Mersin (Turkey), 20-23 March 2013
This workshop aims to critically explore women’s changing status
and role in the New Middle East. The launch of the United Nations Millennium
Project in 2000 led to most Arab countries adopting ambitious targets for the
empowerment of women in all fields of society. This, together with globalization
processes, the Arab Spring and pressures for new forms of governance, social and
democratic reform has heightened the need to assess women’s current role in
shaping the development of the region. While it is acknowledged that current
revolutionary pressures have heightened debates about inequalities, poverty and
social exclusion, and that women featured prominently among the masses of people
who took to the streets during the Arab Spring, concerns are growing that
previously institutionalized women’s rights could erode under new political
leaderships.
How have women (and men) responded to new economic and
political changes, and how have women collectively organized and re-visioned
agendas for feminist activism and reform across the region? By attracting novel
and innovative research, the workshop aims to offer a platform for developing
new knowledge on women’s development in the social, economic and political
spheres in the Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for the submission
of abstracts: 15 September 2012. For more information please visit the MRM
conference website:
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