http://hdl.handle.net/10174/991 Fri, 29 May 2026 20:21:25 GMT 2026-05-29T20:21:25Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42062 Title: Women’s mobilization and antifeminist discursive framings in Portugal’s far right Authors: Roque, Sílvia; Santos, Rita; Garraio, Júlia Abstract: Antifeminist and antigender rhetoric and campaigns have grown over the last decade, especially, but not exclusively, voiced by ultraconservative and far-right parties, movements and actors, and have prompted political and societal repercussions, with an increasingly visible participation of women in these attacks on feminism. These mobilizations are frequently articulated also through racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and transphobic discourses, in which feminism and gender equality are framed as external threats to the nation, the family, or “Western values.” From an intersectional perspective, such narratives reinforce and reproduce multiple overlapping systems of domination, simultaneously targeting gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and nationality, while legitimizing exclusionary and hierarchical social orders. These features are globally shared and have proliferated across a wide range of contexts with some degree of similarities and coordination; however, conceptualizing them only as a singular transnational movement is unwarranted. Understanding how these campaigns are articulated differently in specific contexts and mobilized toward a range of goals is key to grasp both the similarities and the uniqueness of these narratives, agendas and campaigns in specific contexts. Portugal remains an under-researched case study primarily due to the slightly later emergence of far-right movements and parties with political significance. Based on the analysis of published materials and online content produced by the far-right party CHEGA (CH) from 2022 to the 2024 national legislative election, namely news, op-eds and interviews with women from CH, and their social networks content, this article reflects on how the success of CH in mobilizing women to antifeminist agendas has been key to normalizing undemocratic antifeminist, antigender agendas in the public sphere. Through the critical analysis of CH’s discursive positions on feminism and gender, it will also examine the instrumentalization of “women’s rights” in order to put forward homophobic, transphobic, anti-immigration, racist and xenophobic agendas, namely through the participation of women in leading roles in the antifeminist campaigns. Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42062 2026-04-23T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42061 Title: Editorial: Facing contemporary antifeminism: a call for intersectionality Authors: Roque, Sílvia; Santos, Rita; Garraio, Júlia Abstract: We live in a paradoxical political moment: feminist movements across the globe have achieved landmark legal and institutional advances over the past several decades, yet mobilizations against feminism and gender equality and justice are simultaneously intensifying, diversifying, and going transnational. Anti-gender campaigns led mostly but not exclusively by far-right populist parties, reactionary religious movements and online misogyny networks no longer operate at the political margins. They have entered parliaments and governments, shaped laws, and influenced public policy all over the world. The question confronting those interested in gender, social movements and political science is no longer whether antifeminism is a serious political force but how to analyse it with adequate complexity, and how feminist theory and practice should respond to it. This Research Topic was conceived precisely out of that urgency. Its animating conviction is straightforward: antifeminism cannot be understood in single-axis terms. It is not merely a backlash against women's rights, nor simply a product of far-right extremism, nor reducible to toxic masculinity, though it implicates all three. Contemporary antifeminism is an ideologically intersectional phenomenon entangled with racism, nationalism, neocapitalism, religious orthodoxy, classism, ableism, and cis-heteronormativity in ways that both amplify its reach and obscure its workings. Meeting it requires analytical tools of comparable complexity. The seven articles gathered in this Research Topic make precisely that case, from multiple disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts. Wed, 27 May 2026 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42061 2026-05-27T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/39844 Title: Estratégia Europeia em Busca de uma “Consciência Planetária”: Uma Cidadania Ecológica para além da Aritmética Verde? Authors: Balla, Evanthia Abstract: This article examines the European environmental strategy and, in particular, the nature of a European ecological citizenship. It argues that the European environmental strategy, despite its importance, is mainly based on a model of nature management, giving citizens a central role in this management. The current legal-political framework does not demonstrate a new paradigm of ‘planetary consciousness’ capable of guaranteeing real change. The argument is structured in four parts: firstly, the concepts of the Anthropocene, Capitalocene and the Green Arithmetic paradigm are examined, emphasising the framework of the European environmental strategy and the role of the European citizen in it. It then looks at the efforts, and underlying assumptions, to ‘save the planet’ at international and European level in search of evidence of a ‘planetary consciousness’. The third part uses a particular reading of the European legal-political framework, especially the European Green Deal, to critically analyse the role of the citizen as the driving force behind this change. Finally, we summarise the main conclusions and reflect on the EU’s response to the climate challenge, in the light of the trends identified and the urgency of finding a new paradigm suitable for a real change in thinking. This article makes a theoretical contribution by interpreting the European strategy, and in particular European ecological citizenship through the Green Arithmetic model, and neoliberal management. It also makes an empirical contribution by highlighting how European citizenship is understood under the terms of the European Green Deal. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/39844 2024-11-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/39757 Title: European citizenship in quest of a political culture: supranational by law or transnational by politics? Authors: Balla, Evanthia Abstract: The present article raises crucial questions regarding European citizenship. How has European citizenship been constructed and manifested within the legal and political domains of the European integration project, and how European citizens perceive their rights and duties across supranational and transnational manifestations of European citizenship? The main argument of this article is that European citizenship is constructed by European law in an ambiguous way, allowing for both supranational and transnational interpretations. Similarly, an individualistic conception of citizenship, as an earned status, rather than a vehicle for creating political culture of solidarity, justice, and inclusion, has been limiting the potential of the endeavour itself. The current work builds upon the foundations of political theory and employs a legal and political interpretive methodology. Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/39757 2024-12-31T00:00:00Z