africaworkshops. The application deadline is April 2, 2010.
Participants
The workshop is targeted principally at university and college faculty in the social sciences residing in Africa, who have completed their Ph.D. and are in the early stages of their academic career. Up to three U.S. advanced Ph.D. students will also be accepted. All workshop fellows must be engaged actively in an empirical research project in political science or an area of inquiry related to politics. Fellows should be working on a manuscript, paper, book chapter, or article that can be developed during the workshop into an eventual article-length publication.
Workshop Theme
The theme of the workshop is Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender. The workshop will attempt to situate the recent fast-paced changes in Africa regarding women, gender and politics within a broad comparative context. The workshop will explore six subthemes, two during each week of the workshop as follows:
Women and Citizenship: women’s rights as human rights; human capabilities approaches; formal vs. substantive rights; sameness vs. difference approaches to equality; tension between cultural rights and women’s rights; debates on state responsibility to citizens; feminist critiques of citizenship theory; motherhood and citizenship.
Engendering Institutions: women and political representation in legislatures and executives; women’s rights in constitutional and legal reform; women in local government and decentralization; the state and gender mainstreaming.
Women’s Collective Mobilization: women’s movements as social movements in global perspective; African women’s movements in historical perspective; African feminisms and transnational feminisms and related topics.
Gender and Conflict: women and war and peacemaking; women in reconstruction and rebuilding; women as refugees and internally displaced people; as well as women and gender based violence and rape.
Gender and Democratization: the role of women’s movements in democratic transition and consolidation; why non-democratic regimes may advance women’s rights; and the impact of democracy on women’s rights.
Gender and Identity: topics such as intersectionality; ethnicity, class and sexual orientation; and women, gender and sexualities as contested categories.
Applications
Applications for participation in the workshop should be sent to the American Political Science Association electronically by April 2, 2010; please email applications directly to africaworkshops@apsanet.org.  The final list of selected Workshop Fellows will be announced in April.
Applications must be in English and include:
1.    The completed application form.
2.    A detailed, recent curriculum vita/resume.
3.    A 500-word description of the applicant's current research interests, how these relate to the workshop theme, and describes the empirical focus of the applicant's research and current status of the applicant's research project.
4.    A 5-10 page written document that is part of the applicant's on-going research project.  This can be a work-in-progress that is part of a paper, article, or chapter, and should tell the reader about the empirical and the theoretical/conceptual interests of the author.
5.    Two letters of reference on official letterhead and scanned as electronic files. If the applicant is a graduate student, one letter should be a letter of introduction from the applicant's supervising professor. If the applicant is a researcher or faculty member, the letters can be from a former dissertation supervisor, a colleague or collaborator in the applicant's home institution or elsewhere, a university official, or an employer.
For questions contact us at africaworkshops@apsanet.org or call Helena Saele at (202)483-2512.
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