Moving Forward–Trajectories Towards Gender-Just Transversal Citizenship in Northern Ireland
摘要
This chapter explores how transversal politics in women’s cross-community activities in contemporary Northern Ireland can be utilised to inform a multi-tier citizenship that promotes gender-equal citizen participation. It discusses ways of moving forward—both in terms of channelling women’s voices and political grassroots work into formal politics, and by bridging the gap between the region’s feminist and women’s sectors. The impact of Brexit on women’s rights and funding for grassroots organising is problematised, together with the shrinking community space for women. The potential for legacy-based activities, constitutional conversations and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to inspire shared learning and activism among the feminist and women’s sectors is also discussed. Different party-political and civic routes to bridging the formal/informal political divide are evaluated in terms of their potential to promote a transversal gender-just citizenship that can (a) recognise and accommodate multi-tier intersectional identities, (b) encourage multi-sited citizen participation and (c) facilitate coalitions across (ethno-national) difference.