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Understanding Backlash in Lebanon
(Arab Institute of Women - Lebanese American University, 2023)Facing this insidious matrix of patriarchal structures, women in Lebanon and feminists in particular are left with a few avenues for action. As explored in this paper from the Arab Institute of Women, the exclusion, ... -
Chess for Countering Backlash
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024)This Chess – Shatranj or Chaturanga - workshop exercise can be played in various ways. You can play this as an exercise – or a series of exercises – in a workshop setting. You can also do it at home or at your desk, to aid ... -
Anti-Gender Backlash: Where is Philanthropy?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-03-01)This working paper explores how philanthropic institutions with a history of supporting women’s and LGBTQI+ rights and democracy are seeing and responding to anti-gender backlash, and the background dynamics shaping the ... -
Anti-Gender Discourse in Serbian Media
(Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade, 2023-11-08)This paper seeks to lay out a critical feminist analysis of anti-gender discourse in 843 media texts published in Serbia from January 1, 2019 to October 31, 2022. A database with the largest coverage of mainstream news was ... -
Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management
(The University of Chicago, 2023-11-20)Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, ... -
Tracking Gender-Based Violence and Backlash Against Women’s Rights in the Digital Space: Cases From Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, 2022-01-22)With the increased use of the internet and the expansion of social media platforms usage worldwide, the digital space has emerged as a “new space,” playing a central role in mediating all aspects of social, economic, and ... -
Countering Backlash in the Implementation of Bangladesh's Domestic Violence Act
(Countering Backlash, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08-14)Domestic violence rates are high in Bangladesh in spite of laws such as the Nari o Shishu Nirjatan Domon Ain and the DVPPA 2010. According to data from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, almost three in every five women ... -
Reversing Domestic Workers’ Rights: Stories of Backlash and Resilience in Delhi
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08)As a partner on the cross-country comparative action research project, Countering Backlash: Reclaiming Gender Justice led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, Gender at Work Consulting – India (GWCL) is ... -
Backlash in Action? Or Inaction? Stalled Implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06-14)The Bangladesh government adopted the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act in 2010. While the formulation and enactment of the Act was an achievement for the government and the coalition that championed it ... -
Mothers vs Children: Co-opting Child Rights as Gender Backlash
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-04)This paper examines how progressive rights frameworks are instrumentalised as gender backlash tools to suppress feminist activism. I engage with the events following Rehana Fathima’s political act ‘Body and Politics’ which ... -
Unravelling Backlash in the Journey of Legislating Sexual Offences in Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-18)This paper interrogates the reality of gender backlash in Uganda by tracing the process of legislating on the 2019 Sexual Offences Bill (SOB). We trace the early beginnings of the Bill by highlighting the motivation that ... -
‘The Spatial Void Could be a Chance to Recreate’: Queer Visual Activism in the Fallout of the Beirut Blast
(Lectito Journals, 2022-12-30)On August 4th, 2020, Beirut was torn apart by a chemical explosion at its port. The blast was a consequence of dire government negligence – killing over 200 people, injuring a further 6,500, and causing massive destruction. ... -
Global Queer and Feminist Activism: An Introduction
(Lectito BV, 2022-12-30)Queer and feminist visual activism has various origins across the globe and has emerged in a fluid cultural field of visual arts, popular culture, and protest aesthetics. Given the current context of gender backlash, these ... -
Grasping Patriarchal Backlash: A Brief for Smarter Countermoves
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-03)Nearly three decades ago the UN World Conference on Women at Beijing appeared to be uniting the international community around the most progressive platform for women’s rights in history. Instead of steady advancement, we ... -
Caste and Gender Backlash: A Study of the #MeToo Movement in Tertiary Education in Kolkata, India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-03)In the light of the #MeToo movement, this paper explores how the positionality (in terms of caste and class) of female university students in Kolkata, India is employed as an instrument of backlash to pushback their efforts ... -
Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence; Understanding Gender, Development, and the Power Relations of Digital Spaces
(Routledge, 2022-09-09)Digital systems now mediate our everyday social practices, political and economic lives. But ICT4D (ICT for development) research exploring the relationship between gender, technology and development has only had a limited ... -
The Resistance Strikes Back: Women’s Protest Strategies against Backlash in India
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-07)The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen ... -
Nothing is as it Seems: ‘Discourse Capture’and Backlash Politics
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-07)In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical andanalytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporaryanti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of‘discourse capture’. I ... -
Introduction: Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis
(Routledge, 2021-12-07)Welcome to Gender & Development’s special double issue on Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis. This double issue was produced during a global pandemic that has triggered a deep economic crisis and an ...
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