This project aimed to develop a larger project to explore how gendered power relations intertwine with ‘demographic crisis’ across many countries.
This project examined China, Japan, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, low fertility countries where neotraditional family models and racialized ideas of nation prevail. It explored commonalities in gender inequalities underpinning and arising from these countries’ low fertility, and how gender inequalities reflect their unique histories, cultures, political regimes, and experiences of socialism and capitalism. Questions included:
- How is care structured by gender within national developmental trajectories?
- How does masculinity interact with local demographic crises?
- How do racialised nationalisms and political systems affect responses to demographic crisis?
- How are work and care reconfigured, and with what intersectional effects?
