Abstract This introduction presents the analytical framework for the special issue ‘Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks’. Our contribution investigates how different configurations of i. actors and identities, ii. causes and conditions, and iii. mechanisms and trajectories can be related to the building of anti-gender transnational contention. Moving from social movement approaches, the article disentangles the definitions of anti-gender collective actors and of transnationalization and diffusion vis-à-vis various organizational and background factors. It argues that we have to look at contextual opportunities (such as European integration and radical-right transnationalization), the 'gender ideology' and 'natural family' frames, as well as events and practices, to comprehensively account for the weaving of anti-gender networks transcending national borders. The interplay of religious resources and conservative familial identity politics are diffused bottom-up and top-down depending on contextually specific threats and opportunities. The role of the Internet for the transnationalization of the contemporary radical right is also highlighted.
Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks
manuela caiani
;ivan tranfic
In corso di stampa
Abstract
Abstract This introduction presents the analytical framework for the special issue ‘Weaving the Transnational Anti-Gender Networks’. Our contribution investigates how different configurations of i. actors and identities, ii. causes and conditions, and iii. mechanisms and trajectories can be related to the building of anti-gender transnational contention. Moving from social movement approaches, the article disentangles the definitions of anti-gender collective actors and of transnationalization and diffusion vis-à-vis various organizational and background factors. It argues that we have to look at contextual opportunities (such as European integration and radical-right transnationalization), the 'gender ideology' and 'natural family' frames, as well as events and practices, to comprehensively account for the weaving of anti-gender networks transcending national borders. The interplay of religious resources and conservative familial identity politics are diffused bottom-up and top-down depending on contextually specific threats and opportunities. The role of the Internet for the transnationalization of the contemporary radical right is also highlighted.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.