Transnational Dimension of Anti-Gender Politics: Networks, and Policy Diffusion

Abstract

Anti-gender politics has become a significant force in contemporary governance, circulating across regions through networks that link advocacy organisations, political elites, grassroots actors, and digital publics. These movements travel through infrastructures of cooperation, policy exchange, and ideological coordination that operate across Central and Eastern Europe, the NME/SWANA region, the South Caucasus, and Southeast Asia, while taking distinct shape within local political, religious, and institutional environments. This panel examines how anti-gender agendas move, adapt, and acquire traction as they intersect with illiberal statecraft, democratic backsliding, party strategies, and shifting regional imaginaries. Bringing together research on global conservative coordination, the transformation of organisational capacities within transnational networks, the circulation and selective adaptation of legal templates, and the uneven uptake of anti-gender repertoires in evolving political regimes, the panel highlights the mechanisms through which reactionary agendas gain influence across scales. Collectively, the panel maps different pathways through which anti-gender politics diffuses, settles, and reconfigures the relationship between global ideological projects and domestic political orders.

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