In this chapter, we analyze the responses of feminist and LGBT+ movements to anti-gender mobilizations in Slovenia. Our focus is on understanding how these movements address anti-gender attacks on equality politics within the framework of “antagonistic politics,” which we define as an objective social framework that conditions the opportunities and obstacles for strategies to achieve specific political goals. Through interviews with representatives of the Slovenian feminist and LGBT+ movements, we discover that these organizations and actors employ various strategies to counter anti-gender mobilizations. These strategies can be categorized based on their approach to antagonistic structures, including direct engagement with such structures through online solidarity actions and counter-protests, overcoming them through social media moderation and public education, and ignoring them via strategic non-engagement. Our interviews also revealed that the organizations with financial resources, social capital, media access, and knowledge tend to employ more sophisticated strategies and are better equipped to navigate existing antagonistic structures. Furthermore, the broader political and legal context also plays an important role in shaping their capacity to act, as confronting antagonistic structures is inherently more feasible in democratic contexts with “stable” institutions, whereas in more authoritarian contexts, such actions are intrinsically constrained and significantly limited in scope.

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Navigating Antagonism: Feminist and LGBT+ Responses to Slovenian Anti-Gender Mobilizations

  • Rok Smrdelj

摘要

In this chapter, we analyze the responses of feminist and LGBT+ movements to anti-gender mobilizations in Slovenia. Our focus is on understanding how these movements address anti-gender attacks on equality politics within the framework of “antagonistic politics,” which we define as an objective social framework that conditions the opportunities and obstacles for strategies to achieve specific political goals. Through interviews with representatives of the Slovenian feminist and LGBT+ movements, we discover that these organizations and actors employ various strategies to counter anti-gender mobilizations. These strategies can be categorized based on their approach to antagonistic structures, including direct engagement with such structures through online solidarity actions and counter-protests, overcoming them through social media moderation and public education, and ignoring them via strategic non-engagement. Our interviews also revealed that the organizations with financial resources, social capital, media access, and knowledge tend to employ more sophisticated strategies and are better equipped to navigate existing antagonistic structures. Furthermore, the broader political and legal context also plays an important role in shaping their capacity to act, as confronting antagonistic structures is inherently more feasible in democratic contexts with “stable” institutions, whereas in more authoritarian contexts, such actions are intrinsically constrained and significantly limited in scope.