Sociology Seminar 
Time: 14:00 pm – 15:30 pm
Date: 17th of April
Room : 3049

Elena Pavan (University of Trento) – “An indestructible coalition? Spanning boundaries and sidelining differences in the Italian anti-gender galaxy”

Research team : Elena Pavan, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Aurora Perego, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento, Matteo Scianna, Department of Mathematics, University of Trento

Abstract :  “Recent studies that look at anti-gender politics point out that anti-gender actors are increasingly concerned with limiting the rights of trans* individuals and suggest the emergence of an ‘anti-trans coalition’ between anti-gender organizations, right-wing populist parties, and anti-trans organizations.This paper targets precisely such an emergent coalitional endeavour and addresses it through a transfeminist computational social science approach, for which large scale computational analysis of digital data is coupled with in-depth qualitative analysis to simultaneously detect regularities while respecting and leveraging on the inherent diversity of data. Building on social movement theories on boundary-spanning, we examine the internal reorganization of the Italian anti-gender galaxy starting from the “everyday digital labour” that these actors perform on Facebook and Instagram. We pay specific attention to the discursive similarities that speak to a process of convergence between the four sectors but also to the differences that signal the existences of potential rifts within this emergent coalition.”

Organizers:
Paola TUBARO (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Sofian EL ATIFI (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Patrick PRÄG (Pôle sociologie CREST)

Sponsors:
CREST