When the Covid-19 pandemic unleashed havoc on the global economy in the early 2020s, followed by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there was a sense among some academics and pundits that we were witnessing a paradigm shift, the last nail in the coffin of the so-called “end of history,” and the effects which it wrought. But some years removed from the height of that pandemic we can comfortably say that if any shift has occurred, it has moved us closer to an interregnum than a new frontier, while moving liberal democracies closer to the brink than they have been in years. Facing the hard constraints of inflation, low growth, and war on its doorstep, the contours of European politics in 2024 have seemingly inched back towards the material questions that dominated much of the last century, and away from the post-material concerns that characterized the last thirty-odd years. Nonetheless, post-material concerns continue to play a large role in political and popular discourses, and gender and sexuality issues are one potent manifestation of this staying power.
Join us for a presentation of a new report from the Illiberalism Studies Program focusing on the posture of many of the continent’s reactionary forces and the ways in which they contest issues in this domain. Here, we survey each European country, trace the origins and contours of its legal landscape as it pertains to women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, and chronicle the far-right forces in the country and how they position themselves vis-à-vis these rights. Each brief can be read independently but taken together one sees patterns that extend across borders.
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