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Gender, (anti) Feminism and Emotions As Battlefields in Social Movements and Collective Action
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
‘New’ Social movements and ways of protest and political collective action have situated gender and emotions at the centre of public discussion.
Since the 90s we know that emotions play a huge role in social movements, in all kinds of political action (Van Ness and Summers-Effler, 2019) and in mobilization (Jasper and Owens, 2014).
Gender as a category for social classification and for social analysis is a cluster and complex configuration. Gender is relational and an intersectional category: gender justice cannot be left out in democratic states. In defending their ‘manliness’ but also their nationalism, Bolsonaro, Trump, Salvini, Orbán and other world leaders have situated gender relations and antifeminism as a key factor in the current political discourse of the nationalist right. However, gender relations and feminism are also present as a key claim of the left and particularly of the extreme left. Being at the core of human relations, gender relations are entangled, embedded and embodied with the political and the emotional.
We welcome contributions related (but not limited) to:
The role of emotions in situating gender at the core of current political discourse
The connection between gender and emotions in the current polarization of politics and collective action
How social movements and other forms of collective action incorporate gender to their programmes and outcomes
The pro or antifeminist strategies enacted, their objectives and effects
The historical and sociological links between current configurations of political and gendered public action and the past
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