Naslov
The Anti-Gender Movement in Strategic Interaction: an Analysis of Croatia and Portugal

Autori
Gergorić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
The 13th Postgraduate Course “Feminisms in a transnational perspective”: Shifting Realities – Media, Communication, Sociability

Mjesto i datum
Dubrovnik, Hrvatska, 20.05.2019. - 24.05.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
countermovement, anti-gender movements, radical right, feminist movement

Sažetak
This paper investigates the movement-countermovement dynamics of feminist and anti-gender movements in Croatia and Portugal as part of the wider topic of radical right movement mobilization on which has been growing steadily in the last decade. Current analyses of opposing movements’ dynamics, especially with regard to feminist movements are scarce. Furthermore, existing literature on anti-gender movements does not study their trajectories or their success in relation to other movements. Taking this on board, this paper undertakes the analysis of the movement – countermovement dynamic in the contemporary contexts of Croatia and Portugal. This paired comparison assumes that the selected cases share structural conditions and historical legacies which set the parameters for political action. Importantly for this analysis, the two cases diff er in regard to anti-gender movement’s success. In Portugal the movement has so far not had significant impact on public policy outcomes, and no backsliding in human rights. In contrast to that, in Croatia the movement has achieved an array of legislative and policy success. This paper assumes that the particular evolving dynamic between the anti-gender and feminist movement help explain the success of anti-gender movements - and their lack thereof - between Croatia and Portugal. Relying on protest event data (collected through the project “Disobedient Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Contentious Politics in the European Semi-periphery”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation), this paper analyses the dynamics between these movements in Croatia and Portugal in the period between 2000 and 2017. The PEA dataset identifies numerous aspects of protest activity that enable an analysis of movement-countermovement dynamics. Therefore, this comparative analysis of factors explaining anti-gender movement success may substantially advance our understanding of the movement’s evolution in strategic interaction with feminist movements in contemporary European context.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija, Rodni studiji

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