Abstract:In this article, we discuss the narratives of struggle, resistance, and counter-resistance over the rights of the LGBT+ community at several Polish universities, which remain unnamed in order to protect our informants. In particular, we look at the discourses of LGBT+ groups struggling to establish or maintain organizations of various forms (from students’ study circles to union-like institutions) within the context of internal university structure, Polish academic culture and current political developments in… Show more
“…Their narratives are transformative because they turn suffering and mourning into collective political struggle that disturbs structural oppression. Pakuła and Chojnicka (2020) outline an 'interagentive matrix' of resistance strategies developed by LGBT+ students and activists in Polish universities. To resist discriminatory practices on several scales, including systemic trans-and homophobia, everyday 'jocular' abuses and rightwing student groups' agitation, the queer students form advocative groups, organise queer lectures and reading circles and support each other individually.…”
Section: Embodied and Linguistic Resistancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, at times their resistance strategies are faced with counter-resistance by bureaucratic procedures of the institution or by individual moralistic vigilantes. In such cases, LGBT+ activists found new resistance strategies, such as removing the terms 'gender' and 'sexuality' from titles for seminars and dissertations but keeping the contents the same (Pakuła andChojnicka 2020:1774). Several other papers from this special issue will be discussed in later sections of this review.…”
Section: Embodied and Linguistic Resistancementioning
The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse populations across the world. To prepare our field’s pan-global future, this year-in-review overrepresents literature on gender, sexuality and language from/on the Global South. This decolonial move aims to notice and promote southern tactics of resistance, southern epistemologies and southern theories and evaluate what can be learnt if we look southward on our way forward. Some literature from the Global North will be considered too. The review is structured using three overlapping foci: (1) embodied and linguistic resistance, (2) mediatisation and scale and (3) fragile masculinities. I conclude by suggesting that our research should stay locally situated and globally radical.
“…Their narratives are transformative because they turn suffering and mourning into collective political struggle that disturbs structural oppression. Pakuła and Chojnicka (2020) outline an 'interagentive matrix' of resistance strategies developed by LGBT+ students and activists in Polish universities. To resist discriminatory practices on several scales, including systemic trans-and homophobia, everyday 'jocular' abuses and rightwing student groups' agitation, the queer students form advocative groups, organise queer lectures and reading circles and support each other individually.…”
Section: Embodied and Linguistic Resistancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, at times their resistance strategies are faced with counter-resistance by bureaucratic procedures of the institution or by individual moralistic vigilantes. In such cases, LGBT+ activists found new resistance strategies, such as removing the terms 'gender' and 'sexuality' from titles for seminars and dissertations but keeping the contents the same (Pakuła andChojnicka 2020:1774). Several other papers from this special issue will be discussed in later sections of this review.…”
Section: Embodied and Linguistic Resistancementioning
The Global South is a postcolonial imagined community that bears the potential to imagine powerful south-south solidarity between the struggles for decoloniality of diverse populations across the world. To prepare our field’s pan-global future, this year-in-review overrepresents literature on gender, sexuality and language from/on the Global South. This decolonial move aims to notice and promote southern tactics of resistance, southern epistemologies and southern theories and evaluate what can be learnt if we look southward on our way forward. Some literature from the Global North will be considered too. The review is structured using three overlapping foci: (1) embodied and linguistic resistance, (2) mediatisation and scale and (3) fragile masculinities. I conclude by suggesting that our research should stay locally situated and globally radical.
Building on previous work on the anti-genderism register and moments of enregisterment, and adopting the Discourse-Historical Approach with its notion of topoi as an argumentation device used by right-wing populists, this article examines how the Catholic Church and right-wing politicians and media have mobilised against the alleged threat of ‘LGBT/gender ideology’ in Poland. Based on the analysis of 70 texts including homilies, political speeches, news articles and interviews, the article identifies three content-related topoi that are relayed across various anti-genderist actors. Together, these topoi and their repeated reuptake help to construct a historicised narrative of Poland as the defender of Christianity and of Europe, and to legitimise different actors’ anti-LGBT campaigns as they pursue their particular agendas. The article makes a contribution to exploring the processes through which the globally circulating anti-genderism register operates in a specific local context.
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