Thought as Action: Gender, Democracy, Freedom

The project participants will pursue theoretical and interdisciplinary inquiries, working from the vantage point of their respective disciplines. An overaching hypothesis for the whole project is that there is a crucial interrelationship between thougt and action and that we need to understand and rethink the conceptions of possibility for freedom and democracy from a gender perspective. This knowledge may again be of use to the international research community and policy makers alike.

The project participants' shared interest in theoretical questioning has led us towards a more rigorous interrogation of the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of some of the concepts that are currently being marshalled in the name of democracy and freedom, among them "citizenship", "human rights", "subject", "sexed bodies", etc. But above all we wish to explore the possibility of developing and discovering new modes of thinking that are compatible not only with the present, but that will allow us to think future configurations of gender democracy and freedom.