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The Family
Values agenda:
Rockford Institut
1976, Rockford, Ill.
Human Rights Gone Awry: Myths and Facts Regarding Internatinoal Human Rights Affecting Women and Children
Edwin Feulner- member and former president of MPS & current treasurer
1973, Washington D.C.
Sharon Slater, President of Family Watch International
Nigerian Bar Association Conference, 2011.
Lagos, Nigeria
1996-7, Rockford, Ill.
Productive economies, growth
(Re)productive sex
Sexual rights as dangerous to economic growth
A "backstage" neoliberal ideology, which demands and requires the availability of productive bodies directs the "front stage" operation and diseemination of Family Values
"sexual difference and the gender binary became basic tenets of the ideology of racial hierarchy and white supremacy during processes of nation formation in the West" (Kitch 2009)
The WCF was founded as a project of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society in 1997 by Allan Carlson and John Howard. The Howard Center describes itsef as a "center for research on the natural family"
The WCF describes itself as:
"an internatinoal network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 80 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the "seedbed" of civil society"
WCF is also supported by the Heritage Foundation which has been considered to be one of the most influential conservative research organizations in the US since the Reagan presidency
The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 by Edwin Feulner who was the former president and current treasurer of the Mont Pelerin Society
Heteropatriarchy - "the social power structure that creates and maintains the heterosexist binary of masculinity and femininity and the associated expectations (gender performances) determined to biological sex" (Elder 2003)
"The world homosexual itself seemed to conjure up some anxieties about miscegenation, as the "barbarously hybrid word" was a mix of Latin and Greek, even referring to "shades of gender" and "sexual half-breeds" (Jackson 2011)
Formed in 1947 under the leadership of Albert Hunold and Friedrich August von Hayek in order to strategize against what Hayek described as the threat posed to elite control and capitalism due to the rise of socialism post-WWII
Participants in the first meeting in Geneva included neoliberal intellectuals in the US and Europe
Discussions aimed to reinvigorate liberalism - creation of term "neoliberalism"
Developed strategy involving the establishment of anti-socialist centers of knowledge that would be capable of producing and disseminating neoliberal knowledge (the advocacy think tank) in any subject area
Plehwe and Walpen (2006:31)
1. To show how neoliberal ideology materially supports, and is connected to, Family Values organizations and understand how FV is constituted by, and reconstitutes, western hegemony
Founders of the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society and the World Congress of Families, Carlson and Howard had previously established the neoliberal think tank - the Rockford Institute - in 1976.
Carlson and Howard also were members of the Mont Pelerin Society
Heritage Foundation founder, Edwin Feulner, is a former president of the MPS and its current treasurer
2. To show why the Family Values must be taken seriously as a threat to social justice along multiple axes of difference
Neoliberalism - implemented in 1980s by Thatcher & Reagan as a "radical confrontation" to state-regulated economics of Soviet Union
Globalisation - emerged as the "rhetorical term used to describe imperial designs in the remaking of global coloniality"
Western hegemony is "held together by two pillars of enunciation: the racial and patriarchal foundation of knowledge without which the colonial matrix of power would not have been possible to be established"
(120)
Discourse is a key site for the analysis of ideology in the context of globalisation (Fairclough)
Neoliberal control over knowledge occurs in networks of intellectuals and think tanks, constituting key sites in the analysis of agents and structures of neoliberal globalisation and globalisation of neoliberalism (Plehwe & Walpen 2006: 33)
Racial difference & white supremacy
Gender difference & white male superiority
Superiority of western civilization, liberalism & Christianity
Heteropatriarchy
Heteronormativity
Neoliberalism
Family Values largely driven by conservative intellectuals and organisations subscribing to, and promoting, Christian values in US and international politics
Designing and advocating social policy which upholds: