210135 VO M8: SpezialVO Geschlecht und Politik (2024S)

PART I: NEOLIBERALISM

1. March 19: Course introduction. Introducing basic concepts:
Suggested reading (lecture will be based on it):
Brown, Wendy. “Undoing Democracy: Neoliberalism’s Remaking of State and Subject.” In Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, 17–46. Zone Books, 2015

2. April 9: Neoliberalization of Feminist and Queer Politics
Mandatory reading:
Rottenberg, Catherine, 'The Neoliberal Feminist', The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism, Heretical Thought (New York, 2018; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Aug. 2018), https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1093/oso/9780190901226.003.0003

3. April 16: Remaking State-Citizen Relations: Welfare Reform and the New Neoliberal Subject
Mandatory reading:
Anna C. Korteweg, The Construction of Gendered Citizenship at the Welfare Office: An Ethnographic Comparison of Welfare-to-Work Workshops in the United States and the Netherlands, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, Fall 2006, Pages 314–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxl005

4. April 23: Neoliberalism and the Care Crisis, from an Intersectional Perspective
Mandatory Reading:
Fraser, Nancy. 2017. “Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism.” In: Battacharya, Tithi (Hg.): Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression. London, 21-36.

5. April 30: Neoliberal Crisis of Social Reproduction: Femonationalism Comes to the Rescue
Mandatory Reading: Farris, Sara. 2012. “Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women.” History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History 2, no. 2. (Fall 2012): 184-199.

PART II: ILLIBERALISM

6. MAY 7: What is Illiberalism? How has it pushed against women’s and LGBTQ+ rights?
Mandatory Reading:
Guasti, Petra, and Lenka Bustikova. “Varieties of Illiberal Backlash in Central Europe.” Problems of Post-Communism 70, no. 2 (March 4, 2023): 130–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2022.2156889.

7. May 14: Illiberalism, Authoritarianism, and Social Citizenship Rights:
Mandatory Reading:
Szikra, D., & Öktem, K. G. (2023). An illiberal welfare state emerging? Welfare efforts and trajectories under democratic backsliding in Hungary and Turkey. Journal of European Social Policy, 33(2), 201-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287221141365

8. May 21: Has illiberalism moved neoliberalism to a new stage of “post-neoliberalism”?
Mandatory Reading:
Geva, Dorit. “Orbán’s Ordonationalism as Post-Neoliberal Hegemony.” Theory, Culture & Society 38, no. 6 (November 2021): 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276421999435.

Recommended:
Fodor, Eva. “Chapter 2: A Carefare Regime,” in The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary. Palgrave, 2022, pp. 29–64.

Part III: STRUGGLES, RESISTANCE, COPING

9. May 28: Feminist Struggles in a New Political Reality
Mandatory Reading:
Elomäki, Anna, and Johanna Kantola. “Theorizing Feminist Struggles in the Triangle of Neoliberalism, Conservatism, and Nationalism.” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 25, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 337–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxy013.

10. June 4: New Modes of Organizing, New Modes of Emancipation?
Mandatory Reading:
Eschle, C., & Maiguashca, B. (2018). Theorising feminist organising in and against neoliberalism: beyond co-optation and resistance?. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 1(1-2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510818X15272520831120

Suggested:
pp. 10-12, in Scooner, Ian, Marc Edelman, Saturnino Borras, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, and Ben White. “Emancipatory Rural Politics: Confronting Authoritarian Populism.” Publications and Research, January 1, 2017. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/347.