Description du projet
Zoom sur la rhétorique de genre et le populisme
Hommes et femmes ont des besoins, des exigences et des craintes qui diffèrent en fonction de leur sexe, de leur classe sociale, de leur appartenance ethnique et de leur âge. Toutes ces attentes, demandes et inquiétudes méritent d’être prises en compte de manière adéquate par les représentants politiques de nos démocraties européennes. Malheureusement, elles sont généralement ignorées par les partis traditionnels et reprises par des acteurs politiques radicaux et/ou populistes dont les valeurs vont à l’encontre des principes fondamentaux de l’Europe. Le projet UNTWIST, financé par l’UE, entend identifier des réponses aux attentes, aux demandes et aux inquiétudes liées au genre dans le respect des valeurs de base de l’UE. Sa principale stratégie de travail consistera à donner aux partis (non radicaux/populistes) les moyens d’améliorer leur représentation des intérêts sexospécifiques des citoyens grâce à l’élaboration, l’amélioration et la diffusion d’un manuel de recommandations politiques fondées sur des données probantes.
Objectif
UNTWIST aims to promote gender equality as a core value of the EU, defending it from the emerging threat that the oppositional gender rhetoric from extreme populist parties represents. By developing policy recommendations that uphold gender equality as both a value and a way of life, our project will contribute to shaping the global future, thus fulfilling relevant objectives in the EU’s political agenda for the period 2019–2024. By understanding if extreme populist parties are acting as niche parties, substantively representing (but also twisting) the needs and demands of citizens “at the margins”, who feel abandoned or disempowered by current mainstream feminist discourses and policies, it will co-create alternative ways of addressing those citizens. Thus, developing, and implementing new policies that can counter gender-equality-repressive strategies and the policies of extreme populist parties. Representative democracies will consequently be reinvigorated, and the citizenship empowered, by a better safeguarding of gender equality.
UNTWIST’s main working strategy toward that end will consist of empowering (non-radical/populist) parties in Europe to improve their representation of the gender-based interests of the citizenry through the definition, enhancement and transfer of a policy recommendation handbook with evidence-based policy recommendations that: 1) help mainstream parties improve their substantive representation of sex- and gender-based needs and demands in ways that diminish the appeal of extreme populist messages (untwisting oppositional gender messages, particularly from right-wing populism); and 2) contributes to the widening horizon of gender expectations and overcomes current “gender fatigue” among citizens. The improvement in substantive democratic representation by these parties will decrease citizens' interest in the anti-feminist messages of radical or populist parties.
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