Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania
Norocel, Ov Cristian LU
and Pettersson, Katarina
(2025)
In European Journal of Politics and Gender
8(1).
p.189-206
- Abstract
- This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliamentary debates ensuing these proposals, we evidence how anti-gender politics developed in ways specific to each examined polity and served as a key vehicle for different manners of retrogressive mobilisation, which bypassed left–right ideological cleavages and party loyalty. We scrutinise critically... (More)
- This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliamentary debates ensuing these proposals, we evidence how anti-gender politics developed in ways specific to each examined polity and served as a key vehicle for different manners of retrogressive mobilisation, which bypassed left–right ideological cleavages and party loyalty. We scrutinise critically the discursive scenarios that coalesce in anti-gender politics in the two countries, and we map out both the commonalities and differences between the antithetic narrative scenarios, which hinge on the position of the child within a heteronormative nuclear family and the depiction of marriage equality as a harbinger of an impending societal collapse. (Less)
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- Norocel, Ov Cristian
LU
and Pettersson, Katarina
- organization
- publishing date
- 2025
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Anti-genderism, politics, Finland, Romania, LGBT rights, referandum, citizens' initiative
- in
- European Journal of Politics and Gender
- volume
- 8
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 18 pages
- publisher
- Bristol University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85218026789
- ISSN
- 2515-1088
- DOI
- 10.1332/251510821X16832281009645
- project
- An ethnographic exploration of anti-genderism: ideas, identities and political practices in the Nordic region
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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