Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space

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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.

Roman Kuhar is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the former dean of the Faculty of Arts.

Adriana Zaharijević is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

The open access 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.” It advances knowledge in the area of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike. 

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“This book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in how the global attack on gender works locally as well as the history and power of resistance movements that bind many of the post-Yugoslav regions and countries.  The story of these struggles is importantly located in the history of Yugoslavian feminism, its changes in the last decades as religious institutions gain more power, as opposition to the EU rises, paying keen attention to the specific forms in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia.  Although the anti-gender movement has been thoroughly studied throughout Europe and Latin America, this is the first comprehensive study to tell the story of this struggle, drawing on history, ethnography, philosophy, and both psycho-social and socio-economic analysis.   This will be required reading for anyone interested in crafting a global picture of gender and feminist struggles in our time.” (Judith Butler, author of “Who's Afraid of Gender?”)

“The campaigns against “gender ideology” (or “gender theory”) have spread throughout the world. Indeed, they play a crucial role in the rise of neofascist regimes. But this internationalization does not imply that the terms are the same in different regions and countries: national contexts matter. Hidden Connections’ much-needed collection adds an important chapter to the mosaic of studies on these mobilizations. The focus on the post-Yugoslav space, with an emphasis, despite national and nationalist divisions between these seven states, on the “secret bond” inherited from a common past, makes it possible to navigate between different scales and recount different histories that still resonate together. Given the regional dimension of ethno-nationalism, the post-Yugoslav space could well serve as a paradigm for thinking about an “illiberal” turn that is not just, though it is also, about gender.” (Éric Fassin, professor of sociology and gender studies, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France)

“In a world where debates on gender have become deeply polarized, this book offers essential examination of the roots and dynamics of anti-gender mobilizations within the unique socio-political fabric of the post-Yugoslav space, highlighting ruptures and continuities. This volume is a miniature showroom of global developments and is therefore a must-read for students, scholars, and activists.” (Dr Koen Slootmaeckers, City St George’s, University of London)

“The contributions in this excellent volume explore the post-Yugoslav space in respect to the “secret bonding” between feminist and LGBT activists and movements ever since the 1980s, to counter nationalist, religious, and xenophobic anti-gender mobilization, on the one hand, and a newly militarized patriarchy after the wars in the 1990s, on the other. Accompanying the much too rarely documented, difficult trajectory into the “West”, the book documents in detail how the feminist and LGBT movements in the new nation-states remained in touch – against many obstacles –, involved in peace-making endeavors, transcending ethno-nationalist attitudes and ideologies, and embracing Western values. A must-read for scholars and lay-persons alike interested in understanding social movements in their fight for visibility, equality, and basic human rights.” (Em. Professor Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University/University Vienna)

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