Menopausing: Exploring diversity, awareness  and activism

Through transnational to national and local scales of knowledge production, the project will scrutinize how awareness may lead to changes in practices and policies for diverse people in concrete spaces and relationships. By zooming in on diverse visions of what is good menopausing and ageing, the ultimate aim of the project is to understand how and which collective practices can tackle the interlocking stronghold of patriarchy and ageism, one of the most consequential oppressions in current social structures.

To develop novel concepts that approach menopausing through epistemological pluralism, outside and besides medicalised management and offer a perspective on diversity, awareness and activism as processes leading towards social transformation, countering patriarchy, racism and ageism.

• • To advance innovative methodologies transnationally, combining ethnographies, examination of institutionalisation processes and flows of ideas and praxis through big data analysis to discuss processes of gender and ageing that extend beyond the borders of a particular state

• •  To examine menopause awareness across analytic and geographic scales in transnational contexts: diverse gendered bodies, transnational homes and workplaces, public spaces online and offline

• • To scrutinise forms of menopausing activism from political demands to subtle form of peer-influence to decipher how transnational settings advance social change in diverse spaces

• • To advance innovative methodologies transnationally, combining ethnographies, examination of institutionalisation processes and flows of ideas and praxis through big data analysis to discuss processes of gender and ageing that extend beyond the borders of a particular state

• • Patchwork ethnography,

• • Digital and institutional ethnographies,

• •  Life course interviews,

• •  Observations,

• • Text-mining,

• • Small group digital media methods, using feminist data science principles