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Short abstract:
Based on gender equality projects aiming at organizational change the transfer of analytical transformation instruments from the field of socio-ecological transformation research to gender equality-related transformation will be presented and reflected on with regard to its transformation potential.
Long abstract:
The strengthening of equal opportunities between intersectionally conceived women and men in science and society through the implementation of numerous and very different measures, with the primary goal of not only initiating social change, but also organisational transformation, have simultaneously represented practices of experimentation and trans- and interdisciplinary exchange in the field of feminist equality practice and gender research since the 1990s. The subject of equality thus represents an object of investigation and resource for transformation research that has been discussed virulently for decades and has not yet been exploited. And conversely, the questions raised by the formation of transformation research can offer valuable reflection foils in order to better understand progress and regression, persistence tendencies and transformations of intersectionally tailored (gender-related) social inequality.
On the basis of two gender equality EU projects (CHANGE, LetsGEPs) which were carried out at the interface of research and practice and under the target perspective of "organizational change", the transfer of analytical transformation instruments (leverage perspective) from the field of socio-ecological transformation research to gender equality-related transformation will be presented and reflected on with regard to its transformation potential. This is also linked to a change of perspective on a newly launched project (GenderFUTURE), which asks to what extent socio-ecological transformation processes can be made fruitful for gender equality-related processes.
Finally, these approaches raise the question of which normative and theoretical implications are conveyed in the concept of transformation in relation to social change or, more narrowly, in relation to social change in organizations.
Making and doing transformations in feminist science & technology studies
Session 2 Friday 19 July, 2024, -