At the Gender & Diversity Studies department, we critically examine how social inequalities are created and perpetuated and how we can change them. We start from the recognition that each individual embodies multiple intersecting identities that significantly influence their opportunities and experiences. We study how these intersecting social categories manifest at various interacting levels and how their embedded power differences are (re)produced or transformed. Since 1985, our objective has been to play a pivotal role in advancing social justice through our research and education.
Gender & Diversity
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Research
Our research is embedded within the Radboud Social and Cultural Research Institute. We employ an intersectional and interdisciplinary framework integrating theories and methods from various fields, including Organisation studies, Sexuality studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Pedagogy and Education Studies, History, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Literature Studies, Philosophy, and Disability studies. Our methodological toolkit includes conceptual and empirical approaches, emphasising the latter. It encompasses qualitative and quantitative research techniques, such as discourse analysis, interviews, focus group discussions, participant observations, and surveys. These approaches enable us to rigorously investigate the complex interplay of power dynamics, knowledge production, societal norms, and individual experiences. Our research translates into policies and interventions contributing to equal rights and opportunities for all.
Our research can be divided into three subthemes, although a significant amount of our work spans across more than one subtheme:
Diversities in everyday culture and politics
We study social, cultural, and political in- and exclusion processes, including the (un)making of social identities, social movements, (in)formal organisations, knowledge production, kinship, citizenship, and human rights. By studying everyday practices and discourses, we aim to understand how power inequalities and identities interact and how some are included while others are excluded.
Diversities in organisations
We examine the (re)production and impact of power inequalities in various organisations. We also study processes and interventions that aim to improve intersectional equality, examining when and why these processes and interventions are effective, ineffective, or even counterproductive.
Diversities in care
We study how intersecting inequalities impact the accessibility and effectiveness of care and how we can reduce power imbalances and inequalities in health and wellbeing. In this theme, care concerns informal care work, such as parenting, institutionalised care and ethics of care in the research process.
Contact information
Location
Visiting address
Thomas Van Aquinostraat 46525GD Nijmegen
Postal address
Postbus 91046500HE NIJMEGEN
Contact person
Prof. M.C.L. van den Brink (Marieke)