Narratives of Gender, War Memory, and EU-Scepticism in the Movement Against the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Croatia

Abstract

The chapter analyses how the movement against the Istanbul Convention in Croatia used historical memory to frame the Convention and argue against gender and sex-based equality. It begins with the assumption of a mutually shaping relationship between memory agents and memory regimes to explore how the movement's discourses emerged from post-accession shifts in Croatia's discursive opportunity structures. To map the ties between the movement's discourses and pre-existing nationalist discourses, we use Van Leeuwen's theory of recontextualisation. We argue that post-accession, EU membership could no D. Obajdin (B)