Domesticating global panics: anti-gender framing in Poland and Spain

The Spanish and Polish right wing are strongly influenced by Catholic Church and both countries share a
strong Catholic tradition that is linked to the construction of national belonging. Catholicism also
remains the largest religious confession in both societies too (Pew Research Center 2017; GUS 2016).
However, despite these and other similarities, the anti- gender, anti- choice and anti- LGBTQ* mobiliz
ations in Poland and in Spain have had different schedules and levels of success. They differ in regards to
the the totalitarian legacy, the role of nationalism (competing civic and ethnic- nationalism in Poland,
competing multi- nationalisms in Spain), or the popularity and political influence of the Catholic Church
in both countries. The questions we will address are: Why Catholic right wing sexual politics have been
in Poland more successful, while in Spain they fail? What role does religion and nation plays to mobiliz e
masses under a common (bio)political agenda? What is the impact of the legacy of, relevantly, fascism
and communism for contemporary sexual politics? In order to answer these questions we will adopt the
comparative perspective and focus on how the domestic context frames and performs different
rhetorics of crises and moral panics with similar (global) arguments and actors, but different emphasis
and schedules.