Mapping antipreneurship within the global anti-gender project

Gender Studies Seminar with Isobel Squire (Malmö University, Sweden)

Mapping antipreneurship within the global anti-gender project

Abstract

In the context of continued anti-gender mobilisation, antipreneurship offers a useful lens to conceptualise actors to this global project. Antipreneurship is a mode of behaviour wherein actors work to defend status quo norms against efforts to induce norm change. In the context of sustained pushback against gender and sexual equality norms, antipreneurship offers a lens to understand how these standards are contested while stereotypical gender roles and exclusive heteronormative values are defended. The production and promotion of such alternative gender agendas have significant and far-reaching consequences and are gaining rapid momentum. 

Drawing on insights from a decade of research on anti-gender mobilisation, this talk traces the growing influence of some of the key actors spearheading contemporary contestations of gender equality. It examines their evolving strategies, shifting objectives, and emerging patterns of organising, illustrating how antipreneurial dynamics impact the global landscape of gender politics.

Bio

Dr Isobel Squire holds a PhD in Global Politics from Malmö University and currently works as a lecturer at the Department of Global Political Studies. Her doctoral project focused on the production and promotion of alternative gender norms by anti-gender actors and examined the contestation of the Istanbul Convention in Hungary and Poland. Her research interests include politicisations of gender and sexuality within the global anti-gender project, the politics of violence against women and norm contestation.

Chair: Ov Cristian Norocel, Associate Professor in Gender Studies, Department of Sociology, Lund University

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