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Joint Sessions
Friday, September 5, 18:00-20:00
Session 09: Joint Session of RC02, RC24
and RC23: The ‘Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy’:
Critical Perspectives.
Chair: Les Levidow, Development Policy and
Practice, Faculty of Maths, Computing and
Technology, The Open University, UK
Location: URL-A201
Session ID: RC02_09
Authors and Papers:
Kean Birch (University of Glasgow and Les
Levidow, Open University, UK) Bioeconomy'
as a self-fulfilling prophecy
Marja Häyrinen-Alestalo (University of Helsinki,
Finland) Political conflicts over the knowledge-based
bio-economy.
Stefano Ponte (Danish Institute for International
Studies, Denmark) Of ‘bad’ fish: Regulation,
eco-labels and popular culture in the
(re)construction of European bio-economies.
Larry Reynolds (Univ of Lancaster, UK,
Bron Szerszynski ) Corporate imaginaries, publics
and the knowledge-based bioeconomy
Saturday, September 6, 09:00-11:00
Session 01: Joint Session of RC05 and
RC32: Women, Intersectionality and Diasporas:
Challenges and Resistance Part I
Chair: Organizers: Ann Denis, University of
Ottawa, Canada and Sirma Bilge, Université
de Montréal, Canada ; Chair: Ann Denis, University
of Ottawa
Location: UB-FP-0.1
Session ID: RC05_01
Authors and Papers:
Sirma Bilge ( Université de Montréal, Canada)
‘Controversial Choices’: An Intersectional
Analysis of a Paradigmatic Debate on
Minority Women’s Agency
Anna Korteweg (University of Toronto, Canada)
Gender, Islam, and National Identity
Formation through Immigrant Integration Policies:
the Cases of the Netherlands and Germany
Bandana Purkayastha (University of Connecticut,
USA) Interrogating Intersectionality:
Contemporary globalization and racialized
gendering in the lives of highly educated South
Asian Americans and their children
Aparna Rayaprol (University of Hyderabad,India)
Changing Locations and Transnational
Identities
Eva Blay (University of Sa_o Paulo, Brazil)
Gender, Resistance and Identity: Jewish Immigrants
in Brazil
Catrin Lundström (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Different Shades of Whiteness: White migration
and re-imaginaries of race, gender and
class in the case of first generation Swedish
women in the U.S.
Armelle Testenoire (Université de Rouen,
France) Intersecting paradigms of redistribution
and recognition: ethnic and gender division
of labour in the hotel industry
Saturday, September 6, 11:30-13:30
Session 02: Joint Session of RC05 and
RC32: Women, Intersectionality and Diasporas:
Negotiating identity, negotiating family
dynamics in the Diaspora Part II
Chair: Ann Denis, University of Ottawa, Canada
and Sirma Bilge, Université de Montréal,
Canada; Chair: Sirma Bilge, Université de
Montréal, Canada
Location: UB-FP-0.1
Session ID: RC05_02
Authors and Papers:
Lina Samuel (York University, Canada) Mating,
Dating and Marriage: Cultural Retention,
Transformation and the Construction of Dias-
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