GENDER AND POLITICAL ECONOMY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE

LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

LISBON, PORTUGAL

July 2022

Friday July 15th

10:15 to 12 noon – Gender and Political Economy Roundtable I:

New Approaches to Gender and Political Economy 

Panel Description: Conceptions of gender, sex, sexuality and the family are constitutive of, not peripheral to, global legal orders in their socioeconomic dimensions. The goal of this roundtable is to bring together perspectives on the relationship between gender roles and the legal, social and cultural norms and institutions that shape markets and economies, in the context of the Gender and Political Economy (GPE) International Research Collaborative. 

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2:45 to 4:30 — Gender and Political Economy Roundtable II: 

Revisiting Distributive Analysis 

Panel Description: This panel seeks to revisit distributive analysis and what it means for Gender and Political Economy (GPE). It seeks to explore the relationship between gender, sex discrimination law, the regulation of sex work, social exclusion of female workers, privatization of social welfare functions, and neoliberalism. This panel seeks to theorize the gap between the law on the books and the law in action and how it distributes power and opportunities.  Using comparative case studies and different sets of analytical tools, the panel articulates sets of methods or priors that help clarify the terms of engagement. The panel also assesses the role of informality and the way it should be assessed in analysis of law and GPE. 

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4:45 to 6:30 — Gender and Political Economy Roundtable III:  

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives  

Panel Description: This panel session will bring together comparative perspectives on the relationship between gender roles and the legal, social and cultural norms and institutions that shape markets and economies during rapidly changing times. With growing awareness of wealth and income inequality in both developed and developing countries, the time is ripe for study of how social groupings around gender, sex and sexuality relate to economic inequality analysis. The objective is to critically interrogate assumptions embedded in current approaches to gender and the political economy with a view to contributing to a framework for a comprehensive distributional analysis of gender in the law, and to do so in a way that attends to both the role of theory in action and the role of action in theory. 

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