Chairs
Helle Krunke helle.krunke@jur.ku.dk
Adrienne Stone a.stone@unimelb.edu.au

“Despite the breadth and depth of inquiries into populism, its relationship with gender issues remains a widely understudied topic.” (Sahar Abi-Hassan, 2017).

Democratic backsliding often goes hand in hand with backlash of womens’ rights and LGBT rights. We witness such backsliding on almost all continents across Europe, the United States, Latin America, Af rica, and Asia. For instance, the right to abortion has been restricted in many states in the US. Turkey has withdrawn from the Istanbul Convention on violence against women and domestic violence in 2021, and Russia abstained from signing it in 2011. In Poland LGBT free zones were introduced. The purpose of this workshop is to develop more research within the field. Experiences from different countries and regions, as well as conceptual and theoretical approaches are welcomed. We welcome papers which identify and analyze challenges as well as papers which offer solutions. We invite papers in Law, Political Science, and other relevant fields. We aim at publishing contributions from the workshop.