Gender and Far Right in Europe

When? 5 April 2017 - 9:00am

Where? ​​​​​​​Nador u. 15 Auditorium, Central European University, Budapest

The event is systematic consideration of the link between the extreme right and the discourse about developments in regard to gender issues within different national states. The contributors analyze right-wing extremist tendencies in Europe under the specific perspective on gender. The discussion with the authors of Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe, editors Michaela Köttig, Renate Bitzan, Andrea Petö (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) brings together the few existing findings concerning the quantitative dimension of activities carried out by men and women in different countries, and illuminates and juxtaposes gender ratios along with the role of women in right-wing extremism. Along with the gender-specific access to right-wing groups, the lectures look at networks, organizational forms, specific strategies of female right-wing extremists, their ideologies (especially regarding femininity and masculinity), hetero normativity, discourses on sexuality, and preventive and counter-strategies.

The event is organized in cooperation with the Department of Gender Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Budapest.

For more information please visit the website.

View the book: Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe

Exploring the Dark Side. Theorising Resistances and Opposition to Gender+ Equality in Comparative Perspective 

When? 25 - 30 April 2017

Where? ECPR Joint Sessions, University of Nottingham, UK

Workshop Director: Mieke Verloo, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Workshop Co-Director: David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles

While resistances to feminist and sexual politics and to gender+ and sexual+ equality are not new at all, they have become more visible and have partly transformed in recent years, certainly in Europe. They can now be found at national and international level, and involve different kinds of actors and mechanisms. This new situation is characterised by a double phenomenon: we see an increasing polarization in politics and an increased politicisation of gender and sexuality politics, leading to changing faces of opposition and to changing alliances of oppositional

actors.

For more information please visit the website.

View the book: Gender and the Economic Crisis in Europe