New CSS Working Group: A Feminist Moral CompassResearchers of the 'Global Governance' Team among Participants in new CSS Working Group "A Moral Compass? Enquiring into the Potential of Feminist Theory and Practice to shape a Sustainable International Society"

22. Juli 2024

For the years 2024 to 2026, researchers of the Global Governance team are among the participants of a new working group at the Center for Sustainable Society Research, University of Hamburg. In the working group, Prof. Antje Wiener PhD, Dr. Maren Hofius and Jannis Kappelmann are joined by Prof. Dr. Franziska Müller, Zoe Huppertz and Valentin Lechner. The Working Group "A Moral Compass? Enquiring into the Potential of Feminist Theory and Practice to shape a Sustainable International Society" aims to explore feminist transformative answers to the polycrisis. 

Living through interrelated existential risks such as war, autocracy, crumbling human rights, a pandemic, nuclear or ecological crises - the phenomenon of a ‘Polycrisis’ opens up theoretical and empirical puzzles. Dealing with a myriad of issues simultaneously calls for an orientation point, a moral compass and a vision for a sustainable future. For over 120 years, feminists in civil society and academia have criticised the status quo but also developed visions to transform global and local societies in a sustainable way. These visions can be, and indeed are being utilised by politicians and civil society actors who aim to translate feminist thought into practice. This project aims to map the potential of Feminist thought to tackle the polycrisis and shape a sustainable international society and aims to spell out what feminist thought envisions as a sustainable society. The project is preparing to dive into two questions: how can feminist visions guide the transformation from societies suffering from interrelated crises to sustainable societies? And how is feminism both contesting the status quo and is itself internally contested through differing conceptions of Feminism? 

More information on the working group can be found on the website of the Center for Sustainble Society Research (CSS).