New media, nationhood and the anti-gender kaleidoscope

Abstract

This discussion article highlights how the contributions to the special issue shed different light on one of the most striking features of anti-genderism: its capacity to cut across particularities within and between countries, articulating disperse grievances and demands around a shared field of resonances, which is at once transnational and local. Two interrelated axes exist: the pivotal scaling function that the empty signifier of ‘the nation’ plays in the anti-genderism register in Poland, Brazil and the United States and the way new media have afforded, in different ways, the construction of this image of the enemy other as a palpable, enduring threat.