{"id":1665,"date":"2024-12-11T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2024-12-11T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T11:31:28","slug":"crcc-to-host-the-symposium-reactionary-politics-women-and-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/crcc\/events\/crcc-to-host-the-symposium-reactionary-politics-women-and-popular-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"CRCC to host the symposium \u2018Reactionary politics,\u00a0women, and popular culture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Centre for Research in Culture and Communication at Loughborough University will host the symposium \u2018Reactionary politics,&nbsp;women, and popular culture\u2019 on 21st May, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will feature a keynote by Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths), the pre-eminent scholar of gender, feminism and popular culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the one-day symposium, held at the East Midlands campus with some provision for online presentations, papers will focus on feminised popular culture in the context of resurgent reactionary politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feminist media and cultural studies scholarship has long wrestled with the complex and historically shifting relationships between feminism, gender politics, and popular culture.\u00a0While there is increasing recognition of the role that women are playing in the rise of the organised far right &#8211; a phenomenon emblematised by Marine Le Pen &#8211; what remains under-researched and under-theorised is how female-centric<em>\u00a0popular culture<\/em>\u00a0is responding to, shaped by, or entangled with these reactionary forces.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are living in a time of rising right-wing authoritarianism, racism, anti-migrant hatred, and the insurgent \u201canti-gender\u201d movement &#8211; including attacks on gender studies. Scholarly attention has increasingly trained on the role that <em>masculinist<\/em> digital culture plays in these phenomena, including the rise of the manosphere and the alt-right, reactionary &#8220;wellness&#8221; influencers, anti-feminist \u201cmanfluencers\u201d such as Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson, and the growing power of the anti-feminist \u201cred pill\u201d philosophy. These have all been subjected to critical scrutiny because of their constitutive role in the spreading moods of nihilism, resentment and hate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what should we make of&nbsp;popular culture and digital media forms that are addressed to <em>women<\/em> &#8211; what role do tradwives, \u201cdark feminine\u201d influencers, the &#8220;4B&#8221; movement, and so-called \u201creactionary feminists\u201d play in this conjuncture? To what extent are social media genres of feminine fitness content, women\u2019s wellness influencers, and female dating influencers entangled with reactionary forces? &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This symposium invites papers that analyse this \u201creactionary turn\u201d in feminised popular culture and digital media.&nbsp;We particularly encourage submissions from postgraduate students and early career scholars. In addition, we welcome submissions from those whose work focuses on non-anglophone, non-western contexts. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Questions that papers may consider are:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does reactionary politics interpellate women through popular culture and digital media forms?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How should we understand the shifting role of popular feminism in this reactionary conjuncture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What new theoretical frames do we need to understand the perplexing new entanglements of feminised cultural forms with reactionary politics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To what extent do these emergent forms of reactionary, female-centric popular culture represent a break with post-feminism, and to what extent may they be continuous?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How might we theorise these phenomena which take shape in culture and media? 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