HEИндивидуална стипендия2022–2024

CORESIST · Resistance to anti-gender politics: The role of coalitions and affects

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2024-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 175 920 €
Участници: 3
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Съпротивата срещу антиджендър политиката се анализира чрез сравнение между коалициите на активисти във Франция и Румъния. Това помага да се разбере как сътрудничеството между различни групи засилва защитата на правата на жените и LGBTQIA+ общностите в дългосрочен план.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Resistance to anti-gender politics: The role of coalitions and affects

The CORESIST project has focused on comprehending resistance to anti-gender politics and the role of coalitions, specifically by examining this process from a comparative perspective. The study compared France and Romania, two different countries in terms of political architecture, political opportunity structure, the institutionalization of gender equality at governmental level, but also regarding the historical development of their respective social movements for gender equality, LGBTQIA+ an women’s rights, sexual and reproductive rights. Through comprehensive research activities, CORESIST provided an account of the way resistance to anti-gender politics by mapping the actors who form resistance to anti-gender politics in each country, the relationships between them, their goals and strategies. Through this endeavour, a deeper understanding of the relationship between different social movement actors, feminist and gender studies researchers and political allies was achieved. An essential component of the research was to identify in what ways the foregrounding of coalitions between actors contribute to strengthening and/or weakening of the resistance to anti-gender politics. CORESIST showed that while strategic coalitions strengthen resistance to anti-gender politics on the short run by pooling resources and skills, deep coalitions fortify resistance on the long run by stemming from activists’ engagement in complex communication and crossings towards different militant worlds enhancing profound ties between them. While in Romania resistance to anti-gender politics seems to be organized transversally – across different issues targeted, in France resistance seems to be organized sectorally. Furthermore, CORESIST identified the challenges and tensions related to coalition-making such as: (1) oppressive behaviour within movements (especially racism and transphobia), (2) dissensions over autonomy (activists dilemma about collaborating or not with official institutions, governmental bodies, supranational entities), (3) the shortage of resources and the project-based work (which often led to empty coalitional structures, that nevertheless in some cases were reactivated when needed). Lastly the ER explored how did the different actors who form resistance to anti-gender politics articulate the relationship between the various issues targeted by anti-gender politics (sexual and reproductive rights; LGBTQI rights; children’s rights; gender; laws and policies against hate speech and discrimination). The project showed that while some sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTQIA+, feminist, anti-racist activists emphasize the collective history of reproductive oppression to articulate the link between their respective fights, the tension that stems from implicit exclusionary processes within movements reflect the difficulty to conciliate the necessity to concomitantly mobilise together and separately, to move beyond single-issue politics.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Gender and sexuality became highly politicized, especially after the emergence of the first anti-gender campaigns in Europe in the mid-2000s. Mobilisations took place in several countries against sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTQI rights, childrens rights, gender, laws and policies against hate speech and discrimination. While the expanding literature on anti-gender campaigns has allowed us to gain significant insights about the larger political project of those involved, we know less about resistance to anti-gender politics. Although resistance to anti-gender politics seems to involve a multiplicity of actors, internally heterogeneous, at times organised in coalitions, the sparse literature on the topic focuses mostly on single-issue movements or campaigns, adopting a rather public policy approach. When accounting for the multiple actors involved, studies are based on the implicit idea that some social groups are natural allies, as for example, women, LGBTQI or racialized people, leaving unaddressed the tensions and challenges permeating coalition-making, as well as the processes that create and maintain boundaries between actors. The present project - CORESIST attempts to fill in these gaps by analysing the ways in which the foregrounding of coalitions between actors contribute to strengthening and/or weakening of the resistance to anti-gender politics as well as the tensions and challenges that permeate coalition-making. Additionally, it will explore the ways in which different actors making resistance articulate the relationship between the various issues targeted by anti-gender politics. To do so, it adopts a comparative framework of the most dissimilar cases France and Romania, grounded in political sociology, gender studies and decolonial theory.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · Bruxelles / BrusselКоординаторБелгия
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET · KOBENHAVNДания
LINKOPINGS UNIVERSITET · LinkopingШвеция