About

Birte Siim is Professor Emerita in Gender Research, Department of Politics and Society, Aalborg University (AAU), Campus Copenhagen, Denmark. Research interests include: Gender and Citizenship; Diversity and Intersectionality, Welfare States and Democracy, Populism and Nationalism;, Migration and Solidarity Activism. She is in the Advisory Board of FIERCE – Feminist Movements Revitalizing Democracy, EU HORIZON, Research and Innovation Actions, 2022-25; edits the Palgrave Handbook on Gender and Citizenship from Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives with P. Stoltz (fortc.) 2023. Her publications include: ‘Practices and Strategies of Gender Representation in Danish Political Parties: Dilemmas of ‘Everyday Democracy’ with L. Rolandsen Agustin and C. Fiig, in Party Politics and Implementing Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions, Lang, Meier, Sauer eds. 2022; ‘Gender and EU Citizenship’ with M. Mokre, in Abels, Krizsan, et. al. eds. The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics; ‘Patterns of Reflective Solidarity and Migrant resistance in Copenhagen and Berlin’, with S. Meret, Critical Sociology, 2021; ‘Inclusive political intersections of migration, race, gender and sexuality – the cases of Austria and Denmark’, with B. Sauer, Nora, Nordic Journal of Gender and Feminist Research;‘Gender, citizenship and intersectionality: Contending with nationalisms in the Nordic region’, in Feminisms in the Nordic region: confronting neo-nationalist and neoliberal times, Keskinen, Mulinari, Stoltz eds. 2020; The Politics and Art of Solidarity: The Case of Trampoline House in Copenhagen, with S, Meret,  in Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe, Baban and Rygiel eds. 2020, Citizens’ Activism and Solidarity Movements: Contending with Populism, with Krasteva and Saarinen eds., 2019; Diversity and Contestations over Nationalism in Europe and Canada, with Fossum and  Kastoryano eds. 2018; Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere, with M.  Mokre eds. 2013; Gender and Citizenship. Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Denmark, CUP, 2000.

Recent Publications

Agustin, L.B. & C. Fiig, B. Siim (2022). Practices and Strategies of Gender Representation in Danish Political Parties: Dilemmas of ‘Everyday Democracy’, in Party Politics and Implementing Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions. eds. S. Lang; P. Meier; B. Sauer.Palgrave/Macmillan: Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions | SpringerLink

Siim, B. & M. Mokre (2021). Gender and EU Citizenship, in Abels, Krizsan, MacRae & Vleuten (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Gender-and-EU-Politics/Abels-Krizsan-MacRae-Vleuten/p/book/9781138485259

Siim, B. & C. Fiig (2021). The Populist Challenge to Gender Equality, in Abels, Krizsan, MacRae & Vleuten (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Gender and EU Politics, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Gender-and-EU-Politics/Abels-Krizsan-MacRae-Vleuten/p/book/9781138485259

Email: siim@dps.aau.dk