The Neverending 90s in Serbia
Right-wing actors—conservative politicians, public intellectuals, and the Serbian Orthodox Church—have been influential in contemporary Serbia since the early 1990s, playing a formative role in its anti-gender movement. This study advances our understanding of how anti-gender mobilization draws fro...
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Right-wing actors—conservative politicians, public intellectuals, and the Serbian Orthodox Church—have been influential in contemporary Serbia since the early 1990s, playing a formative role in its anti-gender movement. This study advances our understanding of how anti-gender mobilization draws from its local context. Drawing on Judith Butler’s concept of gender phantasm and Andrea Pető’s concept of gender as symbolic glue, this analysis examines two documents: the 1992 “Warning” resolution and Patriarch Pavle’s 1995 Christmas message. These texts enable mapping of actors and succinctly encapsulate the ideological imaginaries of the conservative elite who remain active. The ideological imaginary uniquely draws from rhetoric used to justify regional wars, serving as the phantasmic foundation of contemporary anti-gender mobilizations. Since right-wing actors operated within a contested space, the study acknowledges the unwavering feminist and pacifist left-wing opposition.
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| spelling | doaj-art-148f30e5edb748c4ae4ee7142c92e7132025-01-29T15:41:07ZengInternational Association for Political Science Students (IAPSS)Politikon2414-66332025-01-0159110.22151/politikon.12025.6The Neverending 90s in SerbiaNađa Bobičić0Vanja Petrović1University of BelgradeUniversity of Belgrade Right-wing actors—conservative politicians, public intellectuals, and the Serbian Orthodox Church—have been influential in contemporary Serbia since the early 1990s, playing a formative role in its anti-gender movement. This study advances our understanding of how anti-gender mobilization draws from its local context. Drawing on Judith Butler’s concept of gender phantasm and Andrea Pető’s concept of gender as symbolic glue, this analysis examines two documents: the 1992 “Warning” resolution and Patriarch Pavle’s 1995 Christmas message. These texts enable mapping of actors and succinctly encapsulate the ideological imaginaries of the conservative elite who remain active. The ideological imaginary uniquely draws from rhetoric used to justify regional wars, serving as the phantasmic foundation of contemporary anti-gender mobilizations. Since right-wing actors operated within a contested space, the study acknowledges the unwavering feminist and pacifist left-wing opposition. https://politikon.iapss.org/index.php/politikon/article/view/464Anti-gender MobilizationsAbortion“White Plague”Phantasm of GenderSticky PhantasmSerbia |
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| topic | Anti-gender Mobilizations Abortion “White Plague” Phantasm of Gender Sticky Phantasm Serbia |
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