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.
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’.
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ENU Attends Health and Care Professions Research Conference
Nov 7, 2023
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Summary
Professor Alison Porter-Armstrong presented “Capacity building in the allied health professions: the outcome of a health intervention research study”.
3 Key Messages
There is value in diffusing training beyond the setup of a healthcare intervention trial.
There is an opportunity for broader workforce development to enhance knowledge and skills:
This capacity and capability building can transform clinical research and practice.
