Mapping So-Called 'Anti-Gender' Discourses in Parliamentary And Media Spaces Across The 'Eastern' And 'Western' Geopolitical Imaginations of 'Europe'.
Creators: name: Kulpa, Roberto
Publisher: name: RESIST Project
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Democracy
subject: Political communication
subject: Political sciences
subject: Social sciences
subject: FOS: Social sciences
subject: Journalism
subject: Media and communications
subject: FOS: Media and communications
subject: Political policies
subject: Other social sciences
subject: FOS: Other social sciences
subject: Social geography
subject: Human rights law
subject: Inclusive education
subject: Social issues
subject: Age inequality
subject: Social inequalities
subject: Human rights violations
subject: Human rights
subject: Regional human rights
subject: Gender studies
subject: Civil society
subject: Public policies
subject: Gender equality
subject: Gender inequality
subject: International protection of human rights
subject: Racial inequality
subject: Social policy
subject: Nationalism
subject: Inequalities
subject: Equality
subject: Discrimination
subject: Occidentalism
subject: Central and Eastern Europe
subject: Europe
subject: Parliament
subject: Poland
subject: Transphobia
subject: Transgender
subject: Homophobia
subject: Homosexuality
subject: Queer
subject: Feminism
subject: LGBTIQ+
subject: Gender

description: Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas. In the ongoing battle against them, national and international queer-feminist insurgencies have been developing spaces of resistances and fightback. ‘Identity politics’, one way or another, is thus a space of tensions and dis-comforts of politics, where actors, issues, and strategies constantly manoeuvre and reposition themselves to aggregate or ease the arising frictions. Symbolic and real geo-temporalities of political loci have been a significant contributing factor in these processes.

This presentation will empirically draw on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, and the European Parliament
description: Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas. In the ongoing battle against them, national and international queer-feminist insurgencies have been developing spaces of resistances and fightback. ‘Identity politics’, one way or another, is thus a space of tensions and dis-comforts of politics, where actors, issues, and strategies constantly manoeuvre and reposition themselves to aggregate or ease the arising frictions. Symbolic and real geo-temporalities of political loci have been a significant contributing factor in these processes.

This presentation will empirically draw on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, and the European Parliament to engage with the following issues:



how ‘dis-comfort’ features as an element of the ‘anti-gender’ politics in Polish and transnational contexts;

porous and un-comfortable thresholds across media and parliaments as places of (trans)national politics;

syncretic benefits and obstacles emerging from those ‘threshold of dis-comforts’ that re-create imaginary geopolitics of ‘the ‘east’ and ‘west’ in the ‘anti-gender’ (scholarly, political, activist) debates;

thinking forward about recommendations and next steps needed in our fight against inequalities and for the better, queer-feminist futures.


Keywords:

‘anti-gender’, LGBTIQ+ equalities, parliamentary and media discourses, queer-feminist resistances, threshold politics.