Welcome to RESIST/ANCE, an engaging, empowering, mission-driven, strategic, collaborative game, where you can develop strategies to fight oppression, inequalities and injustice…
This is a game of interactive play, aimed at developing capacity together to counter ‘anti-gender’ mobilisations, or Challenges. This game helps us do this by exploring how such mobilisations operate, the real-world impacts they have, and Strategies to resist them in a space where you can reflect, learn, and act together. The goal is to create collective long-term Resilience to build better worlds.
It is intended that this game might facilitate discussion and foster new understandings. To aid in this, you will find team discussion prompts in italics along the way, prompting engagement with the content of the cards
Download it
The PnP (Print and Play) version of this game is available for free as a .pdf download both here and on the RESIST Zenodo Repository; you can download it, print it, and play it! Many RESIST/ANCE resource and support materials are also to be found on Zenodo.
Request it
Alternatively, you can get in touch with the project coordinator Prof. Kath Browne at kath.browne@ucd.ie to request a physical copy be posted to you, while stocks last.
Downloads
RESIST/ANCE Bundle Download
The RESIST/ANCE Bundle Download is in .zip format, and contains the following resources, each of which is linked here individually also:
RESIST/ANCE is an output of the RESIST Research Project
From late 2022 to the end of 2023, the RESIST Research Team mapped how ‘anti-gender’ politics are produced and expressed in contemporary Europe. The team analysed hundreds of parliamentary debates and thousands of media articles in four case studies focusing on the UK, Poland, Switzerland, and Hungary between 2016 and 2022. They also used controversy mapping techniques to examine intensive outbursts of ‘anti-gender’ politics in these countries. RESIST findings reveal how ‘anti-gender’ politics is creating a dynamic political landscape characterised by increasingly hardened ideological positions, political opportunism and a restless search for new targets of discrimination.
In 2024 the RESIST Research Team worked to create new understandings of the effects of ‘anti-gender’ politics on everyday lives and forms of resistance, using data gathered via interviews, focus groups and a survey across nine case studies: Belarus, people living in exile in Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain (Catalonia & Basque Country) and Switzerland.
When working with expert consultants, a suggestion of a serious game as an output that would have greater reach was mooted, and so, RESIST/ANCE was created. The prompts on the cards in this pack are derived from generalised data fragments from the RESIST Research.