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The Feminist Project under Threat in Europe

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  • Mieke Verloo

    (Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, the Netherlands)

  • David Paternotte

    (Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Abstract

Is the feminist project under threat in Europe? This thematic issue addresses the question in both theoretical and empirical ways, focusing on the various ways in which feminist politics are opposed and why, on what the impact of such opposition is, and how to improve our theoretical understanding of this particular manifestation of gender and politics. The issue addresses three major challenges: a need to reflect on the most suited concepts and theories in political and social sciences to understand what is at stake in Europe today; a need to vernacularize existing knowledge while forging global frames of analysis; and a need to avoid the risk of reifying oppositional forces and of reiterating dichotomous frames and categories. The responses to these challenges are: to analyse the threats to the feminist project as parts of larger projects against social justice and equality; to contrast macro narratives by engaging with the microlevel of the anti-feminist project, enabling a critique of mainstream scholarship; to analyse the threats to the feminist project as related to processes of changes to democracy, such as democratic backsliding; to give prominent attention to discursive, epistemic and symbolic processes; and finally to include studies on the response of feminist actors to the threats experienced. This collection of articles offers a variety of perspectives on the various threats to the feminist project in Europe today.

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  • Mieke Verloo & David Paternotte, 2018. "The Feminist Project under Threat in Europe," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 1-5.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:poango:v:6:y:2018:i:3:p:1-5
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    1. David Paternotte & Roman Kuhar, 2018. "Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 6-19.
    2. Ana Miškovska Kajevska, 2018. "A Foe of Democracy, Gender and Sexual Equality in Macedonia: The Worrisome Role of the Party VMRO-DPMNE," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 55-66.
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    5. Hürcan Asli Aksoy, 2018. "Gendered Strategies between Democratization and Democratic Reversal: The Curious Case of Turkey," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 101-111.
    6. Andrea Krizsan & Conny Roggeband, 2018. "Towards a Conceptual Framework for Struggles over Democracy in Backsliding States: Gender Equality Policy in Central Eastern Europe," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 90-100.
    7. Mieke Verloo, 2018. "Gender Knowledge, and Opposition to the Feminist Project: Extreme-Right Populist Parties in the Netherlands," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 20-30.
    8. Petra Meier & Eline Severs, 2018. "The Dark Side of Descriptive Representation: Bodies, Normalisation and Exclusion," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 31-42.
    9. Sylvia Walby, 2018. "Is Europe Cascading into Fascism? Addressing Key Concepts including Gender and Violence," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 6(3), pages 67-77.
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