Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: Institutionalisation Meets Neo-liberalism Contingent on Geopolitics

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gender Studies in the Czech Republic: Institutionalisation Meets Neo-liberalism Contingent on Geopolitics

Original language description

In the chapter I focus on some of the intersections of geopolitical location and the position of gender studies as a discipline in the Czech Republic. The first part of the paper depicts the functioning of the higher education and research systems in the Czech Republic and the establishment of the discipline and its institutionalisation. The second part then looks at the intersection of geopolitics and neoliberalism in how it affects local gender studies. Driving on 27 semi-structured interviews with scholars and activists and observations and practice as a gender studies researcher at the department Centre for Gender and Science, I offer an exploration of how the specific geopolitical setting impacts the field of gender studies and scholars navigating it. I argue that gender studies as a discipline has profited from the massification of higher education, which many see as part of neoliberal higher education reforms. At the same time, research into gender-related issues has been assisted by incorporation of gender e.g. in the European Research Area and other EU policies. This positioning of gender studies is at least partly problematic as it both strengthens the local focus on institutionalised (rather than grassroots) activities and may undermine the perceived local relevance of the discipline that resonates with early post-1989 anti-feminist discourse that has not been efficiently challenged so far.

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance

ISBN

978-3-658-19852-7

Number of pages of the result

35

Pages from-to

255-280

Number of pages of the book

289

Publisher name

Springer VS

Place of publication

Wiesbaden

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