İrem Tuncer-Ebetürk and Jelena Cupać will hold guest lecture about antifeminist mobilization in the UN: „Demystification of global civil society and the illiberal backlash“

 Jelena Cupać, Ph.D. and İrem Tuncer-Ebetürk, Ph.D., research fellows at the Berlin Social Science Center, will hold a guest lecture about antifeminist politics inside the United Nations via zoom on 25 January from 1pm to 2:30pm. The guest lecture bears the title "Demystification of global civil society and the illiberal backlash" and bases on the current research by Cupać and Tuncer-Ebetürk.

The lecture takes place within the Seminar „Power to the People? Nichtstaatliche Akteure, internationale Politik und Global Governance" by Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter, who holds the Chair of Political Science with a focus on International Politics at TU Dresden and is member of the Academic Council at the Center for International Studies (ZIS).

Abstract

Antifeminist mobilization in the United Nations: Between socialization and polarization

Conservative NGOs contesting women’s rights in the United Nations are on the rise. This mobilization influenced the way gender politics is done in the UN. In our research, we study the characteristics of antifeminist politics, how and why these actors mobilize in the UN, and what are outcomes of this mobilization. We argue that antifeminist actors’ politics can be characterized as backlash politics. Conservative NGOs’ socialization into transnational practices and the United Nations has played a significant part in facilitating the antifeminist backlash. The chief effect of this kind of socialization is polarization which results from feminist NGOs’ defensively reciprocating the attack from the antifeminist actors.

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Link for the zoom-meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88030280424?pwd=VDFVN3VPUnRqczl5UGpRUW5nTjRnUT09

We are looking forward to your participation!