Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Hidden Connection
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-031-92412-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: Global Queer Politics

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuhar, Roman

Zaharijevic, Adriana

Weitere Mitwirkende

Perger, Nina

Ajanovic, Edma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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

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