The Department of Gender and Globalization focuses its research on the transformations of gender orders in a global context. Gender relations, in their various local manifestations and within their political, historical, and cultural frameworks, are at the center of our socially grounded analyses.
The restructuring of the global economy deeply impacts traditional social hierarchies, integrating, modifying, and reproducing gender inequality. Resistance to these new/old forms of gender hierarchization is forming globally, whether in individual subversive strategies or in collective political actions.
The research questions of the department address environmental crises, gender analyses of the economy, networks of knowledge and politics, agriculture and food, and urban and spatial development in the intersection of global and local life worlds. Here you can find our research topics.
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Research Project
PLATEFORMS/SUSFOOD2
PLATEFORMS is an international research project funded within the European SusFood2 network and consisting of 5 members located in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Italy.
PLATEFORMS aims to produce in-depth knowledge on how food practices are affected by socio-technical innovations in food provisioning platforms, and communicate success stories of sustainability to platform owners and policy makers. In recent years, we have seen an increase in the range of food provisioning platforms available to consumers. Each platform presents consumers with a unique choice architecture. These emerge from both e-commerce development and consumer-driven food provisioning. Little is known about the impact of these new platforms on food choices, or to what degree they represent new opportunities to promote sustainable food practices.
The project takes a socio-technical practice approach, seeing consumption in all its phases of planning, provisioning, storing, cooking, eating, and disposing – driven by practices more than by individual choices. Since these practices are highly gendered, especially the responsibility for care work, a gendered perspective will be central.