Project Vision
We are FIERCE and aim to revitalise the alliances between the feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers. We envision to rekindle the movement-institution relationship by means of a multidimensional, bottom-up and impact-oriented approach.
To this aim, we will provide an in-depth understanding of feminist and antifeminist / anti-gender movements, activities and discourses, and their impact on the institutional arena and on policy outcomes, focusing on the period between 2010-2021.
We focus on the systematic construction of eight national case studies including Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey and going beyond the specific country-level contexts and their similarities/differences, we design in addition a comprehensive and cross-cutting comparative analysis based on five policy areas:
Labour Market
Health & Reproductive rights
LGBTQ+ rights
Migration
Gender based violence
During this process we will map movements, groups and activities and then build on the abovementioned case studies to construct selected comparative cross-country analyses of the major feminist and gender debates within these pre-selected policy areas.
Apart from the analyses, and with the primary aim to link research to practice and impact generation, the project includes the co-creation of national and transnational labs connecting research with practice and activism. These will work as laboratory of ideas to identify, reinvigorate and renew democratic practices that build upon concrete alternatives and inclusive visions for the future of democracy.
In addition, the below actions/tools complement our work:
- Two “FIERCE actions” per country: bottom-up initiatives that test solutions and innovations in partnership with feminist NGOs/movements/networks to experiment democratic innovations
- A feminist summer school that strengthens peer learning opportunities and integrates those with a more structured capacity building approach, transformd in online modules
- Transnational feminist network: aimed at a continued exchange of experiences, peer review and scaling up of the experimented democratic innovations at local/national levels
- Policy briefs and a policy toolkit
As a result, a wider understanding of how the feminist and anti-feminist mobilisations intersect with the five main policy areas in the period 2010-2021 is expected to occur. This will enable an exploration of the relation of these problem framings and suggested solutions to what happened within the wider agenda-setting and decision-making process.