Believing/ Moralising/ Reasoning

Coordinators

Serawit B. Debele, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany, debele[at]mmg.mpg.de

Katarina Lončarević, University of Belgrade, Serbia, katarina.loncarevic[at]fpn.bg.ac.rs

C. Laura Lovin, University of Strathclyde, UK, carmenlaura.lovin[at]strath.ac.uk

Adriana Zaharijević, University of Belgrade, Serbia, zaharijevic[at]instifdt.bg.ac.rs

Feminist research in various disciplines and feminist theory as a heterogeneous research field have held ambiguous positions in relation to the theoretical mainstream. Being the 'other', being at the margin, being subjugated but rebellious knowledges, feminist theories have always challenged dominant research paradigms and epistemic, political and moral horizons. Keeping in mind the most important contributions of feminist research – extending the domain of research topics, moving beyond mainstream methodologies, establishing new methods, contextualizing so-called 'abstract' concepts, categories and discourses, and encouraging cross-cultural gender-sensitive feminist research – the stream Believing/Moralising/Reasoning will explore recent feminist forms of research into epistemic, moral and political norms by focusing on the following themes:

feminist knowledge 'production' in an era of neoliberalism within and outside the EU

new terrains of feminist research and theory as rebellion against hegemonic dominant (conservative) discourses; how do such feminist studies and knowledge challenge dominant research paradigms?

feminist contributions to repositioning political, public and policy debates around the dispossessions and precariousness of contemporary migrants and refugees

feminists in search of transnational modes of politics and knowledge 'production' against neoliberal hegemony

changing of political and moral discourses in the wake of neoconservativism in Europe

the question of whether the fields of gender studies and feminist knowledge production are still considered 'subjugated' knowledges within academic discourses, as well as how these processes of knowledge 'production' manifest themselves in neoliberal university settings

the inclusion of affective experiences in feminist research: contemporary topics, (un)anticipated knowledge effects, and political potentials

from the personal-subjective to historical and geopolitical contextualization in believing/moralising/reasoning

feminist reasoning about secular and non-secular truths

post-truth societies and the relationship between believing and reasoning in post-truth societies

challenging monolithic views on religion through feminist scholarship on religious practices, women, gender, equality, and social justice

everyday religion and feminist methodologies: the roles and functions of everyday religious belief and spirituality in people’s lives

conservative and fundamentalist forms of religion: gender, sexualities, family, morality, cultural difference formations and contestation on the contemporary religio-political scene.

Streams:

1. Remembering/Representing/Signifying

2. Destructing/Reconciling/Transforming

3. Teaching/Learning/Facilitating

4. Legislating/Politicising/Institutionalising

5. Networking/Solidarising/Bridging

6. Playing/Watching/Observing

7. Embodying/Performing/Affecting

8. Investigating/Analysing/Measuring

9. Healing/Coping/Caring

10. Believing/Moralising/Reasoning

11. Working/Struggling/Organizing

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