The RESIST Project: Press Release. FINDINGS FROM THE 2nd STAGE OF THE PROJECT RELEASED
Headline: RESIST reveals the ‘heartbreaking’ impact of so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe
Lead: The RESIST project, which is investigating so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe, has discovered several negative consequences, including ‘systemic, institutional discrimination’.
Linked Funders
EC European Commission
UKRI UK Research and Innovation
Dr Kulpa presents findings from the EU-funded RESIST project at a international European Geographies of Sexualities Conference
Sep 2, 2024
Summary
Roberto Kulpa talked about: Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’ at the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, held at University of Brighton, Sept 2024. https://2024.egsconference.com
Dr Kulpa's talk addressed findings from the RESIST project:
theresistproject.eu/
Abstract:
Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas. In the ongoing battle against them, national and international queer-feminist insurgencies have been developing spaces of resistances and fightback. ‘Identity politics’, one way or another, is thus a space of tensions and dis-comforts of politics, where actors, issues, and strategies constantly manoeuvre and reposition themselves to aggregate or ease the arising frictions. Symbolic and real geo-temporalities of political loci have been a significant contributing factor in these processes.
This presentation will empirically draw on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, and the European Parliament to engage with the following issues:
•how ‘dis-comfort’ features as an element of the ‘anti-gender’ politics in Polish and transnational contexts;
•porous and un-comfortable thresholds across media and parliaments as places of (trans)national politics;
•syncretic benefits and obstacles emerging from those ‘threshold of dis-comforts’ that re-create imaginary geopolitics of ‘the ‘east’ and ‘west’ in the ‘anti-gender’ (scholarly, political, activist) debates;
•thinking forward about recommendations and next steps needed in our fight against inequalities and for the better, queer-feminist futures.
Keywords:
‘anti-gender’, LGBTIQ+ equalities, parliamentary and media discourses, queer-feminist resistances, threshold politics.
In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone contexts.
Commentary title: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland"
The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released
Apr 10, 2024
Source
The RESIST Project Press Release
Summary
Headline: Europe-wide research reveals how transgender rights, feminism, and LGBTIQ+ advocacy are systematically attacked in politics and media.
Lead: A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe has shown how undermining our understanding of gender as socially constructed norms has taken root internationally.
Linked Funders
EC European Commission
UKRI UK Research and Innovation
The talk reflected on the epistemic b/orders in collaborative knowledge creation in queer studies, as critical discipline pursued within the neoliberal higher education system.
Dr Kulpa selected for the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Development Network
Feb 6, 2023
Summary
Dr Kulpa has been selected for the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Development Network. The success follows last year's successful grant bid in the EU Horizon Europe programme.
Dr Kulpa's "Collaborating Across: Developing Transnational Synergies to Strengthen Research Cultures" project wins funding
Feb 1, 2023
Summary
Until the end of 2023 Dr Kulpa pursues project "Collaborating Across: Developing Transnational Synergies to Strengthen Research Cultures" (Strategic Research & Knowledge Exchange Grant).
Dr Kulpa spoke about "Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?" as part of the "Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education", University of Münster, Germany
Dr Roberto Kulpa with colleagues form 9 European organisations launches “Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)” research consortium aiming to investigate queer-feminist responses to so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe
Dr Kulpa spoke about "Thinking About the Geo-politics of Knowledge Production: Non-anglophone Epistemologies in/of Queer Studies" at Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), in Leipzig, Germany.
Dr Kulpa invited to speak on "Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment" at Lund University
Dec 1, 2021
Summary
The talk reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary.
Dr Kulpa explains the meanders of the British culture & politics to the Polish readers on the example of 'The Crown' series and public debate about Princess Diana. Interview published in a popular monthly magazine 'Zwierciadło'.
