Feminist violence studies
This theme includes research about development of feminist theory, feminist science studies, and knowledge production in organisations and political movements. Within this line of research, interventions are made concerning theoretical issues of central relevance to feminist theory, such as the epistemological and ontological status of gender categories, the nature of gendered power relations, and the relationship between materiality, experience and discourse. This theme also includes studies that examine knowledge production in political movements, with a particular focus on how the relationship between experience and knowledge can be philosophically conceptualized, and on what grounds different forms of knowledge claims can be legitimized. The environment is characterized by a strong critical-realist and historical-materialist intellectual tradition, but also includes poststructuralist and social constructionist perspectives.
The theme includes research in feminist science studies, a field of research that deals with how gender, power and social structures influence science. Here you will find research on gender stereotypes and heteronormative perceptions in biological research, and how perceptions of females and sex differences are negotiated in evolutionary biology.
Studies on gender and knowledge production examine how knowledge production affects organizations and those who work in them. An important part of this research field deals with organizational changes within universities and colleges as well as within knowledge-intensive companies. How does this affect women and men and how does gender and other power structures affect knowledge production, knowledge claims and knowledge views? This research analyses the interconnections of gendered structures and cultures of knowledge production organisations and organising to research agendas, careers, conceptualisations, knowledge transfer and translation. Gender dynamics of national, regional and international research policy are explored, by analysing policy-making, policy stakeholder organisations, and policy-makers and gatekeepers. This theme also includes studies on knowledge production in political movements.
