BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:587@ukfiet.org DTSTART:20240228T160000Z DTEND:20240228T173000Z DTSTAMP:20240214T100447Z URL:https://www.ukfiet.org/events/exploring-the-nexus-of-gender-liberalism -and-development/ SUMMARY:Exploring the nexus of gender\, liberalism and development DESCRIPTION:28 February 2024 16:00–17:30 GMT\nUniversity of Sussex Room C 133 in the Arts C building and online on Zoom.\nRegister to join in person or online\nThe struggles for international development are often blamed o n the economic and social excesses of neoliberalism and the ways these pro duce\, sustain and deepen inequalities globally. Gender is internationally recognised as a key dimension of these inequalities.\nWhile neoliberalism has been widely critiqued\, significantly liberal thought\, on which neol iberalism is founded\, has evaded critical scrutiny. In this Sussex Develo pment Lecture\, Professors Dunne and Crossouard from the University of Sus sex\, Centre for International Education will focus on gender to explore h ow the foundational principles of liberalism frame\, shape and inform deve lopment. In this discussion they will refer to decolonial critiques of dev elopment\, its liberal assumptions of western superiority and linear model s of social and economic progress. Returning to gender the presenters crit ique how liberal assumptions of the human agent as autonomous\, masculine and agentic remain entrenched within development discourse.\nUsing example s from research they illustrate that while gender has been recognised as a social construction\, the SDGs and development discourses continue to ass ume and reinscribe gender as a decontextualised female/male dichotomy. Fur ther\, these understandings of gender are deployed as an indicator of prog ress\, becoming technologies of power used to define and measure developme nt. Against these liberal notions\, they argue for development to embrace theories of gender that attend to its production within specific social an d cultural contexts\, and to the interdependencies that are integral to th e social and material conditions of everyday lives.\nSpeakers\n\n Professo r Máiréad Dunne\, Professor of Sociology of Education\, University of Su ssex\n Professor Barbara Crossouard\, Professor of Theory in Education\, U niversity of Sussex\n\nChair\n\n Professor Linda Morrice\, Professor of Ed ucation and Migration\, University of Sussex\n\n \;\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ukfiet.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/0 2/Nexus-of-Gender-28-2-24.jpg CATEGORIES:Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR