A feminist exploration #9 | Discourses on demography in the EU institutions
Channel: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union
Date: 2022-03-16

More info: https://calendar.boell.de/en/feminist-exploration-demography
Join us for a feminist exploration of discourses on demography in the EU institutions! The EU is currently facing substantial demographic challenges and will continue to do so in the coming decades. The authors will present their key findings of the report ‘Discourses on Demography in the EU Institutions’ - the first quantitative analysis of historical Twitter data in the field of demographic discourses. They will demonstrate how discourses have been hijacked by illiberal, right-wing and conservative forces. Liberals and progressives, on the other hand, tend to skirt the issue. This, too, creates a vacuum that is filled by the right and the far right.
During the discussion, we will explore how anti-migration discourses creep into the debate around demographic challenges framed by the European Commission and what progressive forces can do about this. We want to stimulate a joint reflection on how progressive, and thus feminist, positions on demography can be strengthened.
A feminist perspective is required to reveal the gender politics engrained in demographic-political discourses to provide equality-oriented answers to the challenges of demography and the instrumentalised discourses around it.
Join us for a discussion on Wednesday, 16 March 2022. This European Feminist Platform discussion series is powered by, and created for, feminist scholars, activists and policy-makers – in Europe and beyond.