Descrizione del progetto
Analizzare l’accesso alla giustizia delle donne musulmane in Europa
Il progetto BILQIS, finanziato dall’UE, combinerà studi socio-giuridici, di genere, femministi e islamici per indagare sui diritti delle donne musulmane in Europa. BILQIS analizzerà le questioni di genere in relazione al diritto di famiglia islamico. A tal fine, i ricercatori condurranno uno studio comparativo sul modo in cui le donne musulmane si sono fatte strada tra operato e autorità nel corso tempo, dal XIX secolo a oggi, nelle periferie europee dei Balcani e nei contesti nord-atlantici. Inoltre, si interrogherà su come comprendere meglio lo sviluppo di genere del diritto di famiglia islamico in ciascuno di questi contesti periferici, in termini di operato e autorità, attraverso lo studio di testi giuridici e autorità.
Obiettivo
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).
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsIstituzione ospitante
H91 Galway
Irlanda