Not in the mood for gender and feminism. Exploring affect and expertise through Spanish anti-gender movements

OBST, Marcel (2024). Not in the mood for gender and feminism. Exploring affect and expertise through Spanish anti-gender movements. Women's Studies International Forum, 104: 102892.

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Abstract

This article explores the use of affect in the study of anti-gender movements – a loosely connected network of actors that seeks political goals through their opposition to women's and LGBTQ+ rights and lives. Drawing on ethnographic data from Spain, it examines ‘anti-gender’ moods and the collective attunements that underpin these movements. Through this affective turn, it suggests that these moods can have profound binding and mobilising effects, capable of cultivating dynamics of hateful love; this is, anti-gender movements create spaces that nurture love for the perceived ingroup and simultaneously stoke hate towards the Other. The article suggests that how things are communicated is entangled with what is communicated, stressing the importance of the expert as a figure that contributes an authorising dimension to this mood of hateful love.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1699 Other Studies in Human Society; 1801 Law; 2002 Cultural Studies; Gender Studies; 4404 Development studies; 4405 Gender studies; 4804 Law in context
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102892
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	09 Apr 2024 08:55
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 09:00
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33547

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