THURSDAY, JUNE 23 2022 at 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM Hausmania kulturhus
In this panel we bring up the topic of contemporary fascist movements and reactionary movements with focus on Scandinavian context.
Judith Butler (2021) in the Guardian article ” Why is the idea of gender provocing backlash the world over” drew parallels with the anti gender movement ideology and other facist tendencies in the world.
“For this reactionary movement, the term “gender” attracts, condenses, and electrifies a diverse set of social and economic anxieties produced by increasing economic precarity under neoliberal regimes, intensifying social inequality, and pandemic shutdown. Stoked by fears of infrastructural collapse, anti-migrant anger and, in Europe, the fear of losing the sanctity of the heteronormative family, national identity and white supremacy, many insist that the destructive forces of gender, postcolonial studies, and critical race theory are to blame. When gender is thus figured as a foreign invasion, these groups clearly reveal that they are in the business of nation-building. The nation for which they are fighting is built upon white supremacy, the heteronormative family, and a resistance to all critical questioning of norms that have clearly restricted the freedoms and imperiled the lives of so many people.”
The full article can be read here:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlash
It is important to underline that fascism is not the same as reactionary movements. But what are the parallels and how do they intersect, if they can be said to intersect?
There is a tendency to draw the pink line outside our own nation, the neat and tidy folkehjem is unfortunatly going up in the seems when you take a closer look. What if the tropes and reactionary tendencies we tend to place somewhere in the realm of other nations, political structures and so forth, can be found here right in our own backyard. Part of a transnational trope, but still customised to our own cultural references!
The panel consist of :
Adrien Wilkins: Antirasistisk aktivist i Oslo en stund så har jeg skrevet mastergrad om militant antifascisme i Oslo og Østlandet på 90-tallet.
Maria Darwish: andre års-phd-student i genus i Ørebro, skriver om natur, fascisme og affekt (egt økofascisme) analyserer ekofash propaganda fra telegram for øyeblikket. Master fra STK, UiO – skrev om maskulinitet og environmentalism i Den norske motstandsrørelsen.
Elisabeth Engebretsen: , henne/de, dem. Ansatt ved Senter for kjønnsstudier, universitetet i Stavanger. Forskningen min fokuserer i grove trekk på kjønns- og seksualitetsmangfold i global kontekst, skeiv historie i Norge og Norden, og aktivisme. Har nylig skrevet om Pride politikk og anti-gender bevegelser i Norge. Ellers redigerer jeg tidsskriftet lambda nordica (med Erika Alm), et nordisk lhbtqi+ fagtidsskrift (open access), og koordinerer en faggruppe, Skeiv Forskningsgruppe.
Eivind Rindal: hen/han – anarkist, aktivist og kirketjener i Trondheim. Utdannet fra NTNU innen statsvitenskap og religionsvitenskap med vekt på grenseflater mellom nasjonalisme, politikk, idéhistorie og religion. Eivind har også studert latin og klassisk retorikk. Hen er aktiv i miljøet rundet Ivar Matlaus Bokkafé på Svartlamoen og har i mange år vært en relativt aktiv stemme i mange spørsmål i Trondheim ikke minst i skeive spørsmål og høyreekstremisme. Eivind har vært aktiv i Skeivt Opprør siden starten i juni 2020 og er leder for Trondheim Pride 2022