CCIG Lecture series: Brigid Featherstone on 'Fathering, Gender Relations and Austerity'

We are living on the line. Ours is a time of intensified disruption of the familiar. Rights depletions, loss of public and community life, identity crises, pervasive insecurities, and lack of imaginative governance seem to rule the day. Yet, living on the line is also living in sites of contestation and reinvention where new possibilities for citizenship, identities and governance are competed over and mediated. The now is never just new but neither can it be reduced to old frameworks, to instituted traditional conceptions.

In this lecture series, leading CCIG researchers put social sciences on the line. We examine its limits, rework old concepts and develop new ideas and methods to draw out possibilities for critique, social justice and positive social change in times of crises. The lecture series brings research at the cutting edge of the social sciences to bear on contemporary predicaments and in particular on our understanding of how transformative processes work by challenging divisions, intolerance and discriminations.

Fathering, Gender Relations and Austerity

This lecture will be given by Prof Brigid Featherstone who will interrogate policy developments on fathering in the current climate of austerity. She will discuss the implications for social justice with a particular focus on gender and generation.

Further details to come.