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Gender Politics of "Illiberal Pragmatics" in the Polish Defense Sector
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Abstract Since 2015, the illiberal Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość [PiS]) government in Poland has engaged in campaigns against "gender ideology," rolling back several equality mechanisms and provisions, and mainstreaming traditionalist values into state policy. Following from this, scholarship has p... mehr
Since 2015, the illiberal Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość [PiS]) government in Poland has engaged in campaigns against "gender ideology," rolling back several equality mechanisms and provisions, and mainstreaming traditionalist values into state policy. Following from this, scholarship has predominantly addressed PiS gender politics through the concepts of anti-gender backlash and gender backsliding. Against this background, Polish defense policy constitutes a puzzling realm that significantly escapes these frameworks, revealing instead a mix of backsliding, institutional and discursive continuity, and positive gender change. While the displacement of the Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment office has erased similar bodies in the defense sector, the government has swiftly created a National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, strengthened the Armed Forces Women's Council, and continued prior policy and discourse on women's service. Meanwhile, the increased defense preparations following the war in eastern Ukraine have doubled women's percentage in the armed forces, partially regendering the very idea and practice of defense. To explore this ambiguity, the article draws from feminist institutionalism and multi-sited sociological methods. It proposes to move beyond backlash towards the analytical concept of illiberal pragmatics - a complex, gendered logic of governance which seeks to balance illiberals' dedication to national sovereignty with pragmatic political, security, demographic, and economic considerations. Under illiberal pragmatics, women's interests are pursued within a more conservative framework, with gender norms simultaneously upheld and destabilized across different realms. Nevertheless, the key feature of illiberal gender politics lies not in backsliding, but in a pragmatic balancing act between national integrity and structural pressures for change.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Polen; Gender; Verteidigung; Sicherheit; Militär; Geschlechterpolitik; Verteidigungspolitik; Frauenpolitik; politische Entwicklung
Klassifikation
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Sonstiges zur Sozialpolitik
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
anti-gender; illiberalism
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 61-71
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 10 (2022) 4
Heftthema
Gender and Illiberalism in Post-Communist Europe
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)