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Sara Kalm

Sara Kalm

Director of Third Cycle Studies | Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer | Qualified Teaching Practitioner

Sara Kalm

Transcalar Activism Contesting the Liberal International Order: The Case of the World Congress of Families

Author

  • Sara Kalm
  • Anna Meeuwisse

Summary, in English

This article explores transnational anti-gender networking promoting “the natural family.” We focus on the World Congress of Families (WCF) and investigate how it is organized transnationally. We draw on international relations theory on challenges to the liberal international order as well as on theories on transcalar activism. The empirical material includes observations from two conferences and material produced by the WCF itself. We discuss the WCF’s role in relation to political polarization, and we also analyze it as a social structure: its actor constellations and new forms of activism. The analysis shows that strategic networking with elites as well as grassroots has rendered the WCF a significant player in global politics.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • School of Social Work
  • Civil Society and Social Movements

Publishing year

2023-02-07

Language

English

Pages

556-579

Publication/Series

Social Politics

Volume

30

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1072-4745