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Published in: Rethinking PopulismAbout Rethinking Populism
Bringing together diverse voices to develop effective, progressive political strategies.
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Published in: 50.50The war on Europe’s women and LGBTIQ people has only just begun
The far right did not conquer the European Parliament – but this doesn’t mean the threats to our rights have...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in Germany
What kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Matteo Salvini, renaturalizing the racial and sexual boundaries of democracy
In Italy, Salvini has set out to expand the independentist and regionalist dimension that formerly characterized his...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 1: women and the far right
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...
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Published in: 50.50Why we’re Right: young women on the UK’s growing right-wing scene in their own words
Rejecting feminism and the political left that has apparently neglected them for too long, four young women explain...
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Published in: 50.50Why are women joining far-right movements, and why are we so surprised?
Women’s ‘shocking’ participation in far-right politics has received much media attention. But is this a new trend,...
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Published in: 50.50What’s attracting women to Myanmar’s Buddhist nationalist movement?
Amid Myanmar’s transition towards democracy, a dangerous Buddhist nationalist movement is on the rise, and women are...
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Published in: 50.50What is ‘femonationalism’?
Academic Sara Farris talks about the 'instrumentalisation' of migrant women in Europe by right-wing nationalists –...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Getting to know you: mapping the anti-feminist face of right-wing populism in Europe
These three parties are only a part of the right-wing populist anti-feminism that is spreading across Europe. The...
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Published in: 50.50Under Trump, we are all women
The same strategies used against women for decades by the Christian right and the anti-abortion movement are now,...
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Published in: HomePopulism, the era of Trump and the rise of the far right
Several reasons for opening our eyes to the new/old politics of identity.
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Published in: HomeTrump’s macho populism
Donald Trump's treatment of women is a matter of politics, not just style: rooted in populist and fascist ideas that...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“We have created a monster”
On the recent electoral successes of Germany's extreme right and its ideological background.
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Published in: 50.50Race, caste and gender in France
Criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism is fundamentally paradoxical: Anti-racism and anti-sexism must work together.
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Published in: 50.50The gender wars in Turkey: a litmus test of democracy?
The pent up fury and grief released by Özgecan Aslan’s attempted rape and gruesome murder reveal deep fault lines...
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Published in: 50.50No laughing matter: Women and the new populism in Turkey
Stirring up moral anxieties over women's conduct and propriety is key to a populist discourse that pits a virtuous...
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Published in: 50.50Gender violence, Narendra Modi and the Indian elections
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has a good chance of winning the forthcoming general election in India. Amrit...
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Published in: 50.50Anti-immigrant sentiment: time to talk about gender?
The way in which gender figures in the picture of anti-immigrant sentiment is rarely discussed, yet anti-immigrant...
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Published in: 50.50Vaginal obsessions in Turkey: an Islamic perspective
Recent controversies over women's sexuality, abortion and reproductive rights in Turkey reveal unacceptable...