Due: 12th February, 2024

Submit to: Reem.Elnady@uwe.ac.uk

For queries contact: RubinM@Cardiff.ac.uk

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There is currently a strong sense that society is in the age of crises, with phrases like “permacrisis” and “polycrisis” entering the public lexicon and imaginary to describe the sense of ongoing and unending state of emergency, as well as the extended and overlapping challenges of the Anthropocene. These include climate change, soaring cost of living, wars, and pandemics to name just a few of the global and contextual factors that communities worldwide are faced with. Against the backdrop of these intense and sustained crises, gender and sexual equality is increasingly threatened by polarised views around gendered identities, LGBTQI+ rights, and reproductive freedom among others. Due to the entanglement of gender and crisis , this workshop aims to bring scholars from across disciplines interested in these topics together to discuss, explore, investigate and theorise their causes, impacts, influences and trajectories. Building on the 2023 Gender Urban Research Network Workshop held at Cardiff University, in July 2023, we aim to bring researchers and interested parties into conversation and to expand our network across disciplines and geographic areas (i.e. Global North and South; East and West; etc.). The Gender Urban Research Collective1 subsequently invites abstracts for the 2024 Gender in Crisis Workshop (Hybrid) held at Utrecht University between 3rd-5th July 2024.

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Some of the sub-themes for this workshop include:

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• Intersection of gender and climate change

• Women’s care work, especially in precarious environments, e.g., tent

  cities, refugee camps, informal settlements, squats, slums, etc.

• Gendered aspects of relationships with the state, i.e. citizenship and

  gender in slums, informal settlements, and municipalities.

• Re-thinking gender

• Queer and gendered geographies: tensions and bridges

• Gender and planning; built environment and challenging conventional

  thinking e.g. the 20 minute city

• Gender and mobility

• How do we study gender in crisis?: methods, approaches and ways of

  working

• Reproductive politics: what role does space play in the struggle over

  sexual and reproductive rights?

• Gender and conflict

• Gender and migration (refugees, asylum seekers, intersectionality, etc)

We invite scholars, activists, practitioners, and anyone else working on these topics to submit abstracts for talks, panel discussions or other forms of engagement on these or related themes. These could be artistic interventions, walks, public engagements or anything else. We are open and would be keen to hear your innovative thoughts and proposals.

Please bear in mind:

• The event will be hybrid (although it is envisaged that some sessions will just be online and others will just be in person) and everyone will be asked to bring devices that allow them to engage online.

• Researchers will need to pay their own way for transport and accommodation, meals during the workshop will be covered.

• A small number of stipends can be applied for travel and accommodation but preference will be given to scholars from the Global South.

• There will be a strong element of “play” and engagement.

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