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The book sheds light on the diverse forms of anti-gender mobilization in the post-Yugoslav space by exploring its historical trajectories, cultural variances, and different religious frames. It offers a meticulous comparative analysis of seven post-socialist countries that shared a common history, which collapsed through wars and through their different paths to Europeanisation. Gender scholars and activists have never ceased to build and rebuild ties across the new borders, fighting for freedom of speech, human rights and against their local nationalisms. Today, however, it is precisely the ultraconservative forces that speak the same language of rights but with diametrically opposing illiberal goals. The fiercest opponents in all other respects, the post-Yugoslav ultraconservatives agree that the major threat lies in the specter of gender. This volume tells a story about gender as a post-Yugoslav symbolic glue. This volume advances knowledge in the area of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. From Abortion to Abortion: Abortion Issue as the Central Thread of the Croatian Anti-Gender Movement.- 3. Building the Agenda of Concerned Citizens : The Anti-Gender Movement in Slovenia.- 4. Your Gender is a Battleground! The Case of Anti-Gender Movement in Serbia.- 5. The Old New: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in North Macedonia.- 6. Anti-Genderism on the Rise in Bosnia and Hercegovina.- 7. Gender as Collateral: Anti-gender Mobilizations in Montenegro.- 8. Anti-Gender Narratives against the Same-Sex Unions in Kosovo.- 9. Conclusion: Comparison.
About the author
Roman Kuhar is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Adriana Zaharijević is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Summary
The book sheds light on the diverse forms of anti-gender mobilization in the post-Yugoslav space by exploring its historical trajectories, cultural variances, and different religious frames. It offers a meticulous comparative analysis of seven post-socialist countries that shared a common history, which collapsed through wars and through their different paths to “Europeanisation.” Gender scholars and activists have never ceased to build and rebuild ties across the new borders, fighting for freedom of speech, human rights and against their local nationalisms. Today, however, it is precisely the ultraconservative forces that speak the same language of rights but with diametrically opposing illiberal goals. The fiercest opponents in all other respects, the post-Yugoslav ultraconservatives agree that the major threat lies in the specter of “gender.” This volume tells a story about gender as a post-Yugoslav “symbolic glue.” This volume advances knowledge in the area of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike.
