{"title":"Bringing the researcher in: methodological, ethical and institutional challenges to studying far-right politics and anti-gender mobilisations","authors":"Ov Cristian Norocel, Iris Beau Segers","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2025d000000125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000125","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"9 2","pages":"324-328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147888861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between nationalism and solidarity: writing on the far right, anti-gender mobilisation and LGBTQ activism in Ukraine’s war context","authors":"Maryna Shevtsova","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2025d000000106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000106","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the ethical and methodological challenges of researching anti-gender actors, particularly far-right nationalist groups, in wartime Ukraine. Rather than focusing on the far right as a political subject, it reflects on the consequences of this focus becoming central to Western and Russian interpretations of Ukrainian politics, especially in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights. The Russian state has long used narratives of ‘Ukrainian Nazism’ to justify its aggression, putting scholars at risk of unintentionally reinforcing disinformation. Meanwhile, the wartime context has produced new alliances between LGBTQ activists and nationalist actors, complicating the analytical and emotional terrain. Exploring this new, complicated political landscape, the article proposes applying critical feminist friendship as a research ethic, allowing for situated critique, emotional accountability and solidarity with vulnerable communities. It argues for the need to critically engage with nationalism and militarisation within queer and feminist spaces, without losing sight of geopolitical asymmetries and local complexities.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"9 2","pages":"401-424"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147908828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking ‘about’ the far right as researchers: between responsibility, safety and neoliberal success","authors":"Katy Brown, Antonia Vaughan","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2025d000000082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000082","url":null,"abstract":"While much work on the far right has understandably focused on explaining its rise, there is growing interest in the implications of how these actors are framed in public, media and academic discourses. Taking the concept of talking ‘about’ the far right to refer to how such groups and ideas are discursively constructed, this article explores the challenges researchers face when communicating their work. Considering the pressures of the neoliberal academic environment alongside our ethical duty and personal safety, we argue that the former can encourage harmful practices. This article maps out such tensions within the UK context, emphasising how neoliberal pressures of competition and impact (exemplified by the Research Excellence Framework) shape engagement with funding, publication and impact. When our framing can legitimise the far right and dissemination activities can cause risk for researchers, minoritised communities are most likely to suffer the negative effects.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"9 2","pages":"352-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147909078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: three arenas for emotional labour","authors":"Ov Cristian Norocel, Iris Beau Segers","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2025d000000078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000078","url":null,"abstract":"This conceptual article examines the relational dynamic between the research field focusing on the far right and those critical scholars that endeavour to undertake these studies. It is theoretically anchored in the field of political science scholarship that recognises the key role played by gender in understanding both the ideological underpinnings and the workings of various far-right entities and by intersectionality in explaining complex systems of power and inequality. Specifically, this article addresses how the complex subjectivity of scholars of the far right shapes the demands for and experiences of emotional labour along three interconnected arenas: the fieldwork, neoliberal academia and their private lives. The conclusion highlights the need for more attention to the ways in which unequal demands for emotional labour in the academic context perpetuate existing inequalities and that institutions should improve support for scholars whose work demands a high degree of emotional labour.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"9 2","pages":"329-351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/downloadpdf/view/journals/ejpg/aop/article-10.1332-25151088Y2025D000000078/article-10.1332-25151088Y2025D000000078.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147887801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting equality from the margins: the Common European Asylum System and the making of trans rights in the European Union","authors":"Amandine Le Bellec","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2023d000000013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2023d000000013","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the role played by the main European cooperation mechanism on asylum, the Common European Asylum System, in the making of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights in the European Union. Based on a one-year qualitative inquiry in Brussels and online, it shows that European Union asylum policies were a key arena for the consolidation, invention and renegotiation of European Union lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights, especially concerning trans recognition. This pioneering role, far from being fortuitous, was part of the conscious strategy of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex movement to use asylum as a ‘side door’ to the creation of a de facto recognition of ‘gender identity’ as a protected characteristic. Characterising this phenomenon as a ‘politics of interstices’ and analysing the importance of ignorance (and not just knowledge) as a tool for policy change, this article makes the case for an analysis of policymaking that acknowledges the importance of non-equality-specific arenas in the making of equality norms.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":" 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138994843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translating difference: whiteness, racialisation and queer migration in Berlin","authors":"Tunay Altay","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2023d000000012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2023d000000012","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the experiences of queer migration shape and inform racialisation, and how racial categories, such as ‘whiteness’ and ‘non-whiteness’, are employed by queer migrants from Turkey in relation to their narratives of belonging and non-belonging in Germany. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Berlin between 2018 and 2022, I aim to show how racism is ambiguously attached to migration and sexual difference, and how ideas of racial difference enable queer migrants to form political collectives and make their experience intelligible to themselves and others. Instead of approaching racialisation as an all-or-nothing finality, the participants often use narratives of non-belonging to distance themselves from the public majority (defined as ‘heterosexual’ and ‘white’) and employ hybrid minoritarian identities, such as ‘queer people of colour’, to translate their difference to other queer migrant and racialised groups in Berlin.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138963584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Translation as a cultural tool for mediating conflict in queer and feminist grassroots democratic coalitions in Denmark, Germany and Sweden","authors":"Nicole Doerr","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2023d000000008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2023d000000008","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I present the findings of a three-year qualitative research project studying feminist and queer activist groups that support refugees in Denmark, Germany and Sweden. My findings show how multilingual activists volunteered as linguistic interpreters to enable inclusive dialogue between refugees and host-country citizens in joint grassroots democratic coalition meetings. Based on interviews with different groups, I show that their linguistic-broker position gave these activists the leverage to challenge and bring to the attention of white-majority citizens the exclusionary dynamics of structural inequality and civic-status hierarchies that create tensions within supposedly open and inclusive joint meetings. By highlighting the critical, counter-hegemonic positionality of activist-translators in coalitions working on gender, the central contribution of my case study is to connect theories of translation and conflict mediation in transnational social movements with research that focuses on the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in intersectional coalitions.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":" 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135340798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women’s issues, critical actors and the media: substantive representation of women and gendered media coverage in South Korea","authors":"Jaemin Shim","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2023d000000007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2023d000000007","url":null,"abstract":"The article investigates whether media coverage varies for male and female legislators with regards to their activities in promoting women’s interests. To test this, 30 key women’s-issue-promoting legislators in South Korea are selected, primarily based on their legislative significance within a women’s-issue bill co-sponsorship network between 2004 and 2016, and their various substantive representation efforts are analysed by examining 45 news outlets. Findings reveal that while receiving less media coverage than their male counterparts overall, female legislators have higher odds of receiving a more focused spotlight concerning women’s-issue-promotion efforts. However, the gendered media coverage was only driven by women’s issues with strong stereotypically feminine policy characteristics, for example, abortion, contraception and sexual harassment, and not by those with both feminine and masculine policy characteristics, such as childcare support and maternity leave. The article demonstrates the importance of media-bias conditionality and thus calls for a more nuanced approach to be taken in future research.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"102 S106","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135818970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How anti-gender and gendered imagery translate the Great Replacement conspiracy theory in online far-right platforms","authors":"Eva Svatoňová, Nicole Doerr","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2023d000000006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2023d000000006","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on a case study of online media practices of the Czech far-right group Angry Mothers, the biggest far-right Facebook group in the Czech political context in 2018. We show how the group used visual storytelling to translate the narratives of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which has become one of the most dominant narratives in European and US far-right discourses over recent years. The conspiracy theory was introduced in the book Le Grande Replacement by Renaud Camus in 2011 and claims that powerful Jewish elites use their financial resources to promote ‘Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual + (LGBTQIA+) and gender ideologies’ and multiculturalism to destroy the white race, which will eventually die out. Based on theories of translation and visual storytelling, we demonstrate how the main tropes of its anti-Semitic narrative were diffused through the use of images stigmatising LGBTQIA+ people and other minorities in online communications of the Czech far-right group Angry Mothers.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"29 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135365449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emphasised, feared, despised and hegemonic: images of femininity in the US far-right digital ecosystem on Telegram channels","authors":"Nicole Doerr, Eva Svatoňová","doi":"10.1332/25151088y2023d000000001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2023d000000001","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we deliver an empirical analysis of far-right visualisations of womanhood on US Telegram channels. Previous studies show that the far right, which increasingly engages in misogynist, anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rhetoric, and opposition to feminism, is marked by the growing involvement of women in the roles of political leaders. Such engagement by women within the far right causes an ‘image problem’, as it makes the traditional gender image of wifely submission less convincing. Our analysis of images of womanhood shared on US far-right Telegram channels shows how far-right images of ‘approved’ performances of womanhood include transgressive gender performances of hegemonic femininity that are in conflict with conservative representations of womanhood in traditional nationalist ideology. Our findings also show how hateful images of liberal, non-binary and minority women serve as a tool for the construction of a variety of ‘approved’ far-right identity images of hegemonic femininity.","PeriodicalId":36315,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Politics and Gender","volume":"6 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135853122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}