Backlash

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ID18935262
AuthorsJ J Sosa (0000-0002-2923-1588, Bowdoin College, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume3
Issue2
Pages198-205
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2643-7961 • E-ISSN: 2643-7961
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/fea2.12087
OpenAlexW4280499482
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited21

Feminist anthropology offers conceptual and methodological clarity to the study of backlash, a phenomenon made salient once more by the global conservative turn of the 2010s. As contemporary crises of social reproduction have, once again, focused majoritarian angst and anger on women, queer people, immigrants, and people of color, scholars have returned (again) to discuss backlash. Critically, feminist anthropology can move past media narratives of backlash, which often emphasize the emotional habits of backlash perpetrators, to understand how backlash operates as a specific mode of power through the experiences of its targets. This keyword entry joins recent retheorizations in conceiving backlash not as a reactive event but rather as an elaboration of the ongoing logics of structural oppression. Critically examining media and scholarly analyses of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's election and rise of the extreme right in Brazil as its case study, this entry examines how fieldwork‐based approaches offer expanded theoretical purchase on the backlash concept

Backlash · CLARITY · Epistemology · Narrative · Oppression · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Scapegoating · Sociology · Engineering · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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