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{"title":"Celebrating feminist responses to populist politics","authors":"Greta Olson","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1953065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1953065","url":null,"abstract":"When I began teaching feminist and sexuality studies in Germany many years ago, I needed to learn about the variety of feminist movements that in no way resembled the second-wave in US America, in which I had been acculturated. Part of this learning consisted in recognising that the wave metaphor, used so typically to characterise the history of feminist movements in the UK and the US, fits the history of other feminist movements only poorly. This is true for Germany, before and after reunification in 1989, for the Northern European countries, and for those geopolitical contexts about whose feminisms I knew far less. This includes South European and post-Yugoslavian articulations of feminisms, such as those in Croatia and elsewhere. My personal education of engaging with feminisms different from ones in my country of origin may mirror the reader’s experience of this issue. The voices assembled in this issue speak primarily from the perspective of South Europe. These voices articulate themselves at a particular moment of time – when minoritized communities are feeling the conjoined forces of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a surge of anti-feminist and anti-queer and anti-trans initiatives within Europe and beyond, and while the Mediterranean remains a grave for migrant persons. “Feminist responses to populist politics” invites Anglophone readers to enter into forms of feminist resistance taking place in Mediterranean countries, as activists react to the pandemic and a variety of nationalist and ethno-nationalist initiatives that have chosen feminists and queer and trans persons as their preferred enemies. The essays gathered here reflect on feminist-activist work in Catalunya, in Spain, in Italy, and in Croatia, and the dissemination of feminist topoi beyond these geopolitical areas. The authors are activists, and the guest editors and the contributors dispel with some common misrepresentations of feminists today. One concerns feminism’s supposed exclusions of intersectional and anti-racist viewpoints, and of trans women and non-binary persons. Each of the essays that appears in this issue speaks for inclusive intersectional feminisms. One champions a form of “resilient feminism”, meant here not in the sense of a neo-liberal Lean-In brand of feminism that insists that individual women just need to try harder. Rather, resilient feminism is understood as an adaptive response to new iterations of neo-liberal power in disruption. In their composition, with one more mature and two younger feminist scholars, the guest editors unite in countering a second negative narrative that feminists are divided generationally. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES 2021, VOL. 25, NO. 2, 111–112 https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1953065","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"111 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1953065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47947937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strange tropes of salvation: populist rhetoric and violence against women in Croatia","authors":"Brigita Miloš","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1946277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1946277","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article revolves around notions of feminism and populism in the contemporary Croatian context. It analyses the domestic celebrity feminism initiative and the populist discourse some Croatian political figures employ. The structural similarity of the two public examples of rhetoric mentioned is correlated with the testimonial discourse of gender violence survivors. The comparative interpretation results in critical notions regarding the dubious collaboration between the populist feminist initiative and the political establishment, with emphases on domestic populist political actors.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"207 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1946277","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47671181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feminist responses to populist politics","authors":"S. Bojanic, M. C. Abadía, V. Moro","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1946741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1946741","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Given our situatedness as political subjects of knowledge — as activists and scholars from Southern Europe — we have mapped out in this issue some feminist responses to populism. This issue discusses diverse transfeminist and feminist political groups and ideas, and talks about feminisms as a constellation of accounts of politics, practices, knowledges, and experiences. Although it is beyond the scope of this issue to discuss the idea of populism, the plurality of definitions and their political implications, this collection of essays reflects our need to analyse modes of self-determination that, within feminism, are taking place in the name of the people and for the people. This Introduction sketches the situatedness of the essays in Southern Europe, the antifeminist backlash and the feminist responses that we have been witnessing in the past few years, and the appropriation of feminism by certain conservative groups.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"113 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1946741","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49565545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brexit and academia: a satyr play where exit prevails voice","authors":"S. Baumbach, Andreas Maurer","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1918862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918862","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This introduction to the special issue Brexit and Academia sketches some of the key challenges for academia that emerged from Brexit. Based on a brief overview of the current state of the withdrawal and the trade agreements, we reflect upon the consequences of Brexit on transnational research, academic mobility, and research funding. We discuss the role and function of Euroscepticism for understanding the United Kingdom’s slow but constant move towards exiting the Union. We further outline the key function of Euroscepticism for explaining the formation of an imagined community of ‘Brexiteers’ in fostering the rise of an ‘island mentality.’ The introduction closes by considering potentially productive effects of a crisis such as Brexit, which has opened up new areas for research across various disciplines.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918862","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44013688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catherine Belsey","authors":"Greta Olson","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1926661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1926661","url":null,"abstract":"It is with great sorrow that the general editors note the recent death of Catherine Belsey on 14 February 2021. Kate Belsey, as she was called, was one of the founding editors of the European Journal of English Studies. As she wrote in the inaugural issue, with her co-editors Herbert Grabes and Jean-Jacques Lecercle, “The cause is Europe. . . . The cause is also English Studies in the broadest sense of the term. . . . Moreover, the cause is debate” (EJES 1, no. 1, 1997). The cause was and remains, Europe. For this once young scholar, Catherine Belsey was a giant in the field, displaying a quiet feminist grace, wit, and fortitude, when given pushback, while holding a plenary at the large ESSE gathering in Turin in 2010, where she spoke about “Gendered Revenants.” Rather less from afar, I had the opportunity to admire her several times in smaller academic contexts in Germany. At one instance, I remember her thoughtfully playing with Shakespeare’s “time out of joint” to consider its spatial, embodied and temporal elements. As I was finding my own way in literary studies, having moved in sideways from philosophy, I looked to her “Towards cultural history – In theory and practice” (1989) for guidance. Her notes about the previous exclusions of English Departments, most particularly gender-related ones, laid one of the foundations for the cultural-political analysis I pass on to students today. She describes the task of cultural history to “lay bare the contradictions and conflicts, the instabilities and indeterminacies, which inevitably reside in any bid for truth. . . . I’m not sure how easy it is. But if we can interpret Shakespeare, we can surely learn to interpret fashion, and music – and privies.” This inspired me and still does, as Kate’s life continues to inspire this journal.