Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany

Hajek, Katharina; Dombrowski, Viola

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2022.102633

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“…With the rise of the LGBTQ-movement and strengthened societal ambitions to safeguard minority rights, LGBTQ-issues become increasingly important for the radical right to push back against and to construct their collective identity around. That said, radical right parties also present a paradoxical stance on gender politics as they both preach traditional family values of femininity and motherhood, and at the same time supposedly defend “women’s rights against Muslim migrants” (Hajek and Dombrowski, 2022, p. 2). Thus, they safeguard “liberal democratic values” including “emancipation of homosexuals and women”, and simultaneously claim gender equality to be an overarching state ideology to defeat (Erel, 2018, p. 175).…”

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Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate

Engström,

Carlsson,

Hanell

2024

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PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to produce new knowledge about the positions that public libraries both take and are given in the conflicts over politics and identity that play out in contemporary cultural and library policy debates. Using conflicts over drag story hour at public libraries as case, the study seeks to contribute to an emerging body of research that delves into the challenges that public libraries as promoters of democracy are confronting in the conflictual political landscape of today.Design/methodology/approachThe paper presents an analysis of debates reported in news articles concerning Drag story hour events held at Swedish public libraries. Utilizing the analytical lenses of discourse theory and plural agonistics, the analysis serves to make visible the lines of conflicts drawn in these debates – particularly focusing on the intersection of different meanings ascribed to the notion of the reading child, and how fear is constructed and used as an othering devise in these conflicts.FindingsDifferent imaginings of the reading child and the construction and imagination of fear and safety shapes the Drag story hour debates. The controversies can be understood as a challenge to the previous hegemony regarding the direction and goals of Swedish cultural and library policy and the pluralistic democratic society these policies are meant to promote.Originality/valueThe paper offers new insights into the consequences of the revival of radical right politics, populism and societal polarization, and the different responses from public libraries.

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Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate

Engström,

Carlsson,

Hanell

2024

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“…Mancini and Palazzo (2021, p. 410) write that "gender conservatism is a common trait in all illiberal scripts." The relationship between right-wing populism and gender is more complex (Hajek & Dombrowski, 2022), but Enyedi (2020) sees the heterosexual, married family as the core constituency of what he terms "paternal populism" (see also Fodor, 2022) Because of the close connection between illiberalism and anti-gender politics, several contributions to this thematic issue call for "gendering illiberalism" (Dragolea, 2022;Gaweda, 2022).…”

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Gendering De‐Democratization: Gender and Illiberalism in Post‐Communist Europe

Bogaards

Pető²

2022

PaG

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Many observers have written with concern about a growing “opposition to gender equality,” “anti‐gender campaigns,” and even a “war on gender.” Often, these trends take place in countries that are witnessing a decline in democratic quality, a process captured by such labels as “democratic erosion,” “democratic backsliding,” or “autocratization.” This thematic issue brings together literature on gender equality and de‐democratization with an emphasis on the role of illiberalism and a regional focus on post‐communist Europe.

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Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology

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Contesting the meaning of gender: Right-wing populism and gender in Germany

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Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate

Drag story hour at public libraries: the reading child and the construction of fear and othering in Swedish cultural policy debate

Gendering De‐Democratization: Gender and Illiberalism in Post‐Communist Europe

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