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Anti-Gender Mobilizations, Religion and Politics: An Italian Case Study
No full textThis book presents an innovative exploration of the rise of political forces that have coalesced around the anti-gender movement, shaping strategies that advocate novel intersections of religion, politicization of gender and sexuality, and radical and populist rejuvenation of conservative ideologies. Through an extensive examination of activist discourses and mobilizations, the author offers a comprehensive political analysis of anti-gender mobilization, encompassing a multidimensional examination of religious, activist, and political opportunity structures. This study unveils three distinct facets characterizing these emerging (Catholic) movements: their relative autonomy from the Church (extra-ecclesiastical), their divergence from conventional religious frameworks (extra-Catholic), and their party-political alignment within the far-right area. The author proposes a new perspective on this burgeoning Catholic cause, contextualizing it within the transnational dynamics underscored by the existing literature. Particularly noteworthy is the scrutiny of internal reshaping within the Italian political Catholicism realm between the 1990s and the 2000s set against the backdrop of the dissolution of the Christian Democratic Party. Through the lens of the Italian landscape, this study extends its analysis to offer broader insights into the contemporary political uses of religion within democracies, along with contentious issues arising from gender and sexuality debates, transcending the confines of the Italian context. This book holds significant relevance for scholars and students engaged in gender studies, religious studies, social movements, populism, political science, political sociology, political history, and Italian studies
The Moral Politics of LGBTI Asylum: How the State Deals with the SOGI Framework
No full textThe article proposes a political ethnography of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) asylum founded on a fieldwork (2017-19) in an associative and activist context that supports LGBTI asylum applicants. Through the analysis of the narratives mobilized and produced during the interviews between asylum applicants and institutional agents in charge of receiving and assessing the requests for international protection, the article explores the institutional uses of the SOGI framework. The hypothesis that the article puts forward is that, far from concerning exclusively a confrontation/dispute among models of sexual orientation and gender identity, these interactions actually bring forth a logic of exchange of moral goods (vulnerability, feelings of shame and fear, identity, narratives). Given the impossibility for LGBTI asylum applicants to produce probatory documentation, this study exposes the strategies for determining legitimate from illegitimate LGBTI migrant subjects, 'good' from 'bad' migrant stories, and, therefore, the political and moral dimension of the institutional work and the grant of the right of asylum
Vie privée, morale publique : le fascisme italien et la "question" homosexuelle
No full textThis article analyses the Fascist attitude towards homosexuals, the strategies and motivations for repressive actions taken against them, and the masculine canon and lifestyle that the Fascist regime tried to disseminate. The emphasis placed on sexual morality and virility, as well as accusations of “pederasty”, allows us to understand the political use of the question of homosexuality in personal rivalries to gain positions of power and discredit opponents or create distance from inconvenient figures. At the same time, disapproval of homosexuality was not always applied in practice. Individuals who led a double life, yet formally adhered to the standards of respectability, were able to elude the encroachment of politics and repressive actions in their lives. Homosexuality, in fact, was tolerated as long as it remained within the private sphere. So the analysis of this thorny relationship between public and private reveals the impact of the Fascist totalitarian experiment on customs and daily life, as well as the difficulties encountered by the regime in implementing its anthropological revolution of the Italian people
La naissance de la formule « LGBT » en France et en Italie : une analyse comparative des discours de mobilisation
Full text linkThe analysis of the creation of the “LGBT” formula, an activist reference that allowed the emergence of the space of LGBT activism (united and plural), allows us to understand the critical role of discursive strategies in the LGBT collective action. The article proposes a French-Italian bottom-up comparative approach to show that, even though successful international discourses contributed to inform local activist strategies, the configuration of the space of LGBT activism is strongly related to national context and to the activist and political local field. Firstly, the article presents political and historical data to theorize a French model of recognition and an Italian model of political inopportunity. Secondly, the article analyzes the emergence of the LGBT formula during the organization of the first World Pride in 2000, and focuses on the uses and forms of appropriation of the LGBT mobilization discourse in France and in Italy
ROMAN KUHAR ET DAVID PATERNOTTE (eds). Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality. Londres, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017, X-292 pages
No full textRecension d'un des livres les plus important sur les mobilisations anti-genre en Europe
La juridicisation du politique
No full textThe review of this book introduces some epistemological issues in the sociologie of the law
L'hypothèse néocatholique. Politiques, mouvements et mobilisations anti-genre en Italie
No full textLe livre retrace la trajectoire des nouveaux mouvements catholiques entre la fin du XXe et le début du XXIe siècle en Italie. Comment la lutte contre la « théorie du genre », le mariage pour tous, l'homoparentalité, l'avortement a-t-elle permis de recomposer le champ de la mobilisation pro-vie et de l’action politique catholique ? Quel rôle la Manif pour tous a-t-elle joué dans le contexte italien ? Quelles leçons peut-on tirer de ce cas d’étude ? Partant d’une analyse de la cause anti-genre dans l’espace du catholicisme contestataire et de son appropriation par la droite radicale italienne, l’auteur propose une étude des conflits, des événements et des échanges militants qui ont marqué l’émergence et la construction d’une hypothèse néocatholique
Resisting the Epistemic Straight Gaze in the Anti-gender Era: Italian LGBTIQ+ Studies and Scholars, 2013–2023
Full text linkThis article discusses the challenges faced by scholars involved in gender and LGBTIQ+ studies and research, within a context of increased attacks by anti-gender coalitions of social movements and parties. It highlights the precarious and vulnerable position of gender and LGBTIQ+ scholars in an academic environment set by neoliberal agendas and anti-gender rhetoric. The contribution reflects on the role of academic institutions in reinforcing dominant power structures and the resistance efforts by LGBTIQ+ scholars against this backdrop. The study underscores the importance of understanding these dynamics for the future o fLGBTIQ+ studies and the broader context of academic freedom and knowledge production in Italy and beyond
A traditionalist pattern of morality politics in the Italian parliament: the case of same-sex civil partnerships
No full textThis article analyses the Italian parliamentary debate on the Same-sex Civil Partnerships (SSP) bill, highlighting a ‘traditionalist’ pattern in Italy’s morality politics. It investigates the multifaceted arguments brought to the debate, revealing a range of stances within and across parties. The study emphasizes a shift from religious justifications to post-materialist argumentative frames deployed by MPs to influence the highly conflictual negotiation process in a context of external and internal pressures. It posits that the traditionalist model in Italian morality politics is defined by a complex array of argumentative framing strategies that transcend party lines. This approach is pivotal in understanding the nuanced legislative outcome of the SSP bill – falling, strictly speaking, neither into the category of success nor into the category of failure – which recognized same-sex partnerships but fell short of equating them with marriage (notably excluding same-sex parenting and filiation rights) and preventing them from being recognized as families
La fabbrica dell'orgoglio. Una genealogia dei movimenti LGBT
No full textAttraverso un’analisi delle politiche di movimento (liberazionista, istituzionalista, frocialista, civica e civile, ecc.), si mettono in luce le dinamiche di affiliazione e i regimi di appartenenza che, tra il 1974 e il 1985, hanno contribuito a “movimentare” lo spazio dell’attivismo omosessuale. Lo studio dei rapporti di forza e delle interazioni conflittuali tra i gruppi, i collettivi e le associazioni, del confronto e dello scontro tra diversi progetti e visioni della mobilitazione invita a un’interpretazione multidimensionale delle modalità di produzione e di circolazione delle politiche dell’omosessualità. L’ipotesi centrale è che, lungi dal costituire la debolezza del movimento, la sua costitutiva dimensione conflittuale rappresenta il motore della fabbrica della mobilitazione
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