Law – Gender – Collectivity
The DFG Research Unit "Law – Gender – Collectivity" joins scholars of diverse subjects, ranging from law, sociology, and European ethnology to history, who focus on the relationship between law, sex/gender, and collectivity. Initiated by Susanne Baer and led by Beate Binder, it involves researchers from various Berlin-based universities, as well as University of Potsdam and European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder). They question the efficacy of gendered collectivity in a hegemonic male-oriented, and hetero-normative tradition of law. With a deepend understanding of collectivization processes that are both legally standardized and gendered, this research unit explores how current social conflicts present themselves as well as how they may be understood and described with due complexity. After the first phase of funding ("Processes of Norming, Categorization, and Solidarization," 2018-2021), the research group entered its second phase in the summer of 2021, under the name "The Contested General and the New Common". The second phase will last three years, until 2024.
The Research Unit subprojects for the second phase:
Subproject A: Claiming a Common World? Gender in Environmental Law and Climate; Humboldt University Berlin, Law
Subproject B: Overcoming Borders. Legal categorisation of gender, “race” and class in transnational labor conflicts; European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Law
Subproject C: Within and Beyond Law? Feminist Perspectives on Urban and Housing Commons; TU Berlin, Social Science
Subproject D: The Organization of Consumer Protection: Political Actors and Legal Framework; University of Potsdam, Social Science
Subproject E: The Mobilization of Law through / as Collectivization? Anti-Discrimination and Equality Law as Institutional and Political Practice; Humboldt University Berlin, European Ethnology
Subproject F: Human Rights, Queer Genders and Sexualities since the 1970s; FU Berlin, History Science
Subproject 0: Coordinating project; Humboldt University Berlin, European Ethnology/Gender Studies
First phase:
Subproject A: Focusing Collectivity. Gender, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identitity as Social Group(s) within European Asylum Law; Humboldt University Berlin, Law
Subproject B: Self-empowerment in Juridified Spheres. Changes of Gendered Collectives in Workplace and Employment; European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Law
Subproject C: Reinventing Collectivity? The 'Rediscovery' of Commonality. An Investigation of Discourses and Practices of Urban Co-housing; TU Berlin, Social Science
Subproject D: Male Alliances of Military and Fire Department - Political Interest Groups and Legal Interventions; University of Potsdam, Social Science
Subproject E: The Mobilization of Law through/as Collectivization? Anti-Discrimination and Equality Law as Institutional and Political Practice; Humboldt University Berlin, European Ethnology
Subproject F: Homosexual Emancipation Movements and Legal Framework in the Federal German Republic from 2002 and 1945; FU Berlin, History Science
More information (in German and English) as well as announcements of upcoming events and publications can be found on their website: https://www.recht-geschlecht-kollektivitaet.de/