Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania
Norocel, Ov Cristian LU
and Băluță, Ionela
(2023)
In Problems of Post-Communism
p.153-162
- Abstract
- We approach critically the assertion that a referendum ultimately defends the “traditional family,” by examining the articulation of anti-gender politics in Romanian parliamentary debates. We contribute theoretically by employing the concept of retrogressive mobilization in plebiscitary circumstances. We show that in Romania the contours of retrogressive mobilization transgress both the ideological left–right cleavage, and even party loyalty. We demonstrate how the ideological work done for the fantasmatic logics of retrogressive mobilization articulates two antithetical narrative scenarios, both centering on the Orthodox “nature” of the Romanian nation, whose existence and survival are said to hinge on the protection of the “traditional... (More)
- We approach critically the assertion that a referendum ultimately defends the “traditional family,” by examining the articulation of anti-gender politics in Romanian parliamentary debates. We contribute theoretically by employing the concept of retrogressive mobilization in plebiscitary circumstances. We show that in Romania the contours of retrogressive mobilization transgress both the ideological left–right cleavage, and even party loyalty. We demonstrate how the ideological work done for the fantasmatic logics of retrogressive mobilization articulates two antithetical narrative scenarios, both centering on the Orthodox “nature” of the Romanian nation, whose existence and survival are said to hinge on the protection of the “traditional family” from “LGBT ideology.” (Less)
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- author
- Norocel, Ov Cristian
LU
and Băluță, Ionela
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Romania, Anti-genderism, retrogressive mobilization, referendum
- in
- Problems of Post-Communism
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- M. E. Sharpe
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85117252834
- ISSN
- 1075-8216
- DOI
- 10.1080/10758216.2021.1987270
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- efbbcc54-6c0b-425d-8acc-e256aa1d117e
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