New media, nationhood and the anti-gender kaleidoscope
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.25636Keywords:
anti-genderism, culture wars, nationhood, new media, the otherAbstract
This discussion article highlights how the contributions to the special issue shed different light on one of the most striking features of anti-genderism: its capacity to cut across particularities within and between countries, articulating disperse grievances and demands around a shared field of resonances, which is at once transnational and local. Two interrelated axes exist: the pivotal scaling function that the empty signifier of ‘the nation’ plays in the anti-genderism register in Poland, Brazil and the United States and the way new media have afforded, in different ways, the construction of this image of the enemy other as a palpable, enduring threat.
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