Contentious gender politics in Italy and Croatia: diffusion of transnational anti-gender movements to national contexts

Lavizzari, Anna; Siročić, Zorica

doi:10.1080/14742837.2022.2052836

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“…39 Nonetheless, these perceived pressures were seized as a pretext to intensify the feeling of threat and crisis by a "new" family. This was done most explicitly by the radical right, invoking "white plague" or "demographic crisis" arguments, 40 but it was also done-both more subtly (especially in less eurosceptic Croatia) and more influentially (in terms of gaining access to the mainstream political arena)-by a new set of religious-conservative activists, groups, and prominent intellectuals mobilizing against gender and sexuality rights. 41 In Croatia, the first anti-gender mobilizations can be traced back to opposition to sexuality education in 2006 and again in 2012/2013.…”

Section: Contextualization Of Serbian and Croatian Cases: From Gender...mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia

Ćeriman,

Vučković Juroš

2023

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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This article focuses on the cases of Croatia and Serbia to demonstrate how the heteronormative model of family and the constructs of “protection of family and children”—which are central to anti-gender mobilizations—can be traced to the 1990s heteronationalist discourses of family in both countries. The authors argue that the crucial link between these two discourses is that they both increasingly problematize diverse family forms and imbue “traditional family” with special value as the structure that is “best for children” and therefore merits special legal and policy protection with a view to its restoration as society’s unquestionable cornerstone. The analysis of narrative content in parliamentary and public debates about family-related laws and policies in Serbia and Croatia between the 1990s and the 2020s is guided by the following questions: What are the continuities in the legal framework and narratives on the family in post-socialist Croatia and Serbia compared with the period of socialist Yugoslavia? Who are the actors who create narratives of return to a traditional family in post-socialist Croatia and Serbia, and how do these actors define family and care for the family? The article calls attention to how what is “old”—narratives of return to the traditional family—forms the backbone of religious-conservative oppositions to gender and sexuality rights, including the most recent wave of anti-gender mobilizations.

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Section: Contextualization Of Serbian and Croatian Cases: From Gender...mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia

Ćeriman,

Vučković Juroš

2023

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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“…49 Finally, in focusing on the opportunities of transnational ties for activism, we should not forget they are equally open to countermovements. 50 The transnational lens recovers the importance of local contexts and refocuses attention on the quality of the ties among activists. For digital activism scholarship, this is an important reminder of the need to recover heterogeneity and to preserve an analytic sensitivity to the struggles and tensions within transnational exchanges, ties, and processes.…”

Section: Transnational Dimensions Of Activism: Sensitivity To Local S...mentioning

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Transnational dimensions in digital activism and protest

Sorce

Dumitrica

2022

Review of Communication

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This themed issue provides an international perspective on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows, this themed issue foregrounds the interplay between the global and local in networked public spheres. Recent transnational movements such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter yield the importance of interweaving digital communication, pre-existing activist collectives, and citizen activation on a seemingly global scale. In this Introduction, we ask how political causes circulate globally, what role digital technologies play, and ultimately, what "transnational" means for seemingly universal causes, global collective identity, and activist practice. After providing an overview of the different theoretical insights that an interdisciplinary approach to digital activism can provide, we outline a conceptual framework for approaching the transnational as an entanglement of flows, hierarchies, and agencies.

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