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Recap of ASEN Seminar: Education and Ethnopolitical Stability in the Basque Country, Chile and South Tyrol

Sarah Radclifffe (R) and co-author Andrew Webb (L), both from University of Cambridge, presenting their paper

Verena Wisthal, University of Leicester, presents her findings on education and migration in South Tyrol (R) with co-panelists Stuart Durkin of the University of Aberdeen (middle) and Sarah Radcliffe (far left), Cambridge University.

On January 29, 2014, ASEN, in conjunction with SEN and the LSE Department of Government, hosted a seminar on Education and Ethnopolitical Stability in the Basque Country, Chile and South Tyrol. Three papers from SEN Journal’s Special Issue on Ethnicity, Nationalism and Education were presented, including:

“Mapuche Demands during Educational Reform, the Penguin Revolution and the Chilean Winter of Discontent” by Andrew Webb and Sarah Radcliffe

“Advancing Peace Culture in the Basque Autonomous Community: The Basque Education Plan for Peace and Human Rights (2008–2011)” by Stuart A. Durkin

“Identity Politics in the Educational System in South Tyrol: Balancing between Minority Protection and the Need to Manage Diversity” by Verena Wisthaler

All of these articles are available for free at the above-mentioned links.

More information on the ASEN Seminar Series may be found here.

Special ASEN Seminar on ‘Ethnicity, Nationlism, and Education’ – Watch this Space!

Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Gender: ASEN Seminar Series 2012

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By Durukan Kuzu, ASEN and ASEN Seminars Co-chair

The theme of ASEN’s 2012 seminar series is “Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Gender”. The overall aim of this seminar series is to scrutinize the relationship between the politics of gender, nationalism and ethnicity. It has been argued that gender inequality is inherent in nationalism as “all nationalism, tends to be conservative,” and ‘conservative’ often means ‘patriarchal’. This is partly due to the tendency of nationalists to be ‘re-traditionalisers’ and to embrace tradition as a legitimating basis for nation-building and cultural renewal. Civic-secular, liberal, and multicultural formulations of nationalism have been claimed in order to rectify gender inequalities, yet these formulations of nationalism have brought about new problems with respect to gender equality and liberation. Seminar speakers are invited to discuss whether the civic/secular, liberal or a multicultural formulation of nation is able to promote gender equality.

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