Call for Con­tri­bu­ti­ons

Panel on anti­de­mo­cra­tic and anti­mo­dern social move­ments at the Dis­cour­seNet Con­gress 2027 “Dis­cur­sive Ima­gi­na­ries of Change: Het­e­ro­to­pias, Power­Know­ledge, and the ‘Great Trans­for­ma­tion’« that will take place from 19–21 July 2027 at the Phil­ipps-Uni­ver­sity Mar­burg, Ger­many.

Socie­tal trans­for­ma­tion and change can­not solely be unders­tood in terms of pro­gress- and future-ori­en­ted or as pro-demo­cra­tic pro­ces­ses. Pro­gres­sive social move­ments call coun­ter-move­ments and their neo-tra­di­tio­nal future ima­gi­na­ries to the stage
of mobi­li­sa­tion.

We wel­come con­tri­bu­ti­ons that can but not have to address the fol­lo­wing topics:
● Nor­ma­liza­tion of far-right dis­cur­sive posi­ti­ons; demo­cra­tic backsli­ding and (nar­ra­ti­ves
of) poli­ti­cal pola­riza­tion; the dis­course on a “Kul­tur­kampf”;
● powerful nar­ra­ti­ves of the back­lash, and the resur­gence of anti­fe­mi­nist dis­cour­ses
and images;
● rela­ti­onship of anti­se­mi­tism and anti-Israe­lism; con­spi­racy myths and cur­rent forms of anti­se­mi­tism; aca­de­mic acti­vism and their rela­ti­onship to Israel and “Zio­nism”;
● aut­ho­ri­ta­rian ten­den­cies in the fight against anti­de­mo­cra­tic deve­lo­p­ments;

Please send your abs­tracts to DNC-​antidemocratic@​uni-​marburg.​de

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