Feminist political science research has been developing over the last three decades intensively, aiming at gendering research methodologies, theoretical debates and empirical research. Feminist political science, neighbouring disciplines and interdisciplinary research have shaped new approaches to theory and practice, and have sought to produce work that is of direct relevance to achieving women’s movement goals, whether within public policy or within political institutions broadly conceived. Gender and politics research seeks to identify obstacles to change and the possibilities for a broad gender-responsive transformation. However, we are witnessing a continual marginalization of feminist political analysis in the “mainstream” social sciences and growing opposition to gender studies in Europe and beyond. These negative developments have indeed arrived to the South-East Europe and the feminist political science is still on the margins, very much dependent on individual engagement and endeavours. In order to promote regional cooperation collaborative approaches, the Gender and Politics Research Network in South-East Europe (GenPolSEE) is being established.

The Founding Meeting of the GenPolSEE Network will be held in Belgrade on 2 and 3 November 2022. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory and the Institute of Social Sciences are co-hosting the founding meeting. The founding meeting will combine a thematic working day, with a strategic planning workshop on the second day. The organisation of the Founding Meeting is supported by Global Unit for Feminism and Gender Democracy (Heinrich Boll Stiftung).

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