Feminist Epistemic Justice in the EU and Beyond

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FEJUST builds on a feminist agenda of EU politics and embraces epistemic diversity through its content, activities, and teaching pedagogies. This chair aims to address the epistemic injustice women are exposed to in the political discourse of EU politics and encompasses a feminist and epistemically pluralistic rationale towards researching, teaching, and discussing EU-related topics from main- and male-stream areas ranging from foreign policy to cultural policies. Building on a former Jean Monnet Module on gender equality which I was part of and my track record of research on gender and the EU, I position this chair contributing to the key debates of EU policies from a feminist perspective and establishment of feminist and velvet triangles in Turkey to improve understanding of feminist agendas in policies, legislations, and mindsets. The chair is quite timely both for the Europe and Turkey where anti-gender movements are on the rise and the backlash in gender equality policies, as stipulated in the Report of the European parliament (in six member states), are in progress. FEJUST proposes meticulously designed four modules on Feminism, Gender, and EU politics both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels every year and further strengthens teaching through a series of seminars and workshops designed for early career researchers. The teaching adopts principles of flipped learning and is based on participatory and art-based activities to offer a more inclusive mode of teaching whereas the workshop and seminar series will offer democratic and safe political and participatory spaces to discuss the most concerning issues of EU politics, gender, and Turkey in the midst of increasing authoritarian context of Turkey. Thus, this chair will disrupt the androcentric masculine discourse, spaces, and discussions through its principles of feminist epistemic diversity and place the productions of feminist, decolonial, and alternative epistemes at the centre of activities.