Map
From late 2022 to the end of 2023, we mapped how ‘anti-gender’ politics are produced and expressed in contemporary Europe. We 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. We also used controversy mapping techniques to examine intensive outbursts of ‘anti-gender’ politics in these countries. Our findings reveal how anti-gender politics is a dynamic political landscape characterised by increasingly hardened ideological positions, political opportunism and a restless search for new targets of discrimination.
If you want to find out more about what we’ve found, you can read the outputs from the Mapping Stage here:
If you would like to read the Transnational Findings, you can find them here in Català (Catalan), English, Français (French), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), Magyar (Hungarian), Polski (Polish), Español (Spanish) and Türkçe (Turkish). These findings bring together the case studies to offer an overall insight.
To access our findings please take a look at the RESIST Research Summary tool we have produced, in English. Here you will find a 30 page outline of what the Mapping Stage found. It will be made available at a later date in Français (French), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), Magyar (Hungarian), Polski (Polish) and Türkçe (Turkish).
The Press Releases for the Mapping Stage Findings can be read here in Català (Catalan), Deutsch-Deutschland (German-Germany), Deutsch-Schweiz (German-Switzerland), English, Français (French), Ελληνικά (Greek), Magyar (Hungarian), Polski (Polish), Español (Spanish) and Türkçe (Turkish).
You can read in detail about each of the Case Studies Findings: Hungary, Poland, Schweiz-Deutsch (Switzerland-German), Switzerland (English), UK, and European Parliament.
Finally, if you would like to read the Full Report, containing the Transnational Findings, the National and European Parliament Reports, and how this research was undertaken, you can read it here.
Listen
In 2024 we 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.
If you want to find out more about what we’ve found, you can read the outputs from the Listen Stage here:
The Stage 2 Full Report can be read here in English, containing the Transnational Findings, individual Case Study Findings, Relief Maps, and details of how this research was undertaken.
The Stage 2 Transnational Findings, which bring together the case study findings to offer an overall insight, are available here in full in English and Ελληνικά (Greek), and in summary form in Català (Catalan), Deutsch (German), Ελληνικά (Greek), Русский (Russian), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish) and Türkçe (Turkish).
To read a summary of our findings for each of the nine case studies, please take a look at the Case Study Summary Findings for Deutschland – Deutsch (Germany – German), Ελλάδα – Ελληνικά (Greece – Greek), España – Castellano (Spain – Spanish), Espanya – Català (Spain – Catalan), France – Français (France – French), Polska – Polski (Poland – Polish), Беларусь – Русский (Belarus – Russian), Schweiz – Deutsch (Switzerland – German), Suisse – Français (Switzerland – French), and Sürgün – Türkçe (In Exile in the EU – Turkish).
The Press Releases for the Listen Stage Findings can be read here for Ελλάδα – Ελληνικά (Greece – Greek) & Greece (English), España – Castellano (Spain – Spanish), Espanya – Català (Spain – Catalan), In Exile in the EU – English, France – Français (France – French), Im Exil – Deutsch (In Exile in the EU – German), Deutschland – Deutsch (Germany – German), Ireland – English, Poland – English, Polska – Polski (Poland – Polish), Schweiz – Deutsch (Switzerland – German), Suisse – Français (Switzerland – French), Spain (Catalonia & Basque Country) – English, Sürgün – Türkçe (In Exile in the EU – Turkish), Switzerland – English and Transnational – English.
You can read about each of the Case Study Findings in full here for Belarus – English, Deutschland – Deutsch (Germany – German), Ελλάδα – Ελληνικά (Greece – Greek), Greece – English, France – English, Germany – English, In Exile in Europe – English, Ireland – English, Poland – English, Spain (Catalonia & Basque Country) – English and Switzerland – English.
Collaborate
As part of Stage 3 we will host workshops in the case study countries, bringing together 40 queer feminist collectives and organisations to generate collaborative research about existing strategies to counter ‘anti-gender’ politics and form the basis of a coordinated strategy for a transnational, intersectional, queer feminist network.
Stay tuned, via our Newsletter and here on this page, to read what this next stage of our project discovers.