Deadline- 20 October 2013
Conference is being organized on Arctic/Northern Women: Law And Justice, Development And Equality. This conference will take place in Kingston, Ontario from Feb 28 – Mar. 1, 2014. The main goal of this conference is to focus on how Canada and other northern countries are undergoing rapid changes in climate, economic development, employment, environmental, and political priorities. Also conference will focus on how these changes affect women’s legal, economic, and social status with particular reference to challenges facing indigenous, northern, racialized, and immigrant women.
Topics covered-
- First Nations, Inuit, and Metis women – activism, rights, and law
- Indigenous women in other countries
- Traditional economies and reciprocal relationships
- Self-governance and political agency
- Environmental issues, including human and ecological degradation, settlements, and human health
- Legal education and legal needs of indigenous and northern women
- The ‘paradox of plenty’ and nonrenewable resource extraction
- Food, shelter, and wellbeing in northern regions
- Fiscal policies and tax jurisdictions
- Commons, users, and concepts of property, including traditional knowledges
- Science, nation building, and militarization in circumpolar states
- State systems and policy options
- Demographics of northern and extractive regions
- Globalization and interstate politics
- Corporate governance
- De/re/neo/colonizations
- Economic development and social inequalities
- Public services and accountability
- Sexual assault, trafficking, and violence
- Maternal and reproductive health
- International human rights
- Reproductive health and genetics
- Law and policy reform related to any of these substantive topics, based on doctrinal, theoretical, empirical, comparative, or interdisciplinary approaches
Eligibility & Criteria-
FLSQ invites academic and practicing lawyers, policy analysts, interdisciplinary and comparative scholars and experts, students in law and other disciplines, community members, and those involved in research and governance to submit proposals for papers that examine issues relevant to this broad area of engagement.
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