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"iii - iii"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1926661","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47293149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Academic mobility after Brexit: Erasmus and the UK post-2020","authors":"S. Zotti","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1918834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918834","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Universities in the UK share the long common history of cooperation and mobility with the other European universities and are indispensable contributors to the European history of ideas. However, the Brexit substantially changes the established ways of cooperation in the framework of the EU’s main education programme Erasmus+. How will academic mobility and cooperation develop under the new circumstances, what are the options for both sides to continue the close cooperation, so far embedded in the framework of the European Higher Education Area? And what are the UK’s possibilities in terms of further participating in the Erasmus+ programme versus establishing a national support scheme for British and (foreign?) students to further promote the exchange of students? The article aims at analysing the political positions in the UK and to sketch out the different options for the UK and the EU (member states) to continue the existing cooperation after the Brexit allowing for the mobility of students, teachers and researchers also in the future. This article reflects the private opinion of the author and is not to be understood as the official position of the European Commission.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"19 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918834","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45949495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brexit and scientific research?","authors":"B. Foster","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1918831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918831","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper looks into the likely effects of Brexit on scientific research in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. Although mention is made of the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, these will only become clear with time. After a reminder about what science actually is, I describe a framework for the debate on Brexit and research. I sketch an outline of the best possible outcome of this process and comment on the situation as it appeared in 2020, in the midst of the Transition Period and while intensive negotiations on the future relationship between the UK and the EU continued.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"11 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45274303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Internationalisation, Brexit, and the EU academic system: a case study in Austria","authors":"V. Riedl, H. Staubmann","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1918860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The withdrawal negotiations after the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU) have fuelled discussions concerning the expected repercussions on higher education and research in Europe and call for discussing Brexit against the backdrop of internationalisation and the role of the UK in the European higher education and research landscape. When analysing Brexit as a counter development to internationalisation efforts, the question arises as to how institutions in different EU countries deal with and adapt to the new situation that is susceptible to substantially changing the European higher education landscape. By taking Austria as an example and by comparing our findings with other European countries, we study the responses of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. To understand if and how Austrian HEIs prepared for Brexit, we conducted semi-structured expert interviews with representatives of International Relation Offices. Despite the awareness that Brexit might have negative consequences, the institutions mainly adopted a ‘wait-and-see’ attitude. The institutions justified this rather passive response by highlighting the uncertain outcome of the Brexit negotiations. However, they also showed a commitment to finding solutions and new strategies once the terms of the UK leave are set.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"65 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47027396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lost in the noise? Narrative (re)presentation of higher education and research during the Brexit process in the UK","authors":"Monika Brusenbauch Meislová","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1918835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918835","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article investigates how the considerations on higher education and research have been narratively represented in a public domain in the process of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. Having adopted the general orientation of the discourse-historical approach to discourse analysis, the study surveys the narrative (re)presentation of research and higher education issues during three key phases of the Brexit process: 1) the pre-negotiation period; 2) the stage of Article 50 negotiation, and 3) the transition period. With the public domain restricted to higher education institutions (especially British universities) on the one hand, and the UK Government on the other, this inquiry helps us understand how the actors have employed specific narratives in order to create meaning and influence (and potentially change) the impact of Brexit on academia.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"34 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48927131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What’s the problem with Brexit? Notes from the middle of Britain’s crisis","authors":"G. Popham","doi":"10.1080/13825577.2021.1918845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918845","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Brexit referendum was experienced as a dramatic moment of rupture by millions of people who voted to remain in the European Union. This article argues that the period of uncertainty that came after the referendum was also a highly generative period for new political projects. By following the fluid, dynamic and multi-faceted articulation of Brexit as an issue of public concern – that is, as an issue that represents many distinct problems for different groups of people – this article traces the difficulties faced by these groups, as they attempt to enact public interventions, and consequently to emerge as properly-speaking democratic publics. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, this article makes the case for an embedded mode of social research that is attentive to the emergence, growth, and evolution of social and political movements, and that is, moreover, able to trace these dynamics over long periods of time.","PeriodicalId":43819,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of English Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"96 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/13825577.2021.1918845","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47614100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}