The Centaur’s Kick: Backlash as Disruptive Upgrades to Patriarchal Orders
dc.contributor.author | Edstrom, Jerker | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-28T15:17:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-28T15:17:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-02-26 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Edström, J. (2024) 'The Centaur’s Kick: Backlash as Disruptive Upgrades to Patriarchal Orders', IDS Bulletin 55.1: 71–84, DOI: 10.19088/1968-2024.107 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/18249 | |
dc.description.abstract | Backlash is not always pushing back against progress for women, but how is it still patriarchal? Sliced into three sections – on confluence, contestations, and cartographies – this article draws on a thesis about backlash as the exploitation of insecurity wrought by apparent crises to re/shape social orders, through re-fixing symbolic sites, namely the body, family, and nation. It begins by describing a confluence of types of actors and projects silencing feminist voice. Contesting gendered backlash narratives about the three sites are then explored, followed by a more theoretical section reflecting on cartographies of resonant concurrence and contradictions in backlash. Reflecting on masculinities, identification, and levels of hegemonic power, the argument is that the fixing of sites re/naturalises three deep-level patriarchal logics – phallogocentric binary (body), hierarchical (family), and categorical closed-systems (nation) principles – which helps us theorise the evolution of patriarchal hegemonies. This may inform more strategic countering of backlash. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;55.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.subject | Politics and Power | en |
dc.title | The Centaur’s Kick: Backlash as Disruptive Upgrades to Patriarchal Orders | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2024.107 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-02-26 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.19088/1968-2024.107 | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | e4b8632d-62dd-4f31-9936-43860ac26f9a | en |
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