CENTRE FOR GENDER RESEARCH (FREIA)

AALBORG UNIVERSITY, DENMARCK

2001

Objectives

  • The study of interactions between power dynamics and gender in interplay with other differentiating and inequality creating categories (such as sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, generation, etc.) in the nexus between local-national-transnational-global levels of analysis.
  • To apply a critical gender perspective to new questions across disciplines. More recent focus areas are gender and place/space; gender and nation; gender, social movements and transnational activism.
  • To teach gender issues at a range of different study programs (at BA, MA and Ph.D. levels) at different departments, including at the two-year master specialisation in Global Gender Studies.
  • To make gender research and teaching more visible and engage in continuous dialogues with fellow gender scholars, students, organisations and society at large.
  • To organise gender related research seminars, workshops, lectures and other activities both in and outside Aalborg University.

Research and results

Finished Projects (75) – Related to Heritage and Humanities:

  • Strange, dangerous and naughty. Young men and ethnic/racial otherness – between resistance and stylization (Jensen, S. Q., 2003-2007). Publication: Jensen, SQ, Strange, dangerous and naughty: Young men and ethnic/racial otherness – between resistance and stylization, Aalborg University, 2007.
  • Gender, democracy and globalization – local, national and global identities (Sim, B. & Milwertz , C ., 2010-2012). Publication: Siim, B., “Gendering Globalization” In:
  • Milwertz, C., Siim, B. & Jie, Z. (eds.). Asia Insights: Theme: Gendering Globalization. NIAS Press, 2009, p. 4-5.
  • RAGE: Hate Speech and Populist ‘Othering’ through the racism, age and gender looking glass (Meret, S., Lazaridis , G. , Siim , B. , Campani , G. , Sauer , B. , Pajnik, M. , Benveniste , A. , Saarinen , A. & Krasteva , A., 2013-2015).
  • MiClue: Emigration and Immigration in a Historical Perspective (Lund Thomsen, T., Emerek, R. & Hjorth, S., 2013-2016).
  • Citizens’ activism and solidarity movements in contemporary Europe (Siim , B. , Saarinen , A. & Krasteva , A., 2015-2018). Publication: Siim, B., Saarinen, A. & Krasteva, A. (eds.), Citizens Activism and Solidarity Movement in Contemporary Europe: Contending with Populism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • FFNN: The Future of Feminisms in the Nordic Region (Stoltz, P., Halsaa, B., Mulinari, D., Keskinen, S. & Stormhøj, C., 2016-2017). Publication: Suvi Keskinen, Diana Mulinari and Pauline Stoltz (Eds.), Feminisms in the Nordic Region – Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Decolonial Critique, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
  • Citizens’ Activism and Solidarity Movements. Contending with Populism (Siim , B. , Krasteva , A. & Saarinen , A., 2016-2018). Publication: Siim, B., Saarinen, A. & Krasteva, A. (eds.), Citizens Activism and Solidarity Movement in Contemporary Europe: Contending with Populism, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • Spiteful Literature: An Affective Theory of Precarity (Kongerslev, M., 2018-2021). Conferences and Forum “Southern Studies Forum”, 2019.

Ongoing projects

  • Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Citizenship (Siim, B. & Stoltz, P., 2021-2023).
  • Gender and the Politics of Memory (Stoltz, P., Lindberg Falk, M., Iwatake, M., Ask, K., Gustafsson, K. & Phoenix, A., since 2013).
  • Leave for parents in the Nordic countries: Politics, policies and practices (Borchorst, A., Bloksgaard, L. & Rostgaard, T., since 2012).
  • BSU: Building Stronger Universities in Africa (Madsen, D. H., since 2012).
  • Gender, resistance and transnational memories of violent conflicts (Stoltz, P., since 2011).
  • Den demokratiske fredszones historiske udvikling / The Historical Development of the Democratic Zone of Peace (Flockhart, T., since 2010).
  • Social læring af demokratiske normer igennem NATO PA aktiviteter / The Social Learning of new Democratic Norms through Activities at NATO PA (Flockhart, T., since 2010).
  • Sikkerhedsorganisationers rolle i forbindelse med konsolidering af demokrati i Central- og Østeuropa / The Role of Security Organisations for the Consolidation of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (Flockhart, T., since 2010).
  • Post. Doc. project: Family care for children in Denmark today (Elg, C., since 2010).
  • Gender segregation – the danish labour market (Emerek, R., since 2010).
  • Gender, welfare state and economic citizenship in historical perspective. Part of NCoE Nordwel: The Nordic Welfare State – historical foundations and future challenges (Ravn, A., since 2007).
  • MiMa: Migration and Marriage (Elg, C., Schmidt, G., Rytter, M. & Jakobsen, V., since 2005).