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Law and the Family in Global History

Jana Tschurenev

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This MA seminar introduces the interconnected global history of family, law, and democracy in the ‘long’ twentieth century. It is organized jointly by Dr. Jana Tschurenev and Dr. Razak Khan for the research group Democractising the Family? Gender Equality, Parental Rights and Child Welfare in Contemporary Global History, with individual sessions being led by other research group members. The seminar introduces key concepts and debates around diverse and changing (post-)modern families across several legal, political and economic systems. This includes regional perspectives from South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), Eastern (Poland and East Germany) and Western Europe (West Germany, UK), and Latin America (Brazil). We will explore these diverse regions within a comparative history framework, and within shared global policy environments, constituted by inter- and supranational bodies (such as the UN, or the Council of Europe). The different case studies covered in the seminar will bring issues of colonialism, communism, liberalism, and legal pluralism into conversation. We will study how family law – especially the regulation of the relationships between parents and their children – evolved and became a site where issues around democracy, religious diversity, secularization, and gender equality were renegotiated. This place the institution of the family at the intersection of the realms of privacy, intimacy, care, and the wider public spheres of law, politics, and the state. Can we speak of tendencies towards the democratization of the family or, instead, of legalization and intensified regulation? The reading material will include primary and secondary literature from the diverse regions and introduce students to approaches from gender and sexuality studies, legal history and global intellectual history approaches. Students will gain insight from different regional specialists working under the shared theme of family, law, and democracy. Schließen

14 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Mi, 12:00 - 14:00 14 Termine

Mi, 16.04.2025 12:00 - 14:00

Dozenten:
Jana Tschurenev