Descripción del proyecto
Examinar el acceso de las mujeres musulmanas a la justicia en Europa
El equipo del proyecto BILQIS, financiado con fondos europeos, combinará estudios sociojurídicos, de género, feministas e islámicos para investigar los derechos de las mujeres musulmanas en Europa. En BILQIS se examinarán cuestiones de género en relación con las leyes familiares islámicas (LFI). Para ello, los investigadores llevarán a cabo un estudio comparativo de cómo las mujeres musulmanas en Europa han transitado por terrenos de influencia y autoridad a lo largo del tiempo, desde el siglo XIX hasta la actualidad, en las periferias europeas de los Balcanes y los contextos noratlánticos. Además, se cuestionará de qué manera el desarrollo de las LFI en función del género en cada uno de estos contextos periféricos puede entenderse mejor en términos de influencia y autoridad mediante el estudio de los textos y las autoridades del ámbito jurídico.
Objetivo
BILQIS emerges from a critical concern around Muslim women’s access to justice in Europe. BILQIS will be driven by methodological advances in Islamic feminism that the PI has been to the fore in delivering and will be primarily distinguished by its systematic and rigorous inquiries into questions of gender in relation to Islamic family laws (IFL) and IFL-related socio-religious and socio-legal power structures. The project will engage in a comparative study how Muslim women in Europe have navigated agency and authority over time from the long 19th century to the present day across diverse European peripheries, specifically the Ottoman Balkans, the post-Ottoman Balkans, and the territorial spaces that are currently governed by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden. BILQIS will interrogate how the gendered development of IFL in each of these peripheral contexts can be better understood in terms agency and authority through studies of legal texts and authorities (e.g. qadis, sijills, muftis, fatwas, istintâk, national court judgements) and will produce new critical, contextual, conceptual, and constructive knowledge in this regard. As a result BILQIS will break significant epistemic, conceptual and methodological impasses around shari’a, conflict of laws, and cultural pluralism in Europe. Finally, BILQIS will aim to use the sum of this new knowledge to construct a new methodological framework to transform the study of gender gaps and power imbalances related to agency and authority. This new methodology will direct the future of critical work on gender gaps across multiple disciplines (e.g. Islamic studies, Socio-legal Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, European Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Philosophy, Government and Policy Studies).
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
H91 Galway
Irlanda