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CCINDLE Newsletter: 4th Edition
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Welcome to the CCINDLE project newsletter, a guide to our latest work and news.
CCINDLE is an EU Horizon Europe project (No. 10048433) studying the threats to democracy and feminism, and the responses of feminist change-makers, engaging with them to strengthen their voices. CCINDLE works directly with feminist grassroots activists, institutional actors, and gender professionals, co-creating theoretical and practical knowledge on: - Anti-gender campaigns and how they challenge democracy, particularly through pathways to violence and politics of knowledge.
- Futures of society envisioned in feminist theories and practices related to democracy in Europe with respect to intersectional justice, inclusion, and participation.
- Feminist movements and feminist institutional responses to anti-gender and other anti-democratic forces.
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Read more about the project here. | |
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“There are no illegal people, there is illegal violence” | |
The Polish-Belarussian border as frontier to human rights and rule of law in Europe
In August 2021, a group of 40 people from Afghanistan appeared at the Polish-Belarusian border. Although they sought asylum in Europe, the border guards did not allow them to return to Belarus or enter Poland, and instead trapped them in the border strip. The situation on the Polish-Belarusian border complicates the assessment regarding a pro-democratic change in Poland after 2023.
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Why gender equality policies need to be more radical in hostile times | |
Prominent antifeminist mobilizations across Europe continue efforts to eclipse a feminist future. This blog zooms in on one institutional base for feminist responses: gender equality policies. Gender equality policies have undoubtably brought successes, thanks to the relentless and hard work of many dedicated institutional feminists. They are based on negotiated feminist understandings of gender inequality that had to overcome loads of resistances.
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The politics of digital Anti-Gender Violence: A Call to Action for Institutions and Researchers | |
Digital anti-gender (AG) violence poses significant challenges for both political institutions and researchers. Mobbing campaigns, doxxing practices and trolling attacks are commonplace experiences for female politicians and feminist researchers inhabiting online spaces. While studies have primarily focused on the ideological foundations and political activism of anti-gender groups, as well as their perpetration of violence against women in politics, there’s been a notable oversight regarding the digital dimension of AG movements and their online violence.
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Italy as (Yet Again) A ‘Lighthouse’ for Anti-Gender and Anti-Immigration Politics | |
In 2016, the President of Family Day – Difendiamo I Nostri Figli, a prominent Italian anti-gender organization, defined Italy as a ‘lighthouse’ in safeguarding Western (read as ‘Christian and white’) civilization. Since 2013, when Italian anti-gender campaigns began to emerge, the country had been framed as an outpost to counter an alleged ‘gender ideology’ (an expression purposely never translated into Italian). Since the last decade, references of attacks to ‘Italian values’ have brought anti-gender actors and right-wing parties increasingly closer, leading to a politicization of the Italian ‘anti-gender crusade’. overcome loads of resistances.
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The CCINDLE Project has published its first Evidence Bite!
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A recently published article of CCINDLE partners Paloma Caravantes and Emanuela Lombardo explores feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics. The article conceptualises feminist democratic innovations in local institutional politics exploring the feminist municipal politics of Barcelona’s local government from 2015 to 2023 (Cruells and Alfama, 2019).
We have summarised this article into an easy to digest evidence bite, check it out here! | |
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The CCINDLE Podcast has Launched! | |
We are so pleased to announce that the CCINDLE Project has launched its podcast, Feminist Futures! In this podcast series, we invite feminist, intersectional and pro-democracy activists, politicians, leading academics, experts, and more, to unpack their work, share experiences, discuss challenges, and ‘what works'.
Listen on our website or on Soundcloud below! |
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Socrates Club Symposium "Feminist Philosophies" | |
On the 20th of March, 2023, our partner Elzbieta Korolczuk participated in the one day Socrates Club Symposium "Feminist Philosophies" organized by Warwick University.
Elzbieta gave a presentation entitled "Right-wing critiques of globalization: the anti-colonial frame in the anti-gender movement." | |
Contributions to new law proposals regarding abortion in Poland | |
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On the 20th of March, 2023, our partner Elzbieta Korolczuk participated in the one day Socrates Club Symposium "Feminist Philosophies" organized by Warwick University.
Elzbieta gave a presentation entitled "Right-wing critiques of globalization: the anti-colonial frame in the anti-gender movement."
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Feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics | |
Our partners Emanuela Lombardo and Paloma Caravantes published an article in Policy & Politics. This article examines the potential of feminist democratic innovations in policy and institutional politics. It examines how feminist democratic innovations can be conceptualised and articulated in local institutions. Combining theories on democratic governance, feminist democracy, social movements, municipalism, decentralisation, gender equality policies and state feminism, it conceptualises feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics as innovations oriented at (a) transforming knowledge, (b) transforming policymaking and public funding, (c) transforming institutions, and (d) transforming actors’ coalitions.
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Feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics | |
Our partners Emanuela Lombardo and Paloma Caravantes published an article in Women's Studies Quarterly. The construction of feminist democratic societal projects relies on the production of feminist knowledge and ideas within social movements, as well as academic, professional, and institutional settings. In the context of a rising opposition against democracy and gender, race, and sexuality equality at a global level, the European Union has launched the call Feminisms for a New Age of Democracy with the purpose of supporting knowledge production about opposition to gender equality in Europe and feminist democratic responses.
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Funded by the European Union under grant No 101061256 UK consortium partners funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding guarantee, grant Nos 10051932 and 10048433. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or UKRI. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. | |
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