Descrizione del progetto
Trasformare le dinamiche di genere e familiari
Nel mondo attuale in rapida evoluzione, le dinamiche tradizionali di genere e familiari sono soggette a sfide notevoli. Le strutture familiari gerarchiche stanno cedendo il passo a ideali più egualitari, una trasformazione spesso definita «democratizzazione della famiglia». Ciò comporta un passaggio verso l’uguaglianza dei diritti dei genitori, sia all’interno che all’esterno dei matrimoni eterosessuali. Questo passaggio, tuttavia, comporta una serie di contraddizioni e problemi complessi. Finanziato dal Consiglio europeo della ricerca, il progetto DEMFAM esplora il ruolo dei diritti dei genitori nelle guerre di genere contemporanee, dove le questioni di genere, sessualità e famiglia si intersecano con l’identità nazionale e religiosa, il liberalismo e la democrazia. Il progetto abbraccia diversi sistemi politico-economici e giuridici, fornendo una prospettiva globale unica sulla trasformazione del genere e della famiglia.
Obiettivo
Through the lens of ‘shared and equal parenting’, DEMFAM studies the transformation of gender and the family in contemporary global history. First, it studies a shift from hierarchical to egalitarian conceptions of family relations, or a democratisation of the family. This entails the equalisation of parental rights within and outside the domain of heterosexual marriages, which coincided with the harmonisation of the rights of marital and non-marital children. The emergence of post-familial care arrangements, secondly, led to a denser regulation, or juridification of co-parenting. Inner-familial power shifts were accompanied by a reconfiguration of family-state relations. The project investigates the development of judicial and extra-judicial institutions (including family courts, social work interventions, and mediation agencies) which aimed to promote parental cooperation and safeguard child welfare in familial conflict situations. Finally, it shows how parental rights assumed centre stage in the twenty-first century’s ‘gender wars’, or the politicisation of gender, sexuality, and the family in struggles over national and religious identity, liberalism, and democracy.
DEMFAM analyses these (limited and contradictory) transformative processes across different political-economic and legal systems within a shared global environment. The project develops a social history of law reform on different political scales to understand global dynamics of divergence and convergence in the transformation of gender and the family. It combines the analysis of transnational knowledge circulation (including policy transfer, civil society mobilisation, and scientific expertise) with the comparative study of family change in Western Europe (FRG, UK), Central Eastern Europe (the GDR, Poland), and South Asia (India). Integrating research on post-colonial legal pluralism, and on (post-)socialist gender and family politics, DEMFAM opens new horizons for global gender history.
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
14195 Berlin
Germania