Articles by Elena Pavan

March 11, 2024

🔮 Varieties of antigender politics: applying a contextual lens

Elena Pavan

Despite their shared antigenderism, populist radical-right parties’ contestation of gender and sexual equality forms a continuum rather than being homogenous across countries. Susanne Reinhardt, Annett Heft, and Elena Pavan argue that varieties of antigenderism are best understood through a party’s societal context, ideology, and voter expectations

Elena Pavan

Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento

Elena's research looks at the nexus between digital media and social movements particularly in the field of feminist and LGBTQIA* mobilisations.

In her work, she combines social movement and gender studies, network analysis and big data approaches to investigate collective participation processes in the hybrid social space.

She directs the Italian team of the EU H2020 project CCINDLE - Co-Creating Inclusive Intersectional Democratic Spaces Across Europe; and participates in the Italian team of the Horizon Europe project AI4Trust: AI-based-technologies for trustworthy solutions against disinformation.

Her work has been published in major international journals such as New Media and Society, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, Information Communication and Society, and Social Media+Society.

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