This talk, after reviewing the often-underexplored role of gender in researching illiberalism, discusses two case studies of how inhabitants of a village in Hungary, at the bank of the largest, ‘sweet water’ lake in Europe, Lake Balaton, resisted replacing a forest with a fuel station and resistance to the illiberal transformation of higher education. The cases illustrate that when neoliberal forces hijack the narratives of progress and modernity, local networks can work as a site of resistance if they ally.
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