Title:Islam and Secular Modernity under Western Eyes:A Genealogy of a Constitutive Relationship
Author(s):BRACKE, Sarah; FADIL, NadiaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper considers the theoretical operations involved in sustaining secular modernity within the realm of social theory. It seeks to understand how the secular operates as an epistemological formation. We examine a set ...
Title:Islamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justice
Author(s):BAHI, RihamDate:2011-05-23Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state, religious
authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to define the role of
women in the ...
Title:Islamic Feminism and Reforming Muslim Family Laws
Author(s):AL-SHARMANI, MulkiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, I will engage with some of the recent literature that attempts to define, map out, analyze, categorize, and critique a growing body of academic scholarship that has emerged in the late 80s and early 90s and ...
Title:Justice transitionnelle et violence contre les femmes : Un aspect clé dans le processus de paix
Author(s):STOFFELS, Ruth AbrilDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:As soon as transitional justice mechanisms are instruments to address the problems of "justice" that any peace process pose, it is important to choose the most appropriate one for each different situation. This is the ...
Title:Law & Economics Perspectives on Electricity Regulation
Author(s):DE HAUTECLOCQUE, Adrien; PEREZ, YannickDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper first reviews some of the main contributions of the new institutional economics to the analysis of the process of competitive transformation of network industries. It shows that neoinstitutional analysis is ...