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How can democratic actors and institutions counteract the recent backlash against gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights? The fact that the erosion of these rights represents a central feature of democratic backsliding is well-established. Yet, the factors underpinning democracies’ ability to withstand attacks against marginalised groups have received little attention. This panel aims to (1) shift the existing focus away from democratic backsliding and towards democratic resilience; (2) broaden the concept of democratic resilience and demonstrate its contribution to gender scholarship; (3) identify and classify cases of success and failure of democratic resilience across political and geographic contexts. The papers explore important and timely questions such as: how we can conceptualize democratic resilience in the face of anti-gender backlash?; what do resistance and resilience look like in practice and how do they unfold at different levels of the political system?; what are the conditions shaping democratic actors’ successes and failures in preserving democracy? The papers identify different forms of resistance and resilience to anti-gender politics, analysing how progressive actors respond to democratic backsliding in a wide range of case studies, as well as from a comparative perspective. They propose new concepts such as gendered resilience and situational resilience and examine resistance and resilience via a range of case studies, including political parties’ resilience against the masculinist culture of the far right in Germany, the role of emotional labour in societal resilience in Romania, and the response of progressive actors to anti-gender campaigns in Portugal.
| Title | Details |
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| Between Democratic Erosion and Democratic Resilience: Conservative Women as Critical Actors Against the Normalisation of Far-Right Anti-Gender Discourse? | View Paper Details |
| Beyond Success: Rethinking Democratic Resilience and the Hidden Costs of Mobilization against Anti-Gender Politics in Romania | View Paper Details |
| Gendered Democratic Resilience: Towards a Comparative Framework | View Paper Details |
| Countering Anti-Gender Politics in Portugal: Resilience and Constraints | View Paper Details |
| Democratic resilience against the far-right gender project: the case of sexuality education | View Paper Details |