Artificial Intelligence and Ethnic, Religious and Gender-Based Discrimination

Call for papers

Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2021 | Deadline for Articles: 31 July 2021

Social Inclusion, peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus, welcomes new and exciting research papers for its upcoming issue “Artificial Intelligence and Ethnic, Religious and Gender-Based Discrimination,” edited by Derya Ozkul (University of Oxford, UK).

To what extent the use of new technologies result in discrimination based on gender, ethnic or religious backgrounds? What are the newly emerging governance mechanisms to mitigate such forms of discrimination? How is accountability ensured in the design and implementation stages? What is the role of civil society and courts in challenging the ‘machine bias’? This thematic issue invites articles with a critical lens and empirically novel findings across various spheres, including but not limited to courts, public security and border management, on the question of artificial intelligence-based technologies and inclusion.

Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are encouraged to read the full call for papers here. 

Abstracts welcome by 15 March 2021.

Actions collectives et pouvoir(s) dans les relations de care

Appel à contributions pour un numéro de la revue Cahiers du genre: Résistances, actions collectives et pouvoir(s) dans les relations de care. Propositions attendues pour le 1^er novembre 2020

Coordination : Aurélie Damamme (CRESPPA-GTM, Université Paris 8), Caroline Ibos (LEGS, Université Rennes 2) et Efthymia Makridou (Laboratory of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research – Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)             

Déjà avant la crise sanitaire, mais de manière bien plus perceptible depuis que la covid-19 a révélé la vulnérabilité comme condition partagée, le care est au centre de discours, d’attitudes et de politiques paradoxales : le soin d’un monde commun est à la fois reconnu comme essentiel et sous-estimé. D’un côté, l’éthique du soin, l’attention à autrui et le maintien des relations et des attachements auront été pendant cette séquence valorisés comme l’une des dimensions de la citoyenneté. D’un autre côté, les travailleurs et les travailleuses du care, ce nouveau prolétariat de service dont les corps ont été prioritairement exposés, se sont vu dans l’immédiat « monde d’après » exclu·e·s des rétributions matérielles et symboliques. Pendant la pandémie, les personnes qui ont le plus pourvu au soin d’autrui, qui y ont été contraintes ou assignées et qui ont pris cette mission d’intérêt général au sérieux, sont aussi celles qui souvent ont été les moins protégées et qui appartiennent aux groupes sociaux les plus exposés et les plus stigmatisés.

Cette marginalisation du care inscrite dans des rapports sociaux enchevêtrés, dans les mailles du genre, de la race et de la classe, a déjà fait l’objet de travaux féministes issus de disciplines variées (philosophie, sociologie, psychologie, histoire, économie). Leurs critiques de la division sexuelle, raciale et sociale du travail ainsi que des dichotomies dualistes entre public et privé, rationnel et émotionnel, travail productif et domestique ont contribué non seulement à rendre visibles les mécanismes de la dévalorisation morale et sociale du care mais aussi à démontrer la centralité de celui-ci dans les débats sur l’émancipation et la démocratie (Tronto, 2013).

Pour en savoir plus…Appel à propositions :

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Varieties of Gender Regimes

Webinar – Thursday 24 September 2020 14.00-16.00 (BST)

This event will discuss the Special Section of Social Politics on ‘Varieties of Gender Regimes’ published in August 2020.

What are the varieties of gender regime? This event focuses on Walby’s varieties of gender regimes and pathways to alternative forms.  Both the domestic and public regimes will be addressed and, within the public, both neoliberal and social democratic varieties. Is this model sufficient to encompass the turn to less progressive forms and multiple global regions or are further varieties needed? At stake here is the distinction between modern and premodern, public and domestic, the meaning of conservative, the concept of the family, and the theorisation of violence. 

Speakers and Discussants

All the papers will be introduced by their authors in the order set out below. This will be followed by two discussants and the meeting will then be opened to question and answer:

–        Karen Shire (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Sylvia Walby (City, University of London, UK): Advances in Theorizing Varieties of Gender Regimes. Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa029

–        Sylvia Walby (City, University of London, UK): Varieties of Gender Regimes. Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa018

–        Karen Shire (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Kumiko Nemoto (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Japan): The Origins and Transformations of Conservative Gender Regimes in Germany and Japan. Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa017

–        Valentine M. Moghadam (Northeastern University, US): Gender Regimes in the Middle East and North Africa: The Power of Feminist Movements. Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa019

–        Emanuela Lombardo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) and Alba Alonso (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain): Gender regime change in decentralized states: the case of Spain. Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa016

–        Ece Kocabicak (Open University, UK): Why property matters? New varieties of domestic patriarchy in Turkey. Available here:https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa023

–        Jeff Hearn (Örebro University, Sweden; University of Huddersfield, UK), Sofia Strid (Örebro University, Sweden), Anne Laure Humbert (Oxford Brookes University, UK), Dag Balkmar (Örebro University, Sweden) and Marine Delaunay (Centre Emile Durkheim): From Gender Regimes to Violence Regimes: Re-thinking the Position of Violence. Available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxaa022  

Moderator: Heidi Gottfried (Wayne State University, USA)

Discussants: Mieke Verloo (Radboud University, Netherlands) and Roberta Guerrina (University of Bristol, UK)

This event is hosted by the Violence and Society Centre, City, University of London, UK, and co-organised with the Essen College for Gender Research, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

Registration

Registration is free. Register in advance for the event here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Pandemia. Azioni e Reazioni

(Aggiornamento del 19-05-2020 a evento concluso. Per chi non avesse potuto partecipare, ecco la registrazione dell’intervento.)

Nello scrivere progetti di ricerca non si può prescindere da ciò che viviamo nei giorni della stesura del progetto. Il COVID-19 non ha avuto un impatto formale sulle call for projects dell’UE (a parte le call dedicate direttamente alla pandemia) ma fino a che punto è possibile includere in un formulario la realtà che si vive e le incertezze future che ci attendono?

Quando progettiamo ricerche che inizieranno fra sei o otto mesi (caso tipico nella preparazione di proposte per l’UE) come possiamo tenere conto degli effetti della pandemia in corso, che ancora non possiamo prevedere?

Abbiamo la responsabilità di aggiungere azioni che sostengano il benessere personale e ambientale in progetti che si occupano di tutt’altro?

L’attivismo per cause ambientali, antispeciste, umanitarie può entrare a far parte di azioni di disseminazione e comunicazione del progetto?
Parlerò di questi e altri temi durante la tavola rotonda organizzata da Huma-net, un progetto di divulgazione e approfondimento scientifico curato da Anna Lisa Somma e Flavia Sciolette.

L’appuntamento è per sabato 16 maggio alle ore 16:00.

Huma_net: il programma della tavola rotonda

Link alla pagina FB di Huma-net

 

Ladynomics: #ideexdomani

Che ne sarà del futuro, di noi donne e del paese?

Con #ideexdomani Ladynomics ha chiesto contributi e idee per la rinascita del paese.

Aver passato due anni a studiare l’evoluzione delle carriere femminili in ambito accademico e nelle aziende high tech mi ha dato l’idea che se si vuole promuovere un cambiamento strutturale non sempre è necessario creare nuove strutture, nuovi organismi, nuovi comitati.

Ad esempio, se parliamo di uguaglianza di genere, diversità e inclusione, la pubblica amministrazione dispone già di uno strumento che, se ben usato, potrebbe diventare un volano di innovazione, i CUG, Comitati Unici di Garanzia.

I due minuti del video pubblicato sulla pagina FB di Ladynomics riassumono la mia idea.

Visto l’interesse suscitato dal video, ho preparato una presentazione più approfondita che permette di capire meglio la proposta.

Grazie a Cerchi di cura per averla pubblicata sulla sua pagina Youtube, dal momento che i CUG sono attivi anche nel settore sanitario